Apres Le Deluge, C'est Bullshit!

Yeah that's not quite what the Frog King said, but it fits my situation.

Remember the sink? Guess what? It wasn't bolted to the wall. It was plastered to the wall and not very well. Or well enough to last until after the installers left. I never go into that bloody bathroom. My wheelchair doesn't fit. Had I had the house built, it would have been a closet.

I rolled out to get the mail yesterday and when I came back in, I saw an expanding puddle of water outside the half bath and heard the sound of running water. Holy Shit! The sink was on the floor and it had pulled the cold water line out of the wall.

I put on my braces and walked out to the garage and was able to climb up on the hot water heater platform and turn off the main water line.

I got back in and called a 24 hour plumbing service. The first service said they could have someone out the next day. Doesn't sound like 24 hour service to me. The second service said they could get someone there in about an hour.

I started cleaning up the water when the plumber called. He was in Acworth. Getting from Acworth to Dunwoody is a pain in the ass anytime. At 4:30 in the afternoon, it really sucks.

So, Larry the plumber showed up about an hour later. I had all the water off the surface by then. I said that as long as he was fixing the sink, raise it up and put the pedestal under it. He would have had to do that anyway. He had to cut out some of the drywall to get to the cold water line.

He got everything fixed and gave me the name of a drywall installer. He also gave me the name of a water removal service. They came by this morning. While they were here, I called the floor people and told them what the water guys would charge. He said he could fix it up himself.

When he got here, he told me to call the water guys back.

In the meantime, the drywall guy came to inspect what he needed to do. I also told him to give me an estimate on the drywall in the laundry room that my dear departed Doofus had scratched. My sister has been bugging me about that. She doesn't want to have to have a lot of work done to sell the house after I die. That's my sister. More worried about the house than her dear brother. I bet this will piss her off.

So the water guys came back and sucked a lot of water out of the carpeting that got wet. They then set up seven fans and three heavy duty dehumidifiers. I cannot hear myself think! Plus the dehumidifiers are sucking the saliva out of my mouth. They've been running for four hours and there is still a lot of water flowing through their drain lines.

The fans and dehumidifiers are gonna be running nonstop for three days.

AAARRRRGGGHHHHH!

Posted by denny at August 26, 2005 08:15 PM