Does your basement have this?
I never thought we’d live in a house, and I never even imagined living in a house with a poop hole in the basement. Life is full of surprises, and so is this house, unfortunately. Mostly wet surprises, like the ceiling leak.
Does your living space have holes that bad things come out of? Does it have ants or mice or silverfish or those house centipedes that look like clumps of hair walking around? Do your floors or walls or radiators make noises? Does your furniture stick out in ways that seem personally designed to hurt you?
And any plumbers reading this - WHY do we need the poop hole? So many places seem to not have a large hole that poop comes out of. I’m acting like I’m cool with this, but I really wish it weren’t on the list of things I’m supposed to be cool with.
I hope you have an ok week and that everything you flush down the toilet stays there.
I'm extremely impressed at your ability to even pretend that you're calm about this. If a poop hole is a necessary thing then I'm fairly certain there should be a cap on it somehow. I know there is a end of a large pipe in my downstairs bathroom and it has a cap on it. I worry about this pipe sometimes but most of the time I try to pretend it's not there. It's part of the structure. Someone put it there out of some sort of necessity. But it has a cap on it. I believe you deserve a cap on your basement hole. Nothing should be coming out of a hole like that especially not what's coming out of it. Find someone to help.
Here, with bated breath, for the answers from the plumbers about why a poop hole is a necessity in these modern times. (And rooting for a solution!)