April 11, 2011
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it’s pourin’ rain in the basement!
About 3am this morning I was woken by the sound of rain. While not all THAT unusual, it was the sound of rain IN SIDE THE HOUSE! not outside. Since my mother moved in with us a few weeks ago, I have been sleeping in the spare room in the basement. So this sound of rain was really, REALLY loud. Did I say it was really loud?
Once I sorted out that the water was indeed inside and in the basement at that, I went in search of its source, starting at the top of the house, and checking outside to make sure it wasn’t raining and there was some type of leak from the outside. Twice. No toilets or taps were running and it was not raining outside. I just could not figure out where this water was coming from! But it was coming in the basement none the less. So my next thought, email the landlord … but stopping short of actually rining their house and waking the world, what were they going to do at 3:15 in the morning? That’s when the brilliant idea struck me square in the head, right between the eyes …. turn off the water! WAIT! Where is the water intake for the hosue again? Out side? No. WAIT! It’s BEHIND the tumble dryer. Great. There is not a whole hack of a lot of space in the laundry area to begin with, but add to that the fact that I have moved in to the spare room, taking up MORE space … well needless to say, the tumble dryer vent pipe needed to be replaced too once I was done gettign the tumble dryer out of the way.
Okay, water turned off and the raining in the basement has stopped. But what is that new noise!?!?! The hot water tank is freaking out! Like getting ready to explode freaking out! Great. NOW WHAT DO I DO?!?!? Uhm. (Insane Mother of Three)? TURN IT OFF! So I did. Well that was at 3:30 …. BEFORE DAWN. Fun. Not so much.
It’s all fixed now … at least to the satifaction of the landlord, who was the one to fix it. Sigh …. at least we have water AND hot stuff at that!
