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"Life sucks and so do I..."
Cyndimaus 3117 desperate attention whore postings
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01-13-07, 02:27 PM (EST)
 
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"Life sucks and so do I..." |
...at least I'm sucking water out of the carpet.Let me 'splain....no let me sum up. Yesterday I put the dishwasher on and retired to the living room to read. My son goes through the kitchen later and yells for me. I go into the kitchen to find a large puddle of water in front of the dishwasher. I open the dishwaher and can hear the sound of water rushing but can't see any. I frantically call my husband who directs me to the valve under the sink, which I can't turn. He comes home. Can't turn it either. Goes downstairs and shuts the water off down there. Tells me water was pouring down the wall down there. The basement is dirt so we just have mud instead of a pond. Guy from the management agency finally comes out, gets the valve to move and turns the water back on. Says someone will come on Monday to fix the dishwaher and to try to extract water from the carpet. (yes, you read that correctly...there is carpet in the kitchen and it's really, super ugly too) So today I'm busily using my dad's rainbow to suck water out of the carpet (works pretty good!) after starting a load of laundry. (washing machine is in the kitchen area) Low and behold, water is pouring onto the carpet from the washer. Eek! So now there's twice as much water to suck up. My back is killing me and the carpet is wet. And I need to go back for round two to see if I can get any more water up. Oh the joy of my life. Okay, time for your home horror stories. Make me feel better. 
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Cyndimaus 3117 desperate attention whore postings
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01-13-07, 04:42 PM (EST)
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8. "RE: Life sucks and so do I..." |
I suspect that it could be a frozen pipe but I don't know. Shutting off the water supply to the dishwasher stopped the water problem there. And I think the washing machine might just be a hose cause once the washer was done with the cycle there was no more water coming out onto the floor.The washing machine, if it was a hose, would be our responsiblity cause it's our washer. But the dishwasher came with the house so it's the landlords responsiblity to do repairs and such. Since I didn't have to rent anything to suck up the water I'm just out the time and effort. I am a bit concerned about the insulation on the underside of the floor. It got quite wet. The guy who came over said it should dry out but to call if we smell anything funny. Needless to say, I am so very glad my dad used to sell Rainbow vacumes awhile back cause he had the carpet shampooing attachements that I was able to use the squeegee thing-a-ma-bob to suck up water.
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PepeLePew13 26135 desperate attention whore postings
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01-13-07, 03:51 PM (EST)
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4. "RE: Life sucks and so do I..." |
Oooh, I feel for ya, Cyndi. I've been there, and sucking up water ... sucks big time!In 2002, I came home late (about 11 pm) after teaching a night class with Pene and the kids sound asleep, and discovered the garage door was half-way open and a little river streaming down the driveway. A mouse was floating upside down alongside the edge of the driveway heading out towards the street to become a bon mot for some night creature. I opened the front door and was hit by a wall of steamy air. Ran upstairs to see what was going on and walked into the kitchen and discovered a nice little geyser shooting out from the hand washer that had evidently broken off. The geyser was turning the dishwasher's wooden top (which was dragged out to the sink in order to be hooked up to the main faucet) into a warped work of art. There were 2-3 inches of water on the floor -- vinyl in the kitchen but surrounded by a nice thick carpet, which, naturally, was soaking up the water like there was no tomorrow. I then turned the water faucet off and then ran downstairs to shut off the house's water supply just in case. I was treated to a free preview of Niagara Falls streaming through a new hole in the garage's ceiling (directly below the kitchen). $35,000 worth of damage later, we ended up being out of the house for 2 weeks later on in the summer so the insurance people could arrange a contractor to completely rip out the kitchen's floorboards, all of the carpeting, about 2-3 feet worth of drywall all the way along the walls, and then put in new flooring, new walls, new ceiling for the garage, new garage entrance door, the automatic garage door opener replaced, and a whole new bathroom with new walls. I shouldn't complain so much... it helped us bring in a better value for the house when we sold it two years later, as the new colours and flooring really helped a lot!
  
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PepeLePew13 26135 desperate attention whore postings
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01-13-07, 04:01 PM (EST)
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5. "RE: Life sucks and so do I..." |
Oh, and I should add what happened the night before we moved from that cursed house in 2004... Pene was getting ready to give a bath to Pippy while I was out doing some errands. It was the last night before we were to move to a new house and we all were doing some last-minute packing and final cleanup of the house. After starting the bath water, she then got distracted by packing a box and before anyone realized it, water started streaming down the living room's wall. Then, ack, water started spraying through the entire living room as apparently some had gone in through the ceiling fan! The funniest thing? Pene and my mother holding towels onto the wall while Pippy was dancing around the living room with his arms outstretched as the water sprayed around him. You think we were going to chance turning the fan off by hand with the electricity still on? No sirree... I later was able to turn it off by wearing a thick oven glove. Fortunately, we caught it early enough so after the plumber came and did his magic on the piping from the tub (which we found out to be clogged and caused the emergency drain to not function), he did an assessment of the walls and the fan, determined that it wasn't severe enough to warrant telling the new owners about it. After consultation with our real estate lawyer, we quickly packed up the trucks the next morning and got the hell out of there before anything else had a chance to happen. Never heard a peep from the new owners or from the lawyers so I assume the house is still standing and nothing collapsed on them.
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Snidget 44369 desperate attention whore postings
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01-13-07, 06:56 PM (EST)
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13. "RE: Life sucks and so do I..." |
I've been really lucky with water.My dishwasher had a slow leak, but I got a new one as the one that came with the house svcked really bad. I do have a dishwasher story from when I was with my Ex. He figured that since we were out of real dishwasher detergent he would use regular dish soap. He knew it foamed a lot so he only put a drop in. Well a little while later there is a bubble monster several feet tall in the kitchen which we found out about because the dog was barking at it. At least that was easy to clean up. Hope your water troubles are over soon.
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Puffy 6702 desperate attention whore postings
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01-13-07, 08:20 PM (EST)
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15. "RE: Life sucks and so do I..." |
Sounds like it might have been frozen pipes (as if I should know, I'm in Southern California) *shrug*
At least you don't have to worry about cold beer.
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mysticwolf 10692 desperate attention whore postings
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01-14-07, 08:53 PM (EST)
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24. "RE: Life sucks and so do I..." |
Geez, that would NOT be the way I'd want to have to spend my day. Hope you manage to find the cause and get it fixed without further mishap.Other than the flood in the basement last fall caused by heavy rains and a brand new storm sewer system that's alrady clogged (the city denies it, but I've got pics of little trees growing out of the one in front) I haven't had to deal with that since I was a kid. Our house, as a kid, used to have flooding in the family room on a regular basis. Worst was when my folks were out of town & my brother came home from boot camp. It was during the infamous "toilet paper shortage" days and mom had bought an entire pallet of toilet paper. Which was stored... My exhausted brother was none too happy when his kid sister woke him up because she "couldn't move the toilet paper". (He had no idea it was a full pallet. He was even less pleased when he came to that realization.) As an adult our worst "disaster" was going on vacation with dad & a neighbor pet-sitting. Dad decided to "grow hair" on my allergic German Shepherd by adding vegetable oil, lecethin, and blackstrap molassas to her (and the other 2 large dog's) food all week long - then forgetting that the neighbor had to work (fire fighter) and he (dad) was also supposed to let them out the last 2 days. That mess beats, hands down, the time we returned, late at night, from a dive vacation to find the house in the 20's. The furnace had died - probably the day after we left - and dad just figured we'd turned it down on purpose. The dogs and cats were never so happy as they were to see the kerosene heater we borrowed from my BIL. Hope you end up with a good resolution.  
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