Thursday night I was in the bathroom (downstairs, of course) and I heard a sudden sound like water going on full force. Oh god! What now? Is someone using my water outside? No. I knew I didn't have any water on anywhere, but the washer had been on earlier. Okay, upstairs I go, slowly because of the cast on my foot. It's coming from the bathroom. :-?
I see a wet area on the carpet by the bathroom door. I hop in and it is squishy, splashy wet. Oh no! I get to the bathroom and turn on the light. Water is
pouring out of the hose going into the toilet. Okay, I can stop this fast by turning that off. But I have to step in on my right foot to get into the bathroom, The water is about 1" deep. One quick step on my cast will be okay. I get my knee up on the toilet seat with my left foot in the water and get the water turned off.
Then I look around. What a mess! I gotta get this water off the floor before it leaks through. So I empty the bucket of the tools (from the work I was doing up there earlier this year) and start scooping. I scoop and scoop and scoop some more until there isn't enough to scoop. Then I take some big sponges I have up there and start sopping up the water and filling the bucket that way. All this bending is tiring. But I can't kneel on the floor until I get a big enough dry spot where I can put my leg with the cast, which I finally do. I end up getting the cast a little bit wet at the toe which I dry out with the hair dryer.
I finally get the floor dry, even with the backflow of water from the carpet. Now to tackle the carpet. It is soaked. But I'm able to move a few things out of the way enough to get the whole wet part cleared off. I try to sponge it up, but it's like sponging from a sponge. I finally get as much done as I'm going to. Then I put the fan on to see how much it will blow dry over night.
Next plumbing to do is replace the hoses and connections on both toilets! And check the hose on the washer!!!!! Within the month!
I had help getting a wet vac and a dehumidifier to try to dry the carpet out. I did have help getting the carpet wet vac'd. And I did more later. But I don't know if it's working. This is a mess and hard to take care of with 2 good legs much less with one in a cast.
I was getting very disgruntled and feeling really bad about this. Then I realized that if I didn't have a cast on my leg I would have been gone this weekend to the 49er Rally. If this had haappened while I was gone for an extended weekend, that water would have been spurting out for days instead of minutes and the water would have flowed through the whole upstairs and then through the whole downstairs before anyone would have noticed it flowing out the doors.
So, I ask you, am I lucky or what?
