The rest of the story....

Well, the plumber just left.

When he emptied the main drain, he found a 4-inch piece of wood.

Apparently a worker must have dropped it, kicked it, whatever, in there during construction. The sewerage was slowly backing up until...the inevitable happened. The washing machine was draining, and when there was no place for the water to go, it went to the next avaialable outlet -- the toilet.

Yikes.

At least that problem is solved...and the head of customer service with this builder is coming to do a walk-through with us on Thursday. None of our punch list stuff got done since closing, so that will be addressed on Thursday as well.

And so it goes...I'm still open to whatever lesson presents itself from this...

Maybe the lesson is that we should be sending our laundry out instead of doing it ourselves...