I wasn't expecting an indoor swimming pool

Why did you mop it up honey - I was about to grab my cossie and come for a dip with you! I think the machine is actually trying to wind you up - they do that sometimes you know and it can be very irritating indeed! Our old washing machine used to flood every now and then, I think it just got bored and wanted some excitement - we have also had 2 floods in our kitchen in the last few years - one from a shower sealant that needed renewing and the other from a burst pipe. Seems it never rains but it pours! lol xxxx

Poor man those washers are conspiring against you because they miss a womans touch..lol It must aggitate you to no end when the washer acts up. I know It would me. I am just hoping that the washer behaves from now on and tell it if it doesn't it wil land out their in the woodshed for a real beating like it cousins got..lol I hate when my hubsand decides to take upon himself to do laundry, He never takes the time to spray anything with Shout or use Oxiclean and all the clothes come out a mess which I then have to fix lucky the dryer isn't being used right now and some of the damage might be reversible. Domestic dramas? Our toilet stays on steadily even though I have turned it off from the valve something is wrong with shut off valve so I have had to try to fix it so it won't run but then we can't flush either needs a whole new inside and our other toilet is also messed up when you flush water comes out the back around the neck of the bowl so right now we are flushing with a bucket. Our bathtub runs or should I a drips steadily cause it won't shut off all the way but my husband got a new bath and shower kit a few days ago and has to install it this weekend hopefully. The bathroom is next ot my bedroom and the drip..drip..drip..is getting on my nerves and doesn't drip me off to sleep... We are slowly fixing up our old heap I just hope we finish this year.. I dread the painting..but thats another story..

Your story reminded me of an incident which happened when we were visiting my parents in Africa a little more than 6 years ago. Bathrooms in India have an outlet for water to drain away outside the shower area too. Most Indian toilets have a hand held faucet to clean ourselves (toilet paper isn't common). But that wasn't the case in Africa and my dad had one done in his bathroom in Africa. When we were visiting, my husband decided he had to try his strength on the faucet's handle (which just needed a flick with the finger actually) and he broke the thing! We had water all over the bathroom which was seeping into the bedroom because there was no outlet for the water in the bathroom (besides the one inside the tub). My mother came in hearing my shouts and asked my husband to close the main valve which was outside the building. Hubby dear in his hurry to close the valve before the water filled the bedroom slipped on the tiles, fell and banged the back of his head. Wondering what was taking him this long....(and yes, the water was beginning to fill the bedroom and I was holding our one year old then).....I went outside to find my husband being helped inside by some stranger who saw him fall as he was passing by. I then handed over our son to my mother before I went out to close the valve...and by the time I got back, the bathroom and the bedroom was flooded and my mother and I had to use up all the towels she had to mop it up.

I've had several over the years (which is why I'm GLADLY giving this house back to the bank!). The first one occurred about 4 summers ago...we had the remains of a hurricane coming up the coast. Since I'm inland (closer to the Delaware River than the Atlantic), I wasn't too worried. Hey, my home had two roofs on it! (two asphalt layers) and it wasn't leaking--even the two contractors that came out the week before said everything was ok. That night I was sitting at the computer, typing away when I heard 'drip, drip, drip'. I poked my head in the kitchen, but I guess I didn't hear anything and went back to work (I didn't need anything from the kitchen that night). The following morning, I came downstairs and turned on the computer and then went into the kitchen...ACK! The roof leaked in several places, but in one area in particular (where the contractors had climbed up on the roof) and everything paper was ruined! I threw out 5 or 6 contractor size bags of garbage. What a mess! Then let's fastfoward 18 months...fall of 2006. This was a girl-made catastrophe (and is two-pronged). I was sitting at the computer doing work when I saw a horrific flash of sparks and the computer shut off. I ran to the front door and there's my neighbor yelling at me to NOT come out. I couldn't see anything, so I went out the back door and started to come down the alleyway between my home and garage...more sparks! Yikes, I've got an electric fire in front of my home! I run back in and grab my cell phone to call the police, the firemen, 911, someone! After watching the display for half an hour, over 35000 gallons of water drain into the street and seeing my car look as if it was next to a roadside bomb, I no longer had water or sewer, nor electric and gas. I was forced out of my home for a month! All because this stupid kid doesn't know to pop balloons before disposing of them! (NOTE: mylar balloons and power lines DON'T mix!). And to make it worse (part two now), I got the water on a month later, ran the dishwasher only to have a sliver of concrete cut THAT line! Took several days to find and fix, but not before it ruining the floor (even the subfloor needs to be replaced). More stuff that got damaged and thrown out! The last incident that really cemented this for me: last summer, I went downstairs to change the clothes and turned on the light at the top of the basement steps. ACK! There's 4 to 6" of water! I quickly grabbed a friend (local handyman) and asked him if I could get some help. He hand-bailed as much as he could, but 30 gallons of water is a LOT! Even MORE stuff got thrown out (I had to throw out saturated hardwood that was kept as a backup for any patches in my home!). What a mess! NOTHING had better happen now--I just want to end this nightmare and move on....as a tenant!

None like that lately. My 2.5 year old son keeps peeing on my kitchen floor like a puppy. He is in the middle of potty training and seems to think it's ok to pee on the floor???? At least, he isn't doing it on the carpet. He laughs at the funny noise that his pee makes when it hits the floor. Sigh...the wonders of motherhood.

We have domestic dramas of the watery sort each time we have heavy rain However I wanted to write about washing machines today, as a washing machine caused me the biggest scare of my young life. I was in Mum and Dad's old kitchen and the washing machine was whirring away to itself. I was pretty young I guess as the washing machine must have been about chest height. Anyway, I had my back to it when it started it's spin cycle and when I turned around I discovered that it had chased me across the room! It literally pinned me against the wall! Of course, with the noise it was making on spin, no-one could hear me yelling so I had to endure being pummelled against the wall until it quietened down and someone came and rescued me. I guess it had just got unbalanced and 'walked' itself, but I blame that incident for my lifelong fear of housework.

Oh my I hate to laugh at your troubles but you do have a flair with words...lol. That is too funny. Ok let me dredge up a memory....oh yes. My mom had moved into a townhouse in the same complex we lived in a few years ago. Everything was going great till the great flood...her sewer drains started to back up and flooded the whole downstairs and across the complex our neighbors pipes went bad in the walls and flooded out our upstairs and we had a skylight to the upstairs in our dining room for months till we just gave up and moved since landlord wouldn't fix the problems. Mom moved also.

P1 thank you so much for the laugh lol, I know I should not as I am sure I would have cried if the happened to me, which it did once and I did cry lol I would have told the Mice to go in their room or I would call the Cats lol that would have moved them, cheeky little things complaining lol As for the Machine working when your Wife switched it on, well it must be the Woman touch lol xx

rotflmao :))0 too funny.... I hope you did check the pools hoses... They can come lose from vibration sometimes.... Oh the vibration of the washing machine. Since the new facet in the bathroom, I have not dealt with many catastrophes lately. There was once last summer I think of the toilet over flowing with my grand daughters toy that my grand son lost down the throne. You could find that somewhere in the vault of old Angelwhispers discussions. But so far Pike..... come here Mate and let me knock on your wooden head for luck, I have not had any mishaps lately.

Well, my dishwasher went bad all of a sudden last year. I ran out of dishwasher detergent one time too. I decided to use regular dish soap in it. That was a huge mistake. The dishwasher ran and I didn't see what was going on at the time. When I went back to my kitchen, there was water and bubbles all over the floor. I had such a mess to clean up too.

i have the flooding issues as well,but not from the washing machine.well mine is sort of like a natural disaster.every time it rains heavily i get flooded out in the room downstairs.i have to use all my towels just to mop up as when it rains it comes down from every one elses property into my back room.just had some pipes put in,so fingers crossed when it rains,it goes in the drain and not into the room.cheers sue

You wouldn't have wanted to be around the very first time I ever used a dishwasher. I loaded it perfectly and neatly. I grabbed the liquid dish soap (the kind used to hand wash dishes) and filled the cute little tray inside the dishwasher, closed and locked the door and turned it on. Then I went to bed, lulled to sleep by the whoosh whoosh sounds of a machine cleaning my dishes. I was rudely awoken at 4 AM by my then sweetie who came home to a kitchen full of white foamy suds. They were ALL over the floor and working their way into the living room getting precariously close to his TV and playstation. I woke up and asked what the problem was and through clenched teeth I was advised never EVER to do another dish again. That was 15 years ago. I don't think I have run a dishwasher more than 3 dozen times since.

I live in an apartment and I had just flushed the toilet, thinking all was well, went into the kitchen to pop some popcorn and then heard the sound of running water. I first did recon as I thought I had left water in the sink. But no... The water was flowing from the toilet. I thought it was from a pipe as it quickly flooded my bathroom. It was about 9 p.m. I called the after hours people to report the emergency and then ran to the apartment of our maintenance person and expressed panic. He came down and turned off the water, said that something had gotten stuck, found that there were other problems in addition and mopped up the floor putting everything in the tub and leaving a nice mess to clean in the morning... No ducks arrived. No fish showed up for a dress rehearsal. No mice were in the area. The carpet remained wet for some time and there is a hope that it will be getting cleaned soon.

That's gotta suck!! I had a similar situation. A few years ago we lived in an apartment complez and had one of those little portable apartment size washer/dryer combos. You have to put the hose in the sink when draining...can be a real big hassle. Anyway I started the drain cycle and with the sound of gushing water, and my 7 month old baby pushing down on my bladder, had to rush off to the other room. I heard it, but couldn't do anything about it. The hose had dislodged itself and completed itself on the kitchen floor.

http://uk.youtube.com/watch?v=Bo77GvXSpoA http://uk.youtube.com/watch?v=NOmBJMpeGdA&feature=related If those links have posted then maybe they'll be helpful in explaining what's happened to your machine. ;) Mr.Panda is the one that normally has problems like that, he'll be fiddling and muttering and moaning that the machine doesn't work or the lock's stuck or whatever and I'll just go and touch it and hey presto it works! Hmmm, maybe all machines are female, just a thought. :)

Cool I wish we had an indoor pool I know we have the room for one but my parents just dont want one. They dont want to have to go through the work of cleaning it every so often. And they think that I wouldnt use it which I would when its hot out and after work since it soothes your body. And an indoor pool you can use all year round which is cool would love to go swimming during the winter.

I love the references to the mice. One morning I woke up to my boyfriend standing in the bedroom door with a sheepish look on his face. Sensing something was amiss, but not yet awake, I refused to ask, but looked down and saw he and the dog immersed in what seemed like a foot of water. The dog had a terrified look in its eye and seemed rather glued to the carpet, not knowing whether to stay put or run like hell. It was almost as if she was waiting for me to give her a suggestion of one sort or another. Turns out my boyfriend had fallen asleep while waiting on his bath to fill and woke to an indoor swimming pool. Lucky for us we have a carpet shampooer that can swallow water as quickly as the bath was spitting it out. But guess who got to get up out of bed and utilize the darn thing?

hi pikefish nope no domesic drama today unless you consider that I made some gravy to go with my roast beef out of the brown bits in the bottom of myu baking dish and it was delicious. but about an hour later I was having more cramps so checked my blood glucose which read 200 yikes. much too high seems my glyburide just did not cover my yummy gravy lol and the high glucose triggered my IBS which meant some major pain again.But my glucose reading did drop after I took another glyburide pill and now I am feeling just great. How funny that the washer would all of a sudden work just great for your wife. maybe she said the majic words. work or else.