pete f
02-07-2005, 09:29 PM
A novel by Pete f.
I have had water in one place or another, at one time up to 3 places, for the last month or so. I think I have a dry floor now.
It started simply with a minute leak in a T under the bulkhead feeding the washer spigots. I had gooped this T a couple years ago, it held pretty good. My plumber had just finished my new mat and I had a credit coming. I did not have time to mess with this small job, and being schedule 80 pipe, could not readily buy the material, he agreed to fix it for the amount I had coming back. I had to shut the water down for about 1/2 day and that nite for the pipe to cure out. The next day I noticed a bulge in the washer hose that was next to that tap so I replaced the hose, turned the water back on and thought life was good.
For the net couple days I saw a very small amount of water on the floor. I figure it is new customers using Dexter washers. About the third day I notice water around my old Milnor. It would leak slightly out the front door from time to time, I do nothing. About a week into this, the water is still coming from somewhere near the T repair. i check and check, can;'t see any leak. I run my hands on all the hose, and one comes up wet on the backside. It is the hose I had replaced..! It was leaking. I replace it. Over at the Milnor seems more water around it, but has been busy.. now seems their is water on the floor in the hot water heater room. I check it out, can;t find any leak. I dry everything, put a cam in. Day or two later there is major water around the Milnor. I run it, water is communing from somewhere I can;t see. I decide to junk the washer and buy a new one. Back in then hot water room more water on the floor, the heater is out. I am worry some leak inside the heater puts the pilot out. Clean, relite, come back the next day. seems OK. A day or two later I see lots of water in the room, I happen to look outside and see the over flow tube has water gushing out of it. It is next to the wall of the heater room,. I figure this is where the water is come from. I don;t know what to do, it is spitting hot water out as fast as it can. I shut the timer down, it shuts down the gas. As the water cools down the rate of flow out the overflow lessons. I figure the t-stat is bad, and when it heats up the safety valve blows open. I can run without hot water for a few days until I get it fixed or new heators.... I call a guy, he checks it out, says the safety valve itself is bad, he will get one in a few days. The floor is dry the nite before he checks the heater, as I have the thing shut down. . He fire it back up, says it will run at a lower temp no problem, and gets the valve changed out 2 days later. My cleaning lady says she sees water in the office, which is next to the heater room the day before. I am wondering now. I go the day after the heater is fixed and see some water in the heater room again. Now I am wondering if it is coming up from the floor drain. I check the lint trap, it seems OK, no apparent cloggage. The cam never worked because the light in the heater room goes on and off for hours at a time, so the cam is not so good in the dark. I had it aimed at the drain for a few days, I see difference but no overflows..I am getting tired of water, and take Friday off. Sat eve we go to refill changers and walk into a small flood. Water everywhere inside the mat. We sweep/mop it all out. As I am pushing water out the door in the heater room I watch the floor drain, it sort of lets the water go back in. I notice their was some big wash customers. I am convinced my problem now is the drain line after the lint trap. Sunday I gear up, take all my drain cleaner tools and stuff and snake the line. At that time the lint trap is full, by full I mean up to the tops of the block, and it should be about 1 foot lower, and water is in the office again. The snake goes in and within a minute I hit something, the water drains fast. I pull the snake, it has a crunched beer can attached to it. I think I have fixed it.I clean up, mop up go home and have a big cigar. I get a call the next day, the water heater not on. Oh crap. what now. I go over, and it is the timer. It is set at 3am and is now 12:30 Pm, so I change it and the heater fires up.
I think to myself, what a pain, this reminds me of store #3 when I bought it, there was water only the floor for 2 months. Just when you think you have solved the leak another pops up at the same time or you had 2 or 3 leaks going at once. I am tired of water, thinking of selling my boat now.:)
I have had water in one place or another, at one time up to 3 places, for the last month or so. I think I have a dry floor now.
It started simply with a minute leak in a T under the bulkhead feeding the washer spigots. I had gooped this T a couple years ago, it held pretty good. My plumber had just finished my new mat and I had a credit coming. I did not have time to mess with this small job, and being schedule 80 pipe, could not readily buy the material, he agreed to fix it for the amount I had coming back. I had to shut the water down for about 1/2 day and that nite for the pipe to cure out. The next day I noticed a bulge in the washer hose that was next to that tap so I replaced the hose, turned the water back on and thought life was good.
For the net couple days I saw a very small amount of water on the floor. I figure it is new customers using Dexter washers. About the third day I notice water around my old Milnor. It would leak slightly out the front door from time to time, I do nothing. About a week into this, the water is still coming from somewhere near the T repair. i check and check, can;'t see any leak. I run my hands on all the hose, and one comes up wet on the backside. It is the hose I had replaced..! It was leaking. I replace it. Over at the Milnor seems more water around it, but has been busy.. now seems their is water on the floor in the hot water heater room. I check it out, can;t find any leak. I dry everything, put a cam in. Day or two later there is major water around the Milnor. I run it, water is communing from somewhere I can;t see. I decide to junk the washer and buy a new one. Back in then hot water room more water on the floor, the heater is out. I am worry some leak inside the heater puts the pilot out. Clean, relite, come back the next day. seems OK. A day or two later I see lots of water in the room, I happen to look outside and see the over flow tube has water gushing out of it. It is next to the wall of the heater room,. I figure this is where the water is come from. I don;t know what to do, it is spitting hot water out as fast as it can. I shut the timer down, it shuts down the gas. As the water cools down the rate of flow out the overflow lessons. I figure the t-stat is bad, and when it heats up the safety valve blows open. I can run without hot water for a few days until I get it fixed or new heators.... I call a guy, he checks it out, says the safety valve itself is bad, he will get one in a few days. The floor is dry the nite before he checks the heater, as I have the thing shut down. . He fire it back up, says it will run at a lower temp no problem, and gets the valve changed out 2 days later. My cleaning lady says she sees water in the office, which is next to the heater room the day before. I am wondering now. I go the day after the heater is fixed and see some water in the heater room again. Now I am wondering if it is coming up from the floor drain. I check the lint trap, it seems OK, no apparent cloggage. The cam never worked because the light in the heater room goes on and off for hours at a time, so the cam is not so good in the dark. I had it aimed at the drain for a few days, I see difference but no overflows..I am getting tired of water, and take Friday off. Sat eve we go to refill changers and walk into a small flood. Water everywhere inside the mat. We sweep/mop it all out. As I am pushing water out the door in the heater room I watch the floor drain, it sort of lets the water go back in. I notice their was some big wash customers. I am convinced my problem now is the drain line after the lint trap. Sunday I gear up, take all my drain cleaner tools and stuff and snake the line. At that time the lint trap is full, by full I mean up to the tops of the block, and it should be about 1 foot lower, and water is in the office again. The snake goes in and within a minute I hit something, the water drains fast. I pull the snake, it has a crunched beer can attached to it. I think I have fixed it.I clean up, mop up go home and have a big cigar. I get a call the next day, the water heater not on. Oh crap. what now. I go over, and it is the timer. It is set at 3am and is now 12:30 Pm, so I change it and the heater fires up.
I think to myself, what a pain, this reminds me of store #3 when I bought it, there was water only the floor for 2 months. Just when you think you have solved the leak another pops up at the same time or you had 2 or 3 leaks going at once. I am tired of water, thinking of selling my boat now.:)