It's the drain pain that never ends...

Maybe tomorrow afternoon. Plumbers came today and busted up the floor again. I've been pressing my dear husband to take the horns on managing this, though I did come up with the list of folks for him to call. Blessedly, he arrived home as the plumbers backed into our driveway. This time they brought their big truck, and later, the boss made an appearance.

They managed to pull out some of the broken snake line pieces (turns out there were at least three down there), but they have to return tomorrow to replace more pipe, as they found a crack in some joint in a pipe that runs under the floor very near our boiler.... which is going to absolutely need to be serviced and cleaned after this whole ordeal.

I'm still not totally clear what pipe line this is we're into now, but I think it's the kitchen drain... or something connecting it to the main, it's all getting well over my head. So at one point they asked us not to turn on the kitchen water, and my husband turned off the water valves under the sink to ensure nobody would use the water accidently. After the plumbers left for the night, he turned them back on to discover that the water pressure was greatly diminished to our kitchen sink faucet. We're not sure what the heck is causing that...so I'll have to drag the plumbers upstairs tomorrow after they're done with the drain to see what's going on with that. My guess is either the valves are so old they just happened to crap out when he turned them off, or something about the open line downstairs is effecting the water pressure...how,
I can't even fathom.