Since we have moved into Grandpa's house, we have had nothing but problems. It first started with the leaking toilets. Lee got new fill valves and they were an easy fix. Needless to say, my Grandpa's water bill for that month was HUGE!
A few weeks ago, I noticed some water dripping from an access panel in the bedroom. Lee opened it up to see that the pipes were leaking. Because the pipes are more than 50 years old, a bigger leak happened when Lee tried to fix it. It was basically a domino effect that ended up with Lee completely re-plumbing the house. In order to to that he had to tear out part of the ceiling to access the pipes. We are still waiting to repair the ceiling, and that will hopefully happen in a week or so.
A few weeks ago, I noticed some water dripping from an access panel in the bedroom. Lee opened it up to see that the pipes were leaking. Because the pipes are more than 50 years old, a bigger leak happened when Lee tried to fix it. It was basically a domino effect that ended up with Lee completely re-plumbing the house. In order to to that he had to tear out part of the ceiling to access the pipes. We are still waiting to repair the ceiling, and that will hopefully happen in a week or so.
On Saturday, I stepped in a wet spot on the floor. My first thought was that Kota has an accident, but then I noticed the wet spot was much larger than what Kota would leave. We discovered that my Grandpa's water heater had a leak. The mechanical room has no drain so it had leaked out into the family room. Adam was able to get us a new water heater on Sunday morning (Thanks Adam!) and Lee and my dad installed it. Everything seemed fine so we went on with our day. We left for awhile and had dinner at my parents house then headed up to my Grandma's to give her a blessing. When we got home the wet spot had spread! There was a loose pipe on the new water heater, and it had been leaking the whole time! Lee tightened it down and the leak stopped, so then all we had to do was damage control. We ended up having to pull the carpet back and cutting the pad out so we could take it outside to dry. It was so soaked that water was just pouring out of it. Our new neighbor has some blowers he let us borrow so we left them running through the night. Hopefully it will be dry soon so we can get the carpet tacked back down and the room put back together.
Look how much water was soaked in the pad!
2 comments:
Oh boy, I surely don't think you guys have very good luck lately in your family! I'm sorry!
Wow what luck huh? While living in Scott's parent's home we've had similar problems come in 3 but not so severe as the plumbing! Ours was the sprinklers, refrigerator, and AC. Sorry to hear about your gma too. That's exactly what my mom is dealing with (except hers stemmed from breast cancer). They just found more tumors in her bones too. I would suggest they do a bone scan on your gma to make sure it's not spread elsewhere. My mom's dr didn't think to do it until after she complained about severe pain. Some drs just don't think to test and look everywhere possible; which could change how they go about treating it. Good luck and take care!
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