Day 158

Water, Water, Everywhere... Oh, NO.

We got to the new house this morning to find out that something really bad had happened. There was water, lots of water, spraying out of the pipes for the bathtub. We had used plumbers epoxy on those pipes. Well, we would recommend not doing that. These pipes had been good and leak free for quite awhile now. But some time between Thursday night and Saturday morning they started to leak and spray water everywhere. The entire 2nd floor bathroom was wet. Water was running down through the floor into the 1st floor kitchen. Which was puddling at least an 1 1/2 deep. The sheetrock was soaking and falling off of the ceiling. The water was running down the stairs into the basement from the kitchen as well as flowing into the 1st floor bathroom and going down into the basement through the open floor there. It was also starting to go into the Dining room. (The strangely being the worst of it, as we have been stacking all of the stuff we had packed and brought over to the house in there.) And the basement was very wet... Though not as wet as it could have been. Jonathan quickly went down to the basement, through the dripping, pouring flood and shut off the water. Then we started to clean things up.

I started by trying to move all of the things out of the dining room to see how badly some of those things might have gotten wet. I was really glad that many of the things on the bottom had been plastic tubs. And there was a shelf that lots of things were stacked on near the wettest part. There were actually only four boxes that got wet. The one marked "photos" was the one I was most concerned about. But lucky for me cardboard boxes are thick. The pictures were just fine. The boxes that was the wettest was filled with plastic tubs of craft supplies... so again nothing was wet. YAY!

Jonathan started up in the 2nd floor bathroom, as this is the room we care the most about. It is the only room that we have 'finished'. He used the shop vac, to get any water that was left in the room. And got everything out and setting around to dry. Then he went down in the basement to clean up some of the water, and putting things out in the sun to dry. We did discover one good thing. We had thought that the drain in the basement did not work. But now we know that it does. Or there would have been a lot more water in the basement. There was a 5 gallon bucket just setting in the basement. It was completely full of water. So we know how much water had been flowing down into the basement.

The 1st floor kitchen is a terrible mess. But we don't care much about that room. The sheetrock and plaster are still falling. But hey, we are planning all knocking all of that down sometime in the future anyway so no real problem.

So that was our morning. Not what we had planned on doing at all. Now we are half a day behind what we had hoped to be doing. But I guess that is how things go somedays. So after lunch it was time to start on the 2nd floor tower room. We wanted to get the rest of the plaster and lathe out of the room so we could clean up and start working. :D

Even with the "late" start we got a lot done in the tower room. When we left for the night there was only a little bit of plaster, lathe and insulation left. Ella and I got the nails out of a pile of lathe. We are going to nail these back up to the studs so that when we put on the sheetrock it will be the right thickness for all of the woodwork. And whatever is left we are going to burn in our wood stove. The dumpster is getting nearly full. :) Another thing to smile about.

And today is another birthday... Happy Birthday, Eva.