It's another!!!
Yesterday was a very good and than a bad day. It started with Dan bringing me chocolate ice cream in bed. Seriously...can a day start any better? He was trying to make my sore throat feel better. Ahhh!
Dan and Jaelyn headed out to procure us a storage unit while I pulled out things from the basement to move. In addition to the storage unit, Dan also procured fertilizer so we can make our grass green and inviting to potential buyers. It was weed and feed so we turned the water on to the outside spigots (this is an important detail, so remember it). After fertilizing, we made two trips to the storage unit and one trip to the dump. The kids were such good helpers throughout the day that we took them to Broom's Bloom Dairy on our way home for ice cream.
As soon as we got home, I discovered water leaking in our laundry room. The water was leaking from a floor joist about 2 feet from the wall. We couldn't see where the water was coming from. Directly above the leak was just wood floor. Dan did some further investigating and discovered the pipe to our outside spigot was leaking. It was going down the wall to the basement and must have been running between the plywood sub-floor and foyer hard wood floor until it found a spot to leak down in the laundry room below. And I'm so thankful for the laundry room leak because we might not have discovered the other leak for days. What a mess. The water was on for at least 4 hours. It looks like the pipe has been a problem before because there's a patch on the wall behind the pipe. I was able to remove the patch so it'll be easy for a plumber to come fix it. You should have seen the water shooting out when Dan turned the water back on. I've had fans blowing on high ever since trying to dry everything up.
So...Monday morning, bright and early, a call to a plumber is number one on my to do list! And after that, I have another car load of stuff to go to the storage unit and then Goodwill. It's time to get busy and make our house look move in ready!
Just a question out of curiosity? Why the storage unit? To store the stuff you don't want to take to the new place? So eventually you hope to move back the the area you live in now?
ReplyDeleteOH DEAR! well, at least it wasn't a boring day?
ReplyDeleteThe storage unit is because we have way to much stuff. We'll take the stuff with us. I'm emptying out closets and staging the house to make it more open and appealing to buyers.
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