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Late this morning as I walked down the back hallway, I heard a rushing sound coming from the cold air return vent. I thought I better get down there ASAP to replace the furnace filter. About halfway down the stairs I realized that the sound was the water meter howling. Oh Crap!!! [scared] [scared] [scared]
Without even looking around for the source, I raced (hobbled) to the main to shut it off. (I'm recovering from a recent abdominal surgery, so hobble is about the best I can do right now.) Surprisingly, there was no water on the floor between the stairs and the main shut off, because all of the plumbing passes through that area.
I didn't even look around the shop. I immediately rushed up to the 2nd floor master bathroom to asses the damage. All of the fixture plumbing up there passes vertically through 14-feet of exterior wall. Whew, dry as a bone. Thankfully, so was the 1st floor ceiling, walls, and carpet below it. Hmmm?
So I ventured back down to the workshop. I have an inch of standing water in the machining room. That's not good, but obviously it is a low spot in the floor because it hadn't spread to the rest of the shop. So if it wasn't coming from the master bathroom lines, Where?!? That's when I remembered the rarely used spigot right behind the Festool Wall of Shame. [eek] [eek]
So the whole wall and fixed shelving unit have to get pulled out to get access to the stud bay behind it. It's the only part of my shop that is kept clean, and now I have to rip that apart. Grrr.
Without even looking around for the source, I raced (hobbled) to the main to shut it off. (I'm recovering from a recent abdominal surgery, so hobble is about the best I can do right now.) Surprisingly, there was no water on the floor between the stairs and the main shut off, because all of the plumbing passes through that area.
I didn't even look around the shop. I immediately rushed up to the 2nd floor master bathroom to asses the damage. All of the fixture plumbing up there passes vertically through 14-feet of exterior wall. Whew, dry as a bone. Thankfully, so was the 1st floor ceiling, walls, and carpet below it. Hmmm?
So I ventured back down to the workshop. I have an inch of standing water in the machining room. That's not good, but obviously it is a low spot in the floor because it hadn't spread to the rest of the shop. So if it wasn't coming from the master bathroom lines, Where?!? That's when I remembered the rarely used spigot right behind the Festool Wall of Shame. [eek] [eek]
So the whole wall and fixed shelving unit have to get pulled out to get access to the stud bay behind it. It's the only part of my shop that is kept clean, and now I have to rip that apart. Grrr.
