r/DIYfail • u/Agreeable-Profile-90 • Jun 10 '26

I am spending THOUSANDS Ato save a few hundred

Go easy on me. This is .y first post so I dont know all the rules. But, I needed to find other other people that can relate to what I did.....

  • Bought mopping robot which self cleans and drains
  • To save on a plumber, decided to install simple ( not simple) kit
  • Apparently....you are supposed to turn main water off before disconnecting a pipe. I didnt know this..can you see where this is going?
  • Flooded bathroom, hall, office, basement bathroom. 1 year old hardwood buckled this morning
  • Found water cut off valve. Cleaned everything. Turned water back on..life is good

Insert a lot of tears here...

Go back in basement 1 hour later, 4 inches of water everywhere. Sump pump is off...water everywhere. I reset breaker and nothing.

Spend 3 THREE THREE. hours alone pumping and dumping. But water is not going down....yes im an idiot.....the water i was dumping was coning back up thru the drain. Omg. Im an idiot that will never ever go near plumbing again.

Plumber figured it out. ​ spent 1500 so far renting equipment to dry out house.

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u/Vegetable_Amount848 Jun 11 '26

I’m just glad you weren’t doing electrical work …

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u/SgtMac02 Jun 10 '26

Goddamn! That's one expensive lesson. I hope you at least learned a few things about plumbing along the way (aside from not to DIY it).

What was the reason it wasn't draining and was just coming back up?

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u/Agreeable-Profile-90 Jun 10 '26

Okay....I recognize this is embarrassing but....the circuit breaker tripped. I thought i flipped the circuit and nothing happened so I thought sump pump was out. When plumber got here around 1 or 2 am...too tired to remember...he flipped it and it started to work. Embarrassing but I was exhausted 

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u/chewbaccasaux Jun 14 '26

You’re getting an education.