When it rains, it pours!
Our house is OLD! And so, we never know quite what to expect. I thought I'd share what we've experienced in the last month. The Monday before Christmas, I was washing dishes and heard a strange "whoosh," As I looked up, a waterfall was flowing down the wall behind the refrigerator!! Todd rushed down to the basement to turn the main water valve off so we could find out what was going on. We discovered that the pipes upstairs had burst due to the cold. Fortunately, we have a friend who's dad is a plumber. He hadn't left for Christmas break yet, so he came over and replaced it for us. Meanwhile, the kids were trying to mop up about an inch of water on the kitchen floor! I wish I had had a video camera going, because it was really quite funny!!!A couple weeks later, Todd got up to go to work and none of the water in the house was working. We discovered that the main water line had frozen. A couple days later and a brillant husband, and we had water again with no broken pipes, thank goodness!
During all this, the bathroom sink decided to call it quits for awhile. We could not use the hot water or the drain, so we brushed teeth and hands in the bathtub.
Then, the toilet handle decided to break. For a couple of weeks, we were flushing the toilet by pulling a string Dexter had tied to the chain. I don't think this one affected the kids too much as it seems as though I am the only one who flushes the toilet anyway!!
Talk about your memories! I'm sure someday we'll look back and just laugh and laugh (at least I hope so!!)
posted by Bente @ 1:36 PM
1 Comments:
Love the photo! Too funny. Yeah, we've had the string-flush strategy going on before. Unfortunately frozen water lines do happen when the heat is turned down low. We were fortunate enough only to have to deal with that when we first moved in. Though we have had random critters strolling into the basement that was not completely sealed off from the elements last year, a sump-pump pipe that twisted the wrong way and recycled water into the basement rather than out of it, and we've had no lights in the upstairs bathroom for so long we forget that using a lamp for light up there isn't normal! Oh the joys of the fixer-upper. But I love your house. Hopefully someday in the not-too-distant future you will too! ;)
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