Hubby immediately went to work, skipping dinner the day I had to shut off the entire water supply. Most of the bathroom ended up in the kitchen, and some of the utility room ended up in the hallway. It was squeeze and step over stuff for a few days.
Not to mention, dirty dished and laundry piled up.
Chicks were moved to the living room, to make room to start moving the washer and dryer, but that didn't happen.
The bathroom floor (kitchen bathroom) was ripped up, boards removed to be able to see where the leak was. Found it. The toilet was removed, the boards cut to access under the house (we do not have a crawl space). The wall to the right in that picture is connected to my utility room.
However, the first cut of drywall in the utility room wasn't quite spot on. Second cut? Spot on.
Four trips to the hardware store .... off and on verbal extremities coming from the utility room, there seem to be problems to deal with as he worked. Meanwhile, I watched some tutorials for my own projects, made phone calls for one big ticket job, and other stuff.
We also did some pricing on new flooring for the bathroom, and heat tape while we had pipes exposed (by the way it wan't a water leak from the pipes cracking due to cold, it was a connection that had split apart in the wall (oh yeah for that).
Sitting down after the water was back on.....
Me: "Well I shouldn't have kept saying I needed to get that utility room cleaned."
God listened. God motivated. Not good, and not all bad either. For the first time, I stayed calm in this "storm." Knowing that my "MacGyver" husband and I would team up and fix it. Or should I say fix "things." Many things.
I'm trying to get things back to normal. The utility room cleaning will soon be underway. Thanks to this situation. I am purging, and thankfully a few kids in apartments are taking some items.
I'm thankful we had homemade "lysol" wipes on hand to keep our hands clean and sanitized.
I'm thankful the leak was in an area we could get to.
I'm thankful I keep flush water on hand year round.
What concerns us, is why after all these years, the pipe split apart. Bad work? Poor quality of water lines? Hm.
Oh, we found a second leak in the same area. Apparently we are not done.
Not to mention, dirty dished and laundry piled up.
Chicks were moved to the living room, to make room to start moving the washer and dryer, but that didn't happen.
The bathroom floor (kitchen bathroom) was ripped up, boards removed to be able to see where the leak was. Found it. The toilet was removed, the boards cut to access under the house (we do not have a crawl space). The wall to the right in that picture is connected to my utility room.
However, the first cut of drywall in the utility room wasn't quite spot on. Second cut? Spot on.
Four trips to the hardware store .... off and on verbal extremities coming from the utility room, there seem to be problems to deal with as he worked. Meanwhile, I watched some tutorials for my own projects, made phone calls for one big ticket job, and other stuff.
We also did some pricing on new flooring for the bathroom, and heat tape while we had pipes exposed (by the way it wan't a water leak from the pipes cracking due to cold, it was a connection that had split apart in the wall (oh yeah for that).
Sitting down after the water was back on.....
Me: "Well I shouldn't have kept saying I needed to get that utility room cleaned."
God listened. God motivated. Not good, and not all bad either. For the first time, I stayed calm in this "storm." Knowing that my "MacGyver" husband and I would team up and fix it. Or should I say fix "things." Many things.
I'm trying to get things back to normal. The utility room cleaning will soon be underway. Thanks to this situation. I am purging, and thankfully a few kids in apartments are taking some items.
I'm thankful we had homemade "lysol" wipes on hand to keep our hands clean and sanitized.
I'm thankful the leak was in an area we could get to.
I'm thankful I keep flush water on hand year round.
What concerns us, is why after all these years, the pipe split apart. Bad work? Poor quality of water lines? Hm.
Oh, we found a second leak in the same area. Apparently we are not done.
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Prayers for better days ahead.
God bless.
RB
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