DIY

10-minute project: People often ask me where I get my ideas for DIY, and I can truly say they come to me like a bolt of lightening. Like the idea for this project. Assistant home editor, Julia Black, and I were standing in the Chatelaine test kitchen the other day dying doilies with beet juice (stay tuned for our September issue for more on that!) when I looked up at the clock that hangs in the kitchen and said to her:

Lately, every time it rains, the drain in our basement bathroom backs up. One very rainy night last week we called in a plumber to see if he could figure out what was wrong. He put a tiny camera down the drain and through the pipes as my husband and I looked on anxiously. “Wow” the guy said as the camera snaked its way under our basement floor. “Clearly a do-it-yourself job.”

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