I came home last night to find several things.
1) The mother was only slightly exaggerating.
2) The water heater was fine.
3) There were no leaks in the walls.
This pointed the finger in one direction: the sink and the overflow pipe! Touched the end and found it wet. Ta-dah. Luckily, more than half of the water that had been backing up in the drain had rolled directly into the sump pump hole. I bailed out quite a bit of it and turned to the handy dandy Shop Vac to get the rest.
I found with disgust that our ginormous ShopVac that I'd bought last year, apparently came WITHOUT a foam sleeve for water pick-up. WTF?
I swabbed and scrubbed the floor and set up the dehumidifier. On today's list of things to do is to buy the missing foam sleeve and suck out the remaining water. Then I can clean the cache hole and this chapter will be closed.
A-men!
A non-professional,faux home improvement blog dedicated to the insane yet diligent do-it-yourselfer,thoroughly peppered with random views and thoughts from me
3 comments:
Very glad to hear it wasn't one of the 2 more serious scenarios. But like you, I'm baffled that your ShopVac came without the foam sleeve.
As a veteran of very many water clean-ups, it is a recurrent nightmare of mine to walk downstairs and find squishy carpet or swampy concrete! No fun, too back about the shop-vac! It is all NOT FUN, NOT ONE LITTLE BIT!
Kate -- Thanks! Yeah, I've owned a lot of ShopVacs through the years so this was a stunner for me. I did see in the manual where it said "not standard with all vacs" when discussing the foam sleeve. Strange cost-cutting measure I guess.
sewwhat -- I know you have for many reasons and on many occasions.
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