Emergency plumbing projects in a 115 year old building, one of the few times I’d rather be kerning.
@Okay Our sewer has backed up into our basement twice in the last two weeks during heavy rainstorms. Old houses are fun.

@JTDType @Okay the year after we bought this apartment, first floor and basement level in a 100yo building, this neighborhood flooded so badly that we ended up having to tear out all the drywall downstairs and replace with FEMA help

previous owners had, I guess, felt like the drainage in the basement is too unsightly, and so tiled the thing over

so I feel you both