And I never thought I would need one

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  1. cpf

    cpf <s>Heckler</s>

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    A shop vac that also does "wet."

    Septic line backed up, flooding basement? No prob! Just haul in the 1980s-era shop vac from... the shop, dump out all the random sludge, scrape off what's left of the filter, and fire 'er up. Problem solved :D

    Now how the f I'm gonna get the liquid+random sludge back upstairs (water weighs wayyy too much IMO). Too bad we didn't have 2 shop vacs, then I could just step up the stairs one by one, going from one to the other. Or a really long hose, hmm.

    I guess I should also figure out why the floor drain is literally spouting drainwater, but that's not important now :p
     
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  2. Zeke

    Zeke [BB] Sub Admin Sub Admin

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    wut
     
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  3. Whitefang

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    His basement flooded and now he's using some pirate-era pump.
     
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  4. Teddi

    Teddi Well-Known Member Bear

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    Yeah, basically it's an old vacuum to do it. The old one I had also did that sort of thing.
     
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  5. Biff Johnston

    Biff Johnston <MARQUEE><h1 style="color:Green">[BB] Grand Master

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    They arn't really old vacuums considering they sell vacuums now that suck up water, we bought one a year ago for my grandma because her house was probably like CPF's, highly reliant on a sump pump.
     
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  6. Dan

    Dan Active Member

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    Aren't 90% of shop vac wet/dry? Where did you find one that only does dry

    P.S. Lua is premade C you were wrong I was right.
     
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  7. cpf

    cpf <s>Heckler</s>

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    I never said it wasn't.
     
    cpf, Apr 18, 2009
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