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Ah, the joys of home ownership ...
a year ago
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... when you're a idiot of many trades, but a master of not a dang thing ...
Come in from a food run to a high-pitched alarm of some kind in the garage (didn't take that car) - the perfect pitch that keeps you from telling which direction to look ...
Finally track it down to the water-heater leak detector in the pan. Yup there's water slowly dripping from the expansion tank above the water heater.
No cut-offs at the water heater (last plumber didn't see the need) so kill the whole house, open a outside faucet to kill any presser, remove old expansion tank, close faucet and head for the store for a replacement and some tape ...
Little did I know, the mains cutoff wasn't quite closed ...
Come home with the replacement, something about pre-charging it? One short U-tupy later I'm ready to install it - to find a slow but steady flow of water from the pipe I'd left open semi-flooding the garage (maybe about what I'd gotten in a day or three without that alarm going off ...)
Good news - saved a few hundred on a plumber.
Bad news - lots to dry out before we end up with a mold problem ...
(yes, still writing on the silly book four ...)
Come in from a food run to a high-pitched alarm of some kind in the garage (didn't take that car) - the perfect pitch that keeps you from telling which direction to look ...
Finally track it down to the water-heater leak detector in the pan. Yup there's water slowly dripping from the expansion tank above the water heater.
No cut-offs at the water heater (last plumber didn't see the need) so kill the whole house, open a outside faucet to kill any presser, remove old expansion tank, close faucet and head for the store for a replacement and some tape ...
Little did I know, the mains cutoff wasn't quite closed ...
Come home with the replacement, something about pre-charging it? One short U-tupy later I'm ready to install it - to find a slow but steady flow of water from the pipe I'd left open semi-flooding the garage (maybe about what I'd gotten in a day or three without that alarm going off ...)
Good news - saved a few hundred on a plumber.
Bad news - lots to dry out before we end up with a mold problem ...
(yes, still writing on the silly book four ...)
Hope you get it sorted out soon!
They 'stabilized' it around the edges ($50k more to do it right and we'd have to move out for a month). Too bad the 'warranty' warned it was 'void' if the plumbing was leaky. (built in '67 with old iron drain pipes - of course it leaks!) So she had the plumbers dig yards and yards of dirt from under the house (the center of the foundation now bows 'down' a couple inches ...)
Managed to convince her not to throw any more good money after bad ...
Sadly the current foundation angle means the water isn't going out but puddling in ...
The guys we got did a complete hatchet job on our house.
Our place is basically splitting in half as the front slides down a hill, so the front of the house needs to be jacked up. No problem, right?
The morons we hire come out here, dig up our entire front yard, and then tell us they can only jack the house up a third of what they promised because "it might damage the roof"
Then they go down in our basement and start tearing open the ceiling (finished basement) to screw a bunch of reinforcing beams into the ceiling joists, saying the west wall needed shoring up (it didn't)
Oh yeah, and they bashed the bucket of their excavator into the main sewer line out of our house while digging out the yard, so their access pit got filled with sewage.
All said and done, the front of our house is still falling off, all our interior doors have to be re-hung, there's cracks all over the walls, and we have three huge beam things to cover up on the basement ceiling.
I hope you can get a little peace before next item pops up and says "how do you like me now"
Vix
No under-liner, so less water absorbed ...
Mike Holmes.
Or you have someone turn the water back on before the repair is done.
Hmmm hate to see plumbing problems on the Folly.