The Latest Fix-up

This house has been so fun to fix up but this time- it was just annoying. Shortly after moving in we noticed that our dryer vent was not working and the clothes were not drying. At first I thought it was our actual dryer so I unplugged it from the wall and put a sock on the end of the vent. It dried just fine????? So we figured there must be a clog somewhere in the pipe. We looked outside under our deck and saw two ventilation pipes side by side. Our basement is finished and there is another set of laundry hook ups down there. We turned on the downstairs dryer and one pipe vented and the other didn't so by process of elimination we assumed the one that did not vent must be for the upstairs laundry (keep in mind that when you assume it means you make an ASS our of U and ME!!) If there was a clog we were going to try to get it out ourselves....we hooked a few broom sticks together with a wire brush taped to the end and stuck it down what we thought was our laundry pipe....(the brush came out clean but the laundry would still not dry -we were so confused!!! I put the stupid sock back on and after a while I finally got sick of the sauna in the laundry room and called a guy to come and snake the pipe. He came to check it out and asked which pipe was ours and I told him it was the one on the right (because the one the left worked when the downstairs dryer was on). He snaked the pipe and said it was clean?????? So then he stuck a camera down in the wall to see if the pipe was hooked up right at the connection to the wall.... nothing. He suggested to cut a hole in the sheet rock next the the pipe and look inside the wall to check things out.

Well as you can see here is the hole by the pipe in the wall. It was connected just fine and there was no clog??????? So we thought it may be a little further down the pipe, on the other side of the laundry room is the kitchen pantry so logically the next step was this

YEP we riped out three tiles and cut through the floor boards to get to the pipe!!! And guess what??? There was no clog in the pipe and it was connected just fine!!!!! So then the only thing left to do was this

YEP we cut a hole in the ceiling downstairs to get to the pipe a little further down. And guess what??? There was no clog in the pipe and it was connected just fine!!!!!! In fact after a LONG investigation we found out that this was not even the right pipe. Under the deck about five more feet down and out of sight from the other two was another vent!!!! THIS ONE WAS OUR VENT!!!!! The other two were 1. The downstairs dryer and 2. The fan in the downstairs bathroom!!!!! AAAAAAAAGGGGGGGGUUUUUUUHHHHHH!!! So we snaked the right vent pipe, got the clog out and the dryer worked just fine :) Now we are left with two holes to patch and paint and three tiles to replace. All because we didn't do our homework good enough. We sure learned our lesson on this one!!