I almost had a flood

I told you about my floods in a previous response. Oh boy do I wish I had caused a bigger fuss when that happened. I just got so defeated when it happened over and over. Sometimes at night I would hear my sink gurgle, and I'd rush to the sink, praying none of the garage would get to the top of the sink and overflow.

Oh gosh, yes, I know what you are talking about. I live in a condo on the 7th floor. My washer and dryer are in their own tiny little room down the hall from the kitchen. One evening I was watching TV in the Living Room while doing a wash. All of a sudden I heard that splashing sound. I ran down the hall which was already full of water and tried to turn off the washing machine. The water kept coming. I frantically phoned for the super. He came up and helped me spread towels and blankets on the floors to soak of the water. By then the machine had emptied, it turned out that the drainage pipe had jumped out of its pipe in the wall and emptied the water. All the water was in the hall, in my bedroom, in the den, and at the little hall that led to my guest room. Then there was a knock at the door and my neighbour from the 6th floor stood there very upset. The water had come through a closet in his front hall. By that time my cousin had arrived and he and I went down to the 6th floor apartment to see the damage there. Luckily it was just in the the front hall closet. I got that repaired and paid for it since my insurance would not and these people said they had no ninsurance. I phoned my insurance and they sent someone over. One of my handwoven rugs in the hall was totally destroyed. The natural colours had bled into each other. The parquet floor in the two halls, my den and my bedroom had started to lift up and buckle. The insurance people proposed to replace all the floors even the parts with no water damage since the new parquet would have a slightly different colour. The also sent me to an oriental rug dealer to evaluate the carpet. It was evaluated at $ 1000. The insurance company told be to buy a similar rug and it would be paid for. I did so and I told them I did not want all the floors ripped out only repared. They did that and waved the $500. deductable. I was happy. It was true that you could see the difference in the parquet where it was repaired, however, now after two years the colour is the same and you can no longer tell the difference. The reason being that the original parquet was still almost brand new. Now I am so scared to use my washing machine. It is making a strange noise. I cannot afford to buy a new one since my Condo fees are going up all the time and my pension is the same. So I wash in the basement of our building. There are two machines there. One for large articles at $ 2.50 a load and one regular washer for $ 1.25 per load. Since I usually have two load a week, one light, one dark I figure I will do this until I have enough money to buy a new machine. I want a front loader and they are more expensive. That is the saga of my flood.

Wow, glad you caught that. I have had our washers stop agitating but never had te pump bust on them before. Glad you were able to get that fixed and not have to wait to long. Last thing I fixed at my house because I waited and waited for my husband to do it and he didn't was put new door knobs on 4 doors in our house, I had waited almost 2 years and finally back in May I took the broke ones out and put in the new ones. My husband didn't even notice for a week.. I waited seeing if he would..

damn first one didnt go thru . any way Son in law fixed shower in their bathroom as it was leaking hot water. Last flood we had was our faut dogs were fighting so we used the hose on them boy mopping up was a mess

I moved into my current house five years ago now, we bought the house and so we came to look at it a couple of times before we actually moved in. All was fine, no apparent problems and so we bought it. When we moved in however we realised that there was a problem with the boiler, a big problem, it was leaking and the previous owners had covered the leak up with towels. We noticed it because the ceiling started getting wet and lumps of it started falling off! In the end we had to have a whole new tank to stop it so it was a costly repair!

Speaking of water problem, floods, pipe burst or whatever that's not really worst than mine which until now I could not solve it. Our water pipelines was being installed underneath our ground. From the water meter pipes laid beneath the ground which supposedly not the right thing to do. The pipes runs underneath passing through our ground tiled flooring. We knew it has a leak because we consumed a huge amount of water which we paid that we were not using it. We tried to closed all faucets to see if the meter would still run and it was. Until now we never done it yet because it is so expensive if you want it repaired. What we did is, we just turn it on if we're going to use it and turn off the main valve if we would not be using it. This is the big headache which until now we are encountering... Mobhomeir here..