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Originally Posted by GatorgalstuckinGA
(Post 1976387)
lol at almostheaven...a bit home improvmevent obsessed are we LOL
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Just a little. Perhaps I should post this bit on the lighter side, but, true story that happened just this New Year's weekend, reposted from another of my sites...
My husband went down to the downstairs bath Saturday night around 1 a.m. and found a flood. Water was dripping from all around the two light fixtures. I got on the phone to the home warranty folks and the repair company called around 2 a.m. Said he'd be on the phone to his plumbers between 8 and 9 a.m. and see which one he could get out to us. All this while hubby was out in the dark with a flashlight, bailing the water from over the manhole cover and turning the water off...as we don't have a shutoff valve to the house. :(
Well, the guy gets here around 12:30 p.m. Sunday before New Year's...I was amazed. But we had to shut the power down in there last night, and it's on the same breaker as the furnace! YIKES! So we bundled up good Saturday night. I stuck the dehumidifier in there, and by the morning, a lot of it was dried up, so we turned the heat back on and warmed up while we waited. We have a drop celing in there as new pipes were installed before we bought the place, and some of the sheetrock had been taken out, so they just put in a drop a couple inches lower from the sheetrock. You could see where the pipes run. So they were all along the wall and up the wall between the laundry room and bath. But we had to pull down more sheetrock to find the leak, so I had a major mess to cleanup that afternoon, because there was ONE pipe that ran in the center of the floor. The hot water pipe. They didn't run it with the cold, through the wall, and covered in the sheetrock, you couldn't see it. They also ran it right up against the upstairs floor, making it very difficult for the guy to fix it, as it was butted against the floor, which it shouldn't have been installed that way.
Well, the good news though is that my upstairs bathroom floor no longer squeaks, after I ran nails into the floor joists to take up the slack.
Now that you're done being thankful this didn't happen to you, go ahead and get the laughter outta your system.
http://friendstalk.forumco.com/image...ile_tongue.gif Hubby's had a jolly old time ribbing me today. And the plumber had to call his dad and remind him of the time when he was 14 and put a nail through their water pipes. And my dad reminded me of when he SAWED through his flooring and right through the water pipe. And hey! I'm just a little ole blonde girl. What the heck do *I* know about water pipes.
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