About 2 weeks ago we had some neighborhood kid come to fix our plumbing. He had a sign at the grocery store saying he did all home and car repairs for $5 an hour. You cant beat that price. We had a leaking pipe in the basement and a few other problems with the plumbing. He fixed everything, but since he left our water is real dirty looking and there is toilet paper coming out of the faucets, and brown crud that looks like s*it. The water tastes like s*it too. I had to remove those screens on the ends of the faucets because the toilet paper was plugging them. We called him back and he came and checked and said everything is fine. He said the stuff coming out of the faucets is normal after working on pipes. We thought it was nothing to worry about then.
A couple days ago our neighbor called and complained that water was running from our lawn and flooding his basement. We went out in the ard and saw water gushing out of our lawn, and it ended up being a flooded septic. That never happened before now, so we called this kid again and he said that septics fill up when they get old and he can fix it by putting a sump pump in it. That sounded good to me, and he said he will begin next week. Yesterday we got a call from the water company. They said that in the past 2 weeks we have used 138,000 gallons of water and were wondering if there was a leak. They said that on Monday they will send someone to check for leaks,
I'm wondering if this has something to do with the pipe repairs this kid did? What could he have done wrong. In the last few days there is more toilet paper coming out of the faucets, especially after we flush the toilet. Our shower sprayer wont work at all anymore.
Frank G.