ARGHHHHH

[NMDemDist2]

i took a late nap (or went to bed early, your choice) about 3 hours ago and got up to get a snack and found my kitchen/dining room flooded with water dripping from the vent and 3 other places in my freshly painted ceiling

:banghead:

seems the old owner had tapped into a copper line the builder put in for a swamp cooler in the main house to run a black plastic irrigation type line to feed a swamp cooler in the garage. I've been here 9 years and didn't even know that fan was a swamp cooler and have never used it.....

anyway seems there's a handle (looks like the one in your bathtub) next to the hot water heater that has been slightly cracked open for who knows how long and finally the black plastic line split.

took us half an hour to find the line in 18 inchs of insulation in the attic and follow it to the line down the wall to the valve which i finally closed

i have buckets in the kitchen and am looking at a seal and re-paint once it dries out

:argh:


the joys of home ownership....... but it's a darn good thing i woke up and wandered into the kitchen otherwise it would have been 9 more hours til we found it.

[Stinky The Clown]

1. Seems we have mirror image problems .....

You have too much water. Me? Not so much.

http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=view_all&address=287x1807

[eleny]

2. Aw jeez

:hug:

[NMDemDist2]

3. yup... pretty much

thanks for the hug, poor Mr Ketchup is fighting a sinus infection and is wiped out from our first day back a work and he gets to climb into the attic and muck about in loose fiberglass for 20 minutes

but the streams have slowed to a slow drip and i have the floor dried up

what a day (I was worn out too, which is why I went to bed early)

well i might as well laugh about it now, it coulda been MUCH worse and it was an easy fix to turn off the spigot once we found the damn thing

[politicat]

4. How goes the dry-out?

Swamps are great... as long as you know about them. I'm so sorry. A ceiling leak is horrible!

At least you have good weather for having the windows open and fans going! (I can't imagine trying to deal with such a leak during a snow storm....)

[NMDemDist2]

6. the leaking stopped, but it's gonna be a while before we can repaint

but that's ok too......

[Lugnut]

5. Oh no!

Oh man what a mess. Thank goodness you woke up though. Ah the joys of happy home ownership indeed.

[NMDemDist2]

7. yup, it's spread to another tress in the dining room and the worst leak

was where the ceiling was patched from tearing out a wall. that's feeling pretty mushy there, so we'll probably have to patch the drywall and re-tape it

:banghead: