NGC~ tale of woe

[jcctx]

Go woke up this AM by the pretty wife in a sheer panic~~ whole front half of the house flooded by a water leak??? GRR...... Now have a crew in here removing the water, taking up base boards, etc. Will need mold mitigation, etc. Just had my 83rd birthday Saturday; guess this my late present.
Hope everyone else's week started better!!!!!!

[Bulldog9]

Go woke up this AM by the pretty wife in a sheer panic~~ whole front half of the house flooded by a water leak??? GRR...... Now have a crew in here removing the water, taking up base boards, etc. Will need mold mitigation, etc. Just had my 83rd birthday Saturday; guess this my late present.
Hope everyone else's week started better!!!!!!

YUK................ . Sorry to hear. Water pipe? Roof?

[yrunvs]

Go woke up this AM by the pretty wife in a sheer panic~~ whole front half of the house flooded by a water leak??? GRR...... Now have a crew in here removing the water, taking up base boards, etc. Will need mold mitigation, etc. Just had my 83rd birthday Saturday; guess this my late present.
Hope everyone else's week started better!!!!!!

The good news is you woke up this morning.

[nc43bsa]

The good news is you woke up this morning.

On the other hand, if you had slept through today and woke up tomorrow, you would have missed all the "fun."

[JJ]

Go woke up this AM by the pretty wife in a sheer panic~~ whole front half of the house flooded by a water leak??? GRR...... Now have a crew in here removing the water, taking up base boards, etc. Will need mold mitigation, etc. Just had my 83rd birthday Saturday; guess this my late present.
Hope everyone else's week started better!!!!!!

Very sorry to hear that.... - - Time to call SERV-PRO, or some other flood clean-up specialist....Good luck with all that....and I assume your insurance company can cover this?

[jcctx]

YUK................. Sorry to hear. Water pipe? Roof?

Looks like a water pipe under the slab; will have to penetrate the floor. Water damage and cleanup insured; plumbing leak repair is not.

[TN Mark]

Make sure everything gets repaired in a timely manner. A friend had the water hose connected to the refrigerator leak. $25k plus damage between the first floor, wall, bathroom and the finished basement. It’s still being worked on, after 6 months!

[Motormike]

I hate slab houses.  Years ago, my wife's slab house was being treated for termites, where they drill around the garage interior.  Drilled right through the water main!  Water shot up so high it was hitting the drywall ceiling!  Punched a soggy hole in it before I could get a wrench and turn off the water main at the street.    What a PITA!

[nc43bsa]

Make sure everything gets repaired in a timely manner. A friend had the water hose connected to the refrigerator leak. $25k plus damage between the first floor, wall, bathroom and the finished basement. It’s still being worked on, after 6 months!

Then there's the multi-million dollar estate in TX that ultimately was condemned after a leak caused mold, that in turn caused permanent lung damage to a juvenile and brain damage to an adult.

[Joliet Jim]

Sad to hear and it will suck until it's done.

We were wintering away in 99/00 when we got a call in February about icicles hanging from all our soffits. The hot water valve under the upstairs bathroom sink blew off after 40+ years and sent 35000 gallons through the house. Basically water shot into the master bedroom and then flowed to the other rooms, down the vents collapsing them and then taking out the downstairs ceiling. Basically everything inside from the upstairs flood cut down to the ground was replaced except the framing. Took over 8 months to repair due to -. Almost 20,000 in code upgrades alone. House looks great and every appliance, furnace, ac, plumbing, electrics, subfloors, floors, fire place, etc. are 6 years old. Never could have afforded the remodel on my own. SF made up for denying a roof 10 years ago.

Good luck and hopefully it works out well for you. It is very stressful.

[blackcat]

Sad to hear and it will suck until it's done.

 The hot water valve under the upstairs bathroom sink blew off after 40+ years and sent 35000 gallons through the house.

That is kind of amazing, I wonder what caused it to fail? Was it a copper fitting or plastic?

[Joliet Jim]

That is kind of amazing, I wonder what caused it to fail? Was it a copper fitting or plastic?

original copper from 1971. The plumber we had come in initially before the repairs said he'd never seen anything like it. It would have been nice if the village was able to determine using 35000 gallons in a day in mid February in Northern Illinois was unusual and shut it off, but at least SF paid the water bill.

[Bulldog9]

Water leaks are the worst.............. . My 'retirement home' which we bought in 2010 with a 15 year Mortgage and put tenants in it to pay off had 3-4 water leaks over the years. The Shower drain in one room, the faucets for the tub in another, and the worst was the ice maker water connection in the kitchen.... All wood floors in the house. Worst case, was while I was around the world and trusted a property manager to monitor and repair, the repairs sucked, most damage not fixed properly, and as I had the last tenants move out 6 months before I set eyes on it, I was SOL for most of it.  In one case for the shower drain, they cut a big hole in the ceiling (inside a closet) and didn't close it up. And the repair? Instead of replacing the stub and gasket, they packed it with about 3lbs of plumbers putty.............

The Hardwood floors were still warped after probably 5 years after the leak, but I had to have them refinished anyway, so the guy was able to get it 95% right.............. All the ceilings in the lower floor were stained from water and all the joints had to be retaped. It was stucco finish which hid most of it, but........ I still have to replace the flooring in the lower level, it had some of that 1st gen laminate snap together fake wood flooring, and though dry now you can tell. I just have a big carpet thrown over most of the area.

JCCTX, as others have said, please make sure you get the mold taken care of, and check that you dont have areas where the slab was undercut by the water. I wonder how long that pipe was leaking?

I'm there about 50% of the time, and shut off the water main when I am gone.

[kballowe]

A few years ago, we started shutting off the water when we went out of town (and flipping the water heater breaker).

One less thing to worry about.

[Ncdan]

^^^^what  KB said.
Any time wife and I are going to be away from home for more than a day the water valve to the main line into the house is closed.

[jcctx]

The leak detection guy is here now; regular plumber could not pin point and does not want to dig in wrong place. LOOKS LIKE THIS MAY DRAG OUT 2, MAYBE 3 MORE DAYS!!! Argggggggg!