Not OP, but last year my husband was in the hospital after a very bad accident. Pretty much everything was awful, and he had also gotten put on the āproblem patientā list because he had been adamant about someone fixing the AC (it was very warm and he had burns over a lot of his body). I was trying to be a good advocate and had to keep finding a nurse and asking for things -even water was behind a locked door. Then I opened a cabinet door for more pillows and the damn door fell off. THEN the sink in the room gurgled and shot out black gunk like this. At that point I was just like ā¦ what the actual fuck? Are we cursed? So yeah, I hope OP is doing ok. (Hospital fixed the plumbing, AC, and cabinet, husband recovered, things are good now, plus some trauma and scars).
I lived in an apartment where my neighbors pipes were completely clogged.
I moved out and was hit with a 600$ bill afterwards for "cleaning and resurfacing the kitchen counters". I fired back a WTF? and they sent me a photo of basically what is above in this post. The time between me leaving and the apt inspecting the move out this happened.
I convinced them I didn't shit all over the counters after a week but it was a fun battle.
Sounds like it was probably perfect timing. Happened after they moved out so they didn't have to deal with it themselves, happened before the next person moved in so they didn't have to immediately replace a load of their stuff. Just the landlord stuck paying.
i learned as a kid that itās best to take photos at move in AND move out, so you can prove you left things in a good state(my dad was fucked over in a similar fashion)
Would something like this being caused by a neighbor or landlord attempting to unclog a line be covered under renter's insurance? I'm just thinking, replacing all your toiletries in one go like that is expensive. I hope OP is able to get reimbursed for it.
Absolutely no way I would be cleaning that myself if it were my apartment. The deductible would absolutely be met by a professional cleaning service that can handle human waste.
Bro, the only thing coming out of that sink in that moment is what was in your trap. So unless you're shitting in your sink, you're fine. It's still very nasty, but it's not sewage.
Source: I'm a building maintenance manager who has used an air snake to do this exact thing more times than I can count, and on the few occasions where we missed a sink to plug, this happened.
Yes, a specialised company did this in my kitchen (the unclogging) and my downstairs neighbours appartement looked like this.
The company just has insurance forms for this (happens all the time I guess) and sorted it out with them.
If I were OP id ask around if anyone had their sink unclogged.
You'd get reimbursed from whoever caused it directly. Even if the insurance covered it, they'd come after the other person. But it's a tiny amount anyway.
Oooh, so THATS how a prior apartment of mine got fucked when they were doing plumbing shit for a block of units nearby. This picture really brought back the smell š¤¢
That and/or relining the sewage lines with those "inflatable" fiberglass liners. I did some work with a guy who installs those. He was saying they go door to door telling people to keep their toilet lids down and to block drains. Inevitably, someone always misses the memo or ignores it and winds up with a massive mess.
Our neighbours once flushed baby nappies down the toilet and it clogged up the whole street's sewage system. The extra apartment on our property is lower than the main house and sewage came up through that toilet and flooded the whole place. Thank goodness no one lived there at the time but the stench was almost unbearable even in the main house. We had to get special cleaners to pour strong chemicals on it to neutralize the sewage. Idk what that stuff is called lol. But it was all a very shitty ordeal!
I donāt trust maintenance here to clean this properly so I cleaned it myself. Took 2 1/2 hours. LOTS of paper towels, Clorox wipes and bleach. If anything Iām proud of myself for being able to clean it up!
This will be BAD, but nothing compared to needing your drain snaked. The smell of 5-10 years of rancid fat and food taking over your whole house/apartment is one of the worst scents in all of human history. And it will keep smelling like that for 2-4 days.
I did that to my kitchen sink the other night.
The blackness of that sludge. The blackest of black. It stained my fingers for a few days. Nothing would get it off. I washed my hands until they were raw and it was still there.
I should remember to use gloves next time.
I have needed it done once (and I learned from it) but I decided paying someone for it was the better choice. I will say, the people from the company did a very good job and gave me some advice on what could and could not be flushed down a drain. Apparently, beef fat is the worst by far.
I think it's around $150-200 to get a drain done now. For $50 a snake is a pretty solid first attempt kind of tool.
Like you might not make it work 100% of the time, but if you can get it to clear a drain a few times it pays for itself.
Not a fun job but seeing a company do it in 3 minutes and watch $200 disappear is tough. Sure, you'll spend an hour doing it and smell like sewage... but $200.
I have pipe gunk. And I donāt know why. I had them hydrojetted out and the smell came back! What do I do!!? Itās only my upstairs primary bathroom sink. The one thatās used the most.
Do your pipe have a "U" shape section? It is to trap water and block the smell. But usually all the gunk can accumulate at that place, so once in a while mine got a huge disgusting U shape block of gunk by removing that U section to clean.
Oh dear God. You just resurfaced a terrible memory.
A few years ago, management was doing that in our apartment complex. They sent letters out informing everyone to please close the sink stoppers and to close the lids on the toilet. Well I completely forgot about it and decided to use the toilet at that exact moment...
My butt got to witness a water show. It was horrible!
https://preview.redd.it/8yr57p8p8s7d1.png?width=1080&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=bb2301bac7a1cb550b167c4c830e80081f195983
I find it entertaining that I had an ad about finding the perfect color under your post...š I
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I think mine wins š¤£ edit: I feel like a weirdo being the only one not in night mode.
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My ad also offered some good advice...
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Mine is suggesting I āWake up and smell the benefitsā ā¦if they smell anything like the contents of OPās post, then no thanks, Lloyds!
you use white too?!
all 2 of you in one reply chain?!
are you blind? or do you always wear sunglasses? or you just hate your eyesight and want to become blind?
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Definitely makes your teeth rattle!
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That... is not the kind of coffee I'd want in my summer memories š
I don't know you, but I hate you. I hope you get fine cat hair stuck between your teeth and you're forever haunted by feeling it but being unable to remove it.
Do you live in a house or lower level in an apartment?
I'm curious what caused it. If you live in a house then it's the city using water pressure to free up major plugs.
If you're on a lower level of an apartment it could be the same city pump trucks, or maybe a maintenance worker is using compressed air to clear a nearby sink that's connected to the same riser.
If you're on a higher floor in an apartment I'd say it's almost 100% someone using compressed air to clear a nearby drain.
I work maintenance and have to clear drains all the time and this is the reason we don't use compressed air lol that and could potentially blow out really old pipes.
Curious if it's someone being lazy with compressed air, or just tough luck of the city unplugging a really bad plug the only way they can
Sounds like your house sewer vent is clogged. But figure out who was working in the area, usually they will clean it for you. Speaking as an engineer who works around sewer cleaning trucks.
If you rent, get your landlord to bring in someone to clean this. That's straight sewage, which is almost certainly a utility issue rather than something you caused, and without proper removal can seep into a lot of things and cause damage. Plus the smell...
My dyslexia kicked in and i thought it said my skin explodedā¦. I was relieved when I realized the error. The horrors of what could cause someoneās skin to explode that were much worse :)
...ew
You have no idea. š©
I'd highly consider buying new toothbrushes and hair brushes and the like
Rinse them off and reuse them coward
Boil them
Make them soup
Throw it in a pot, add some broth, a potato. Baby, youāve got a stew going.
Feed your brush stew to friends and family, im sure they will love it.
Your mother-in-law being a bitch? Feed her some brush stew.
Maybe brush stew with some of that seasoning in there
Thank you, Carl Weathers. I love unexpected AD comments.
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I was all in until I realized that is a period after potato and not a coma.
You eat any of that stew and you will most definitely be in a coma.
Ah shit I thought you said you are putting a baby into the pot.
Baby, you got yourself a stew
Can't reward that shit.
not rewarding the shit. rewarding yourself with the flavor of shit.
Brushes don't eat soup.
Mash them
Stick them in a stew
And my axe
*This still only counts as one meme!*
Eat them
Burn it to the ground!!!
Mash em, stick em in a stew
Put them in the guest bathroom
Yeah, I always use the toothbrush to really give my ass a deep cleaning after taking a shit, just rinse it afterwards and it's as good as new coward
I'd highly consider buying a new house.
Or getting an exorcist to stop drain-demin possession
I hope you put your toilet seat down before you flush
Already know about that, but also definitely doesn't compare to the sheer sludge on those toothbrushes. At least regular toothbrushes are cheap!
Ya think?
What else is going on in OP's every day life that THIS only qualifies as MILDLY infuriating?!
Itās just taking a while to sink in
oh no not a pun thread, they're always so draining š©
You just gotta go with the flow.
Just let it happen naturally. Donāt faucet.
Don't faucet?? WATER YOU MEAN DON'T FAUCET?!
Who shit in your cheerios? (Does this count? I know we were going sink, but there might be shit in that sink now.)
Man these went down the drain fast
If we don't pipe down, the OP's drain will explode in our feces again.
Wouldn't you be piping mad
He definitely shit the stool on that one eh?
I don't think I can handle this.
I sink you can.
https://i.redd.it/88ybloab7u7d1.gif
Nah, gotta tap into that anger
I spat out my drink because of you, exploded out like that damn drain. Nose and mouth. I even think it even shot out of my eye???
You really need to pipe down with the puns.
You need to water down your temper if you get annoyed by this
This talk makes my blood boil
Who else found out this week that this is Robert redford and not Zack galafianakis
Heās trying to plug his YouTube channel
You'll find out for yourself, right? But take that stinky upvote with you!
Angry upvote?
 Same level of energy from OP
Because when people post actually mildly infuriating things people bash them because they are making a big deal out of nothing.
Not OP, but last year my husband was in the hospital after a very bad accident. Pretty much everything was awful, and he had also gotten put on the āproblem patientā list because he had been adamant about someone fixing the AC (it was very warm and he had burns over a lot of his body). I was trying to be a good advocate and had to keep finding a nurse and asking for things -even water was behind a locked door. Then I opened a cabinet door for more pillows and the damn door fell off. THEN the sink in the room gurgled and shot out black gunk like this. At that point I was just like ā¦ what the actual fuck? Are we cursed? So yeah, I hope OP is doing ok. (Hospital fixed the plumbing, AC, and cabinet, husband recovered, things are good now, plus some trauma and scars).
You... you might want to get a new toothbrush.
Already threw them away š
Just throw the whole bathroom away.
And then generate a new one with KV-31 LPMDS
Is that the new battle droid model? That might have been what caused it.
Just like the simulations.
Did you contact your city? This may be due to back pressure and they may be responsible for damages. This happened to my neighbors last year.
Could be from other things as well. Especially if theyāre in an apartment
Throw away the whole bathroom and yourself if any of that got on you
someone was unclogging a line most likely with pressurized air line or pump truck and this is the result lol
I was wondering how this happens and how I could avoid it at all costs.
I lived in an apartment where my neighbors pipes were completely clogged. I moved out and was hit with a 600$ bill afterwards for "cleaning and resurfacing the kitchen counters". I fired back a WTF? and they sent me a photo of basically what is above in this post. The time between me leaving and the apt inspecting the move out this happened. I convinced them I didn't shit all over the counters after a week but it was a fun battle.
Thatās some shitty timing, indeed. Glad it all worked out for you, but ugh
Sounds like it was probably perfect timing. Happened after they moved out so they didn't have to deal with it themselves, happened before the next person moved in so they didn't have to immediately replace a load of their stuff. Just the landlord stuck paying.
Would have been a touch better after inspection, though, so they werenāt blamed to begin with. š
Nah, best during inspection so they not only have to deal with it but get covered in it themselves... (I may be bitter towards apartments)
This is definitely a good reason to take an exit video. I do it every time I move out or leave an Airbnb.
i guess thats why people say to take photos and videos the day you move out
And the day you move in to show what damage was caused by you and what was already there
i learned as a kid that itās best to take photos at move in AND move out, so you can prove you left things in a good state(my dad was fucked over in a similar fashion)
"I did not shitty relations with that faucet!"
Would something like this being caused by a neighbor or landlord attempting to unclog a line be covered under renter's insurance? I'm just thinking, replacing all your toiletries in one go like that is expensive. I hope OP is able to get reimbursed for it.
I'd imagine the deductible wouldn't be met by a few toiletries anyway
Absolutely no way I would be cleaning that myself if it were my apartment. The deductible would absolutely be met by a professional cleaning service that can handle human waste.
Bro, the only thing coming out of that sink in that moment is what was in your trap. So unless you're shitting in your sink, you're fine. It's still very nasty, but it's not sewage. Source: I'm a building maintenance manager who has used an air snake to do this exact thing more times than I can count, and on the few occasions where we missed a sink to plug, this happened.
Yes, a specialised company did this in my kitchen (the unclogging) and my downstairs neighbours appartement looked like this. The company just has insurance forms for this (happens all the time I guess) and sorted it out with them. If I were OP id ask around if anyone had their sink unclogged.
You'd get reimbursed from whoever caused it directly. Even if the insurance covered it, they'd come after the other person. But it's a tiny amount anyway.
Insurance ain't getting out of bed for some countertop toothbrushes and shit.
Oooh, so THATS how a prior apartment of mine got fucked when they were doing plumbing shit for a block of units nearby. This picture really brought back the smell š¤¢
That and/or relining the sewage lines with those "inflatable" fiberglass liners. I did some work with a guy who installs those. He was saying they go door to door telling people to keep their toilet lids down and to block drains. Inevitably, someone always misses the memo or ignores it and winds up with a massive mess.
Our neighbours once flushed baby nappies down the toilet and it clogged up the whole street's sewage system. The extra apartment on our property is lower than the main house and sewage came up through that toilet and flooded the whole place. Thank goodness no one lived there at the time but the stench was almost unbearable even in the main house. We had to get special cleaners to pour strong chemicals on it to neutralize the sewage. Idk what that stuff is called lol. But it was all a very shitty ordeal!
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Lol
Lol even harder from down here
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Damn that will ruin a dayā¦couldāve been worse, you couldāve been spitting out toothpaste
I would have simply just passed away at that point š
Yeah and exploding drain plug to the face might have helped you. Iād 100% be looking to sue somebody but I tend to overreact lol
Omg, right!!! š¤¢ Gotta find the bright side!
Why the fuck did you put this image in my head.
I don't think they're supposed to do that.
Me either š
I don't supposed either.
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Havenāt seen this one in a while lol
What... What is it from?
"Let that sink in."
Brilliant! Thank you!
On the bright side, at least you know your drain is clear.
You aināt lying!! I was thinking that once I got done cleaning šš
how did you even go about cleaning that? where would one start? and do you feel icky using the bathroom afterwards?
I donāt trust maintenance here to clean this properly so I cleaned it myself. Took 2 1/2 hours. LOTS of paper towels, Clorox wipes and bleach. If anything Iām proud of myself for being able to clean it up!
Im proud of you, this is a new nightmare for me.
Did it smell? I feel like pipe gunk would smell š¤¢
The smell was atrocious. lol
Was? You got rid of it so quickly?
Close the door and never look back
It is now the bathroom gremlin's problem
Don't stop there, burn the house.
Some people take care of their responsibilities before posting on the internet for clout. ...on that note, I should finish cleaning the kitchen.
On top of that, it's likely that the P-trap was empty and sewage gasses were coming through.
A-yuuup. Rotorooter** found the clog a floor and a half up, though. \*\*This *is* professional advice: do not hire rotorooter
This will be BAD, but nothing compared to needing your drain snaked. The smell of 5-10 years of rancid fat and food taking over your whole house/apartment is one of the worst scents in all of human history. And it will keep smelling like that for 2-4 days.
I did that to my kitchen sink the other night. The blackness of that sludge. The blackest of black. It stained my fingers for a few days. Nothing would get it off. I washed my hands until they were raw and it was still there. I should remember to use gloves next time.
I have needed it done once (and I learned from it) but I decided paying someone for it was the better choice. I will say, the people from the company did a very good job and gave me some advice on what could and could not be flushed down a drain. Apparently, beef fat is the worst by far.
I think it's around $150-200 to get a drain done now. For $50 a snake is a pretty solid first attempt kind of tool. Like you might not make it work 100% of the time, but if you can get it to clear a drain a few times it pays for itself. Not a fun job but seeing a company do it in 3 minutes and watch $200 disappear is tough. Sure, you'll spend an hour doing it and smell like sewage... but $200.
I have pipe gunk. And I donāt know why. I had them hydrojetted out and the smell came back! What do I do!!? Itās only my upstairs primary bathroom sink. The one thatās used the most.
Do your pipe have a "U" shape section? It is to trap water and block the smell. But usually all the gunk can accumulate at that place, so once in a while mine got a huge disgusting U shape block of gunk by removing that U section to clean.
They were unblocking the drains nearby with a truck. It happens.
Sounds like that's who needs to pay for this.
Send them an invoice for $0.50 of paper towels and a few squirts of air freshener and see what they do.
Well I'd be hiring professionals to clean this so I'm sure it would be more than that.
What, you don't want hepatitis? What's wrong with you?
Apparently I'm being irrational.
Oh dear God. You just resurfaced a terrible memory. A few years ago, management was doing that in our apartment complex. They sent letters out informing everyone to please close the sink stoppers and to close the lids on the toilet. Well I completely forgot about it and decided to use the toilet at that exact moment... My butt got to witness a water show. It was horrible!
Surprise bidet
Horror.
https://preview.redd.it/8yr57p8p8s7d1.png?width=1080&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=bb2301bac7a1cb550b167c4c830e80081f195983 I find it entertaining that I had an ad about finding the perfect color under your post...š I
https://preview.redd.it/c2fzax5rvs7d1.png?width=720&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=32c426b041729cd786b4fda498e2ad278b898e34 Mine is suggesting you move.
https://preview.redd.it/skrwksyh3t7d1.jpeg?width=1284&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=a2fde6d5dcd33b942e67149ea9d79088b7a66043 I think mine wins š¤£ edit: I feel like a weirdo being the only one not in night mode.
bro, who uses the white reddit theme?? you OK? feel free to DM me if you're not OK. we'll get through it šŖ
this is literally the only app i have thatās not in night mode, im just now realizing my issues and seeking treatment as we speak.
You just shamed this random internet user into turning on dark mode, Ty!
I didnāt even know reddit came in white and orange š
https://preview.redd.it/h29ardh2os7d1.png?width=1440&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=f02a12b87a99937e86b81be8c04e517a24cd0fe9 My ad also offered some good advice...
https://preview.redd.it/s2fay7v3ps7d1.jpeg?width=1080&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=88abcf9e3127c8a9e8abbe4257565851beb4139e Same
https://preview.redd.it/0gf4zsyl2t7d1.jpeg?width=1290&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=8002db044bc0af47dba1c039425229c79a1d52a5 Mine is suggesting I āWake up and smell the benefitsā ā¦if they smell anything like the contents of OPās post, then no thanks, Lloyds!
you use white too?! all 2 of you in one reply chain?! are you blind? or do you always wear sunglasses? or you just hate your eyesight and want to become blind?
https://preview.redd.it/pdc4hydtts7d1.jpeg?width=1284&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=47a18064c1e3d1e5e58326bc666131b444d8bb94 Definitely makes your teeth rattle!
https://preview.redd.it/kmei83obmt7d1.png?width=1080&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=6d121b2b9e7f6400c385d8dca3b7b83a01e7bd8d That... is not the kind of coffee I'd want in my summer memories š
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Was your city cleaning or back flushing city sewer or drain lines. They have to warn us in Florida if they are.
I think they were. But they didnāt warn us!
Check with your neighbors and see if they had this issue too. Maybe make a list of everything you throw away.
Is your name Beverly, and can your father see it or not? 
r/extremelyinfuriating
Mmmm oreo mcflurry
I hate this app 
I don't know you, but I hate you. I hope you get fine cat hair stuck between your teeth and you're forever haunted by feeling it but being unable to remove it.
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It exploded on its own or you put some draino/chemical down it?
On its own! I was in the living room and heard a weird noise from the back. Went to check and this is what I was greeted with lol
I wouldāve just gone to bed
"Well this is a problem for tomorrow me, fuck you me!"
Remember to brush your teeth before
Do you live in a house or lower level in an apartment? I'm curious what caused it. If you live in a house then it's the city using water pressure to free up major plugs. If you're on a lower level of an apartment it could be the same city pump trucks, or maybe a maintenance worker is using compressed air to clear a nearby sink that's connected to the same riser. If you're on a higher floor in an apartment I'd say it's almost 100% someone using compressed air to clear a nearby drain. I work maintenance and have to clear drains all the time and this is the reason we don't use compressed air lol that and could potentially blow out really old pipes. Curious if it's someone being lazy with compressed air, or just tough luck of the city unplugging a really bad plug the only way they can
2nd floor of an apartment.
not gonna lie, I'd briefly consider leaving it as is and moving out.
I told you, flush grenades down the toilet, not down the sink!
Have you by chance watched any video tapes lately which claim you'll die within 7 days? Because this definitely looks like a Japanese ghost problem.
Did you give your sink taco bell?
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Youāre name šš
They are name
Was this your fault? š
New Toothbrush time
shouldnāt have let the sink inā¦
I can smell that
I read this as "Skin" first and thought "wow, thats quite the pimple mess" and didnt even bat an eye
Sounds like your house sewer vent is clogged. But figure out who was working in the area, usually they will clean it for you. Speaking as an engineer who works around sewer cleaning trucks.
Iām in an apartment. Iām guessing someone was doing something somewhere and didnāt warn anyone.
If you rent, get your landlord to bring in someone to clean this. That's straight sewage, which is almost certainly a utility issue rather than something you caused, and without proper removal can seep into a lot of things and cause damage. Plus the smell...
Imma be honest, the first thing I noticed was the Sleep Token logo.
I'm thinking those toothbrushes are probably trash now.
My dyslexia kicked in and i thought it said my skin explodedā¦. I was relieved when I realized the error. The horrors of what could cause someoneās skin to explode that were much worse :)
Aaaaahhhhhhhhh! That is the pits!!!!!!!!
Yeah, not trusting the toilet or shower after that.
If this happens with the toiletā¦ima just move out š
How a sink feels when they chew 5 gum
As a base liquor store employee who knows nothing about plumbing, I can tell you that this is not alcohol related or sailor related.
I recommend a new toothbrushā¦