"Suzie-Q" wrote in message
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- Suzie-Q wrote:
- My plumbing pipes run in the crawl space under my house. Recently
- a pipe broke and flooded the crawl space. I turned off the water
- and pumped out the crawl space. I also put a fan down there to help
- (albeit not much) to dry the space out. The pipe that burst is at
- the far end of the house, about as far from the access "hole" as
- you can get. It's under the kitchen.
-
- Meanwhile, the plumbers keep telling me it's too muddy for them to
- fix the pipe. I said, "part of the job, getting muddy." They said
- it's too muddy for them to do whatever they have to do to fix the
- pipe, implying that the tools or whatever would slip or sink or
- something.
-
- I'm hoping someone here can tell me if they're really being honest
- with me or they're just putting me off. They've already told me
they're
- very busy -- they've had to fire a couple of guys. And my repair
won't
- be a high-profit job.
-
- Timeline:
- --Water turned off completely on Thursday
- --Crawlspace pumped out on Friday (done about 6 p.m.)
- --Crawlspace drying out (with weak fan) Saturday-Tuesday
- --Tuesday afternoon I was told it was still too muddy
-
- Should I look for another plumber? Are the guys being honest with me?
-
- Going without water this long has been a minor nightmare, as you can
- imagine!
-
- Thanks in advance,


- Sounds like there is no vapor barrier on the floor of the crawl space.
- See if you can find someone to put that down.

If you mean plastic sheeting, yes, there is some down there. I don't
know how much or how much area it covers.

- You don't say how high the crawl space is.
- That might have been a concern too.

Not very high. About 18 inches.
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an 18" muddy crawl space. and they are not rushing to get down there.
snakes and broken glass probably also?