Seriously!
I got up this morning, planning to start my massive washing of clothes since I removed the summer clothing from my closet. The winter clothes are all stored all stored outside in the garage. With raccoons and other critters here in Texas, the space saver and so on bags don’t work. In fact, it seems as if they encourage the beasties.
So I went through, took a bunch of work pants and cleared even more room in my closet (while happily finding that I was too lazy to put up the nice dress sweater and so on!). And I sorted the clothes to be ready to wash.
But when I went to wash my face, there was a trickle of hot water. I heard the water running, so I got dressed, washed in the ice cold water. Since I figured with my luck I will have to go outside, I needed the contacts.
I had helper Connor with me. And lo and behold, he really helped! Calling hubs, he walked me through turning the hot water off. I did this and went inside, but I had noticed Connor kept running underneath the house then coming back to me and looking at me. I went inside to grab a towel and looked under the house. Sure enough, in the smack middle of the house, a pipe is spraying water.
I have mentioned before we live in Houston, and the house I live in is a raised pier house. It’s not the stilt-like houses, but its about 2 feet above ground. Great most of the time for flooding, but not for anything else. I have a rug underneath my desk for a reason, since in the winter the cold comes right up. The part of the house the office is in, was built in the 1920’s.
Thankfully, when the hot water heater broke, M had worked with the plumber and learned where to turn off the water. So now, I am waterless, and trying to find someone to come out on Thanksgiving week.
Fun Times.
I am getting ready to start reading and making banners. I will time everything to show up for Thanksgiving. I may end up taking down the main page to make this happen, so no worries if it goes missing.
I will also be trying to get a chapter of Clocks up for you ladies as well. Just a reminder, the ladies in the Facebook group will know before you guys. I gotta reward them for being awesome!!!! And those who haunt the site, might find a link or two early…..
So have a great week, and I will be dealing with no water. You never know how much you use water until you don’t have it.
This mightn’t make you feel much better, but there are a couple of bright spots to where your leaking pipe is. Number one – you won’t need to rip out walls to get at it. Number two – no flooded basement to deal with. Hopefully you filled a few buckets or jugs with cold water before shutting the water off. No fun being without water. I’ve not forgotten the huge power failure we had here in Toronto a couple of years ago just before Christmas – I had no water for five days as the pumps weren’t working. Hopefully you will manage to find a plumber, and he doesn’t charge you an arm and a leg to get it fixed at this time of year.
Have you considered some extra styrofoam insulation under your office floor? With the house mounted on piers it sounds like it shouldn’t be that difficult to get at. Might help a bit with your heating bills too.
If you are getting a new hot water heater go tankless if you can. Moved from a house with one to one without one and man was I ever spoiled. Have fun making the banners. I always enjoy yours. They seem seamless.