Water Water Everywhere
Friday evening the bottom of one of our hot water heaters fell out, dumping gallons of water all over our house, flooding it with a nice rusty colored water.
After about 30 minutes, we were able to get the water shut off, but not without all the water still flowing into 6 rooms/areas in our house. So we have not been able to live in our house because we have no water. That means no toilets, no showers, no cooking, nothing.
We are home right now waiting for the plumber to come to replace the water heater...supposedly. I have everything crossed that this is true. Luckily we had it on warrenty and it will only cost us $50 instead of $1050. So maybe we will be able to move back in tonight.
As for the floors. Ruined. Luckily insurance will cover this, so it should only cost us $500 instead of $5000, but that is still all up in the air till the insurance guy comes out and confirms that what we have said is true...on April 12th. So we are living on concrete floors for awhile. Once insurance gives us the money we will be putting in new floors, only problem is we are going out of town. So it looks like we may be living on concrete floors for a month or so.
I am pretty calm about it right now since I am excited about the fact we may have a water heater today. But once that is fixed, I know the realization of the floors will hit and I will be all upset again. So we have had one heck of a weekend. Between driving to Southlake to live and drop of Juls, the hospital to go see our beautiful little Eva, Home Depot to price and pick stuff, I am worn out. And just looking at everything we have to do to this house today to make it livable with a 2 year old makes me want to cry.
Amazing how something you never really see or think about can do so much good for the house, but in the matter of minutes, sompletely destroy it. I am just very thankful we were home and able to turn the water off, or else we may have come home to a lake instead of a pond.
One cute thing, while we were busy trying to turn the water off, Juls woke up and came to her door. She was leaning on her gate looking down the hall at me in the water and kept saying "Water water everywhere. Water everywhere Mommy". Once I was able to go check on her, she was sitting in a puddle of water herself. We didn't realize it had made it's way that far. Poor thing. She was very good concidering everything that went on.
After about 30 minutes, we were able to get the water shut off, but not without all the water still flowing into 6 rooms/areas in our house. So we have not been able to live in our house because we have no water. That means no toilets, no showers, no cooking, nothing.
We are home right now waiting for the plumber to come to replace the water heater...supposedly. I have everything crossed that this is true. Luckily we had it on warrenty and it will only cost us $50 instead of $1050. So maybe we will be able to move back in tonight.
As for the floors. Ruined. Luckily insurance will cover this, so it should only cost us $500 instead of $5000, but that is still all up in the air till the insurance guy comes out and confirms that what we have said is true...on April 12th. So we are living on concrete floors for awhile. Once insurance gives us the money we will be putting in new floors, only problem is we are going out of town. So it looks like we may be living on concrete floors for a month or so.
I am pretty calm about it right now since I am excited about the fact we may have a water heater today. But once that is fixed, I know the realization of the floors will hit and I will be all upset again. So we have had one heck of a weekend. Between driving to Southlake to live and drop of Juls, the hospital to go see our beautiful little Eva, Home Depot to price and pick stuff, I am worn out. And just looking at everything we have to do to this house today to make it livable with a 2 year old makes me want to cry.
Amazing how something you never really see or think about can do so much good for the house, but in the matter of minutes, sompletely destroy it. I am just very thankful we were home and able to turn the water off, or else we may have come home to a lake instead of a pond.
One cute thing, while we were busy trying to turn the water off, Juls woke up and came to her door. She was leaning on her gate looking down the hall at me in the water and kept saying "Water water everywhere. Water everywhere Mommy". Once I was able to go check on her, she was sitting in a puddle of water herself. We didn't realize it had made it's way that far. Poor thing. She was very good concidering everything that went on.
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