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Not exercise
Jan. 7th, 2007 09:31 pmI was going to put my coat in the wash and then exercise while it was getting cleaned. So I went to the basement... and squelched my way across the floor?
Huh? Squelch? Oh crap, the carpet is wet! A quick visual inspection... no wet pipes. Oh crap. This is gonna be expensive.
So I pull up the carpet (where I can) and... yup, the concrete floor is wet, with puddles in the dips of the uneven floor. The main water is between the heating furnace and the hot water heater. Crap. So I start to mop up. Maybe maybe it's a one off. Maybe! And a thought comes to me; Tori has a shop vac; that'll suck up the water a lot quicker! So I call her and drag her back from Dario's. While I'm waiting I mop away and get a lot of the free-standing water, and now my back aches. She arrives and makes me a drink. Yay! She hunts around a bit and thinks she can see water coming from the back of the heater. Oh bugger. So she digs up the phone number of people she'd used in the past when her air-con was broken (24 hour service). I call them at 6:00 and they arrive in 30 minutes (nice) and looks at the heater. Yup; water is leaking from the front and running back. Oh crap. They can replace it today; cost around $1500. Gah! Well, I have no real choice.
While waiting Tori and I have a pizza, then Tori returns home.
Guys come back with new heater and then proceed to take the old one out. Except it's so old that the drain valve is all clogged and water won't come out. 40 gallons of water. That makes the old heater to heavy to wrangle up my stairs. So they curse and fight and eventually the drain valve breaks and water starts to come out... and flood more onto the floor. I'm mopping and shop-vac'ing and striving to stop the water from getting further into the basement area. I sort of succeed.
By 9:00 the new heater is in and working. The old heater is out, I've paid 'em and now what's left is tidyup. The shop vac gets a bit more use and all the free-standing water appears to have been collected. So now I have the dehumidifier running to try and dry it out. When the concrete appears dry enough (tomorrow?) I'll wrangle the carpet back down and see how wet that is. More shop-vac'ing and dehumidifier action is expected at that point.
On the plus side, I now have a new water heater, upgraded from 40gallon to 50gallon (something I was going to do in a year or so, anyway). And I got to see Tori.
But, guh, what a pain!
Edit: The concrete seems mostly dry (there's a small area around the furnace plinth where water is got into a crack so that keep welling up) so I've opened out the main section of carpet. (the secondary section behind the furnance and heater can wait). We'll see how the dehumidifier works on that carpet!
Recommendation: "Surgeon Plumbing"; Heating, Sewer & Drain Cleaning; 888-318-9100, 800-318-0656; 973-285-0666; 201-457-1999. They may not be the cheapest around but they're fast and responsive and I'm happy with the job they did.
Huh? Squelch? Oh crap, the carpet is wet! A quick visual inspection... no wet pipes. Oh crap. This is gonna be expensive.
So I pull up the carpet (where I can) and... yup, the concrete floor is wet, with puddles in the dips of the uneven floor. The main water is between the heating furnace and the hot water heater. Crap. So I start to mop up. Maybe maybe it's a one off. Maybe! And a thought comes to me; Tori has a shop vac; that'll suck up the water a lot quicker! So I call her and drag her back from Dario's. While I'm waiting I mop away and get a lot of the free-standing water, and now my back aches. She arrives and makes me a drink. Yay! She hunts around a bit and thinks she can see water coming from the back of the heater. Oh bugger. So she digs up the phone number of people she'd used in the past when her air-con was broken (24 hour service). I call them at 6:00 and they arrive in 30 minutes (nice) and looks at the heater. Yup; water is leaking from the front and running back. Oh crap. They can replace it today; cost around $1500. Gah! Well, I have no real choice.
While waiting Tori and I have a pizza, then Tori returns home.
Guys come back with new heater and then proceed to take the old one out. Except it's so old that the drain valve is all clogged and water won't come out. 40 gallons of water. That makes the old heater to heavy to wrangle up my stairs. So they curse and fight and eventually the drain valve breaks and water starts to come out... and flood more onto the floor. I'm mopping and shop-vac'ing and striving to stop the water from getting further into the basement area. I sort of succeed.
By 9:00 the new heater is in and working. The old heater is out, I've paid 'em and now what's left is tidyup. The shop vac gets a bit more use and all the free-standing water appears to have been collected. So now I have the dehumidifier running to try and dry it out. When the concrete appears dry enough (tomorrow?) I'll wrangle the carpet back down and see how wet that is. More shop-vac'ing and dehumidifier action is expected at that point.
On the plus side, I now have a new water heater, upgraded from 40gallon to 50gallon (something I was going to do in a year or so, anyway). And I got to see Tori.
But, guh, what a pain!
Edit: The concrete seems mostly dry (there's a small area around the furnace plinth where water is got into a crack so that keep welling up) so I've opened out the main section of carpet. (the secondary section behind the furnance and heater can wait). We'll see how the dehumidifier works on that carpet!
Recommendation: "Surgeon Plumbing"; Heating, Sewer & Drain Cleaning; 888-318-9100, 800-318-0656; 973-285-0666; 201-457-1999. They may not be the cheapest around but they're fast and responsive and I'm happy with the job they did.
