Straight Busted

First let me apologize for the lack of posting goodness yesterday. I promise I’ve got a really good excuse:

At all started with me waking up at 5:00 AM with an extreme urge to go to the bathroom (#1). I got about halfway to our bathroom when I realized I heard running water. Just for clarification, it wasn’t running water like the faucet was running, but I could hear water moving through the pipes. Which probably meant water running somewhere like behind a wall or under the floors.

So I woke Kari up to make sure I wasn’t imagining things. She confirmed the same thing: water was running from somewhere. We sprang into action checking all the sinks, toilets, and water connection like the washing machine and the water heater. I even tried all the shutoff valves on the sinks/toilets. Results: nothing. We didn’t find any wet spots anywhere. Time to check under the house.

I grabbed a flash light and headed out to the crawlspace. Thankfully there is enough room to do a low crouch and not be terribly uncomfortable. Under there I could hear the water running in the pipes, but I couldn’t see any wet spots…either on the ground or on the floor above. As a side note, I did find a daily planner down there from 1963. It was called the Daily Dally.

Then I tried the last thing…I went and turned the water off at the main. And guess what? The flowing water sound stopped. At this point it was around 5:45 AM. We decided to leave the water turned off and try to get some sleep before calling a plumber.

Honestly, it’s hard trying to go back to sleep after all that.

I got out of bed just before 7:00 and got back under the house to see if any water had seeped through the floor where it was leaking. Still nothing. We turned the water back on long enough to get a shower. Right after Kari left for work, I called the plumber.

They arrived about an hour later and checked the place out. Like me, they couldn’t find anything either. But they did recognize the sound was coming in from the water main. So they turned off the main, cut the main off where it enters the house, and capped it. When the turned on the main, the running water sound came back.

That only meant one thing: the pipe from the main to the house had busted in the ground.

Which was good news because that meant no water damage in the house (especially on our new wood floors). The part that was so fun was when they found out that pipe is buried 6ft in the ground. It’s never easy is it? Because our house is on a slope, I guess they had to put the pipe down that deep. On top of that, because I live in the “big city” they have to get approval from the city before they dig so they don’t cut a power to gas line.

Thankfully they ran a temp line above the ground and they should come back today or tomorrow to dig the trench and lay a new pipe about 24 – 30 inches in the ground.

At least we have running water.

And that’s why there wasn’t a post yesterday.

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