In our version (based on a true story), a happy, unsuspecting woman (played by Janet) puts a load of laundry in the automatic washer and a normal amount of laundry soap. She returns to the laundry room shortly after and with a shout of utter terror, sees water on the floor and oozing white foam emanating from the wall!! Now THAT is a plot twist. She calls her husband (played by Scott) and together they do battle with the oozing malevolent white substance that seems to know no end. Out it pours, forming a growing white mound creeping for the door... With broom, bucket, rags, with bare hands, they battle for minute after minute... until the tide slowly turns and the foam is beaten back and recedes into its lair of pipes mysteriously plumbed in this house....
Well, OK, maybe not a killer idea for a box office hit. But, it happened to us!
Our laundry room was originally meant to have a utility sink, but it was never put in. The drain pipe intended for the sink was just taped over, and this was joined to the drain from the washer. There was a blockage in the overall drainage outside. The water here is extremely soft, so a little detergent makes mountains of foam. Join these together and you have a recipe for danger! The laundry discharge built up behind the blockage and the foam pressure burst through the tape, oozing out of the wall (see stills from the movie trailer below).
We have now fixed the blockage and use much less soap. Life has returned to normal in our pleasant town (until the next visit of The Foam!!!)
Foam oozing out of wall ready to swallow up unsuspecting laundry users
Close up of The Foam, before our frontal attack. It was touch and go for whole minutes. There was talk of evacuation, but we kept at it and beat it back!
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