I couldn't believe it.
I was in the laundry room very early this morning, fully dressed, wearing my badge and keys. I was after a couple of bottles of Mountain Dew, which, for some reason, I decided to store in there.
And I heard a vigorous dripping. No [censored] way. No way.
Our ride was there and work was NOT optional today so I cut the water to the house and left. I worried about it all day at work feeling quite persecuted if I must say.
Came home, water in the garage. OK, now I really know I wasn't hearing things. House is dry, ALL OF IT so that's not it.
I texted the plumber, who called me and got out there in an hour.
He came in, said the new pipes were fine. But we had a cracked pipe from our air conditioner drain pan to outside, and every time we got condensation it was leaking. Not only that, someone (a roofer most likely) had driven a nail through our sewer vent pipe, which had lost a big chunk. "That" he told me "will cause rain to leak in your house".
[insert more cursing]
Got it fixed but yike. No dripping at all right now. Ron and I are so post traumatic about leaks now it isn't even funny.
That makes 3 leaks now, not counting the one Biscuit did moving a pipe when he went in the wall to play. Hopefully I am done for a while now.
Good news:
My pipes are fine.
This had to be fixed sooner or later anyway.
We could barely manage it, but we did.
House is fine now, no water in it at all.
I made a small inventory order for Friday so that will work with my budget.
All done and everything is working as it should.
But, oh, what a terrible start to my day.
3 comments:
Oh my...I'm glad it was easily fixable and your plumber was able to come out so quickly.
Water *really* wants to get into your house.
I had chest pain reading this OMG Heather! Thank goodness it wasn’t worse!
I know! I feel like I'm cursed!
If I didn't need it I would cut the water altogether, although it still wouldn't have stopped the last leak.
I keep thinking people 100 years ago didn't have this problem, but they had a well and had to haul the water instead. Even when they were sick or injured.
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