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Something you may want to consider...

October 22nd, 2007 at 03:25 am

Well this has to do with finances only in a round about way... but in any case, I will post it here.

If you live where you have a clothes washer without any water overflow drainage next to it (or even if you do), you may want to consider turning off the water before any long (or even short) trips.

I came home late Friday from work and found the water hose burst sometime during the day and half the first floor was flooded. The burst was on the top of the hose, so water was spraying upwards into shelving full of things, including some cardboard storage boxes, so the mess was imense. Obviously this wasn't a trip, but I can only imagine if this had happened while I was away for a week (as I have done twice this summer). Using a carpet water vac, moving furniture, ripping up carpet - oh yeah, this weekend was fun.

(Finance note: I needed to clean up as fast as possible, otherwise there could be damage to the house and then the cost would sky rocket)

One thing of note. Some time back I was thinking about something like this happening, so I had the water turned on just enough that the tub could fill properly. So I only needed to make a quarter turn to turn off the water. What would have happened if the water was on full blast??? Lets just say I don't want to go there.

4 Responses to “Something you may want to consider...”

  1. JanH Says:
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    Wow, thanks for the heads up! Hope there wasn't too much damage to your home.

  2. Ima saver Says:
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    That is why I always have the washer in my garage. No inside laundry room for me~

  3. fern Says:
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    This same thing happened to my sister years ago, and i always remembered her advice to turn the water off on the washer when you're done using it. I admit it's a pain to do that each time, so i don't, but i do ususally turn it off when going away overnight. Thanks for the reminder.

  4. Single Guy Says:
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    Yeah, I really didn't want the washer in the house, but thats the way the house came (1960). I talked with a contractor about setting up a connection there, but it would have required destroying a good chunk of the garage floor, plus some of the house's cement slab. It was originally in the kitchen, but I got it moved to a back room. In either case, there would have been pain with a burst water hose.

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