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You've all been very polite about nagging me, knowing that I'm struggling with the new book, but I can hear the mutters: "We didn't friend janedavitt for this. Where are they? We haven't had one for ages! GIVE US A POST ABOUT A BASEMENT FLOOD, DAMMIT."
Well, the wait's over.
It's a small one as our basement floods go (for new readers this is the, uh, fourth? Fifth?) and luckily we caught it quickly.
L needed to take some artificial ivy into school for a play and there was some in the basement from her Halloween costume so just before school she ran down to get it -- and came running back up yelling that the floor was wet.
Same corner, different pipe in the ceiling, another pinhole leak. I turned the water off and I've flushed the loos and opened the taps but the water is still shooting out of it under pressure (don't understand that; surely it would've all drained out by now?). I've wrapped it in duct tape and a towel and positioned buckets. Carpet is wet and the mattress we keep down there for sleepovers is soaked on one corner but that's it, so not too bad. It's been worse.
I've photographed it and sent it to David -- wouldn't you know it, he has customers in, so he can't just come home and fix it.
::sigh::
This is why we'll never finish the basement. Imagine if that pipe had been behind a drywall?
ETA The pipes have finally emptied and no more water is coming out.
Well, the wait's over.
It's a small one as our basement floods go (for new readers this is the, uh, fourth? Fifth?) and luckily we caught it quickly.
L needed to take some artificial ivy into school for a play and there was some in the basement from her Halloween costume so just before school she ran down to get it -- and came running back up yelling that the floor was wet.
Same corner, different pipe in the ceiling, another pinhole leak. I turned the water off and I've flushed the loos and opened the taps but the water is still shooting out of it under pressure (don't understand that; surely it would've all drained out by now?). I've wrapped it in duct tape and a towel and positioned buckets. Carpet is wet and the mattress we keep down there for sleepovers is soaked on one corner but that's it, so not too bad. It's been worse.
I've photographed it and sent it to David -- wouldn't you know it, he has customers in, so he can't just come home and fix it.
::sigh::
This is why we'll never finish the basement. Imagine if that pipe had been behind a drywall?
ETA The pipes have finally emptied and no more water is coming out.
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All fixed with relatively little trouble, just a few hours work by us and about $60 of copper pipe...
::hugs you::
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Yay for a quick, easy, an relatively inexpensive fix.
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