Insert String of Swearing Here
Mar. 28th, 2004 01:50 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
qosI have water on my floor again.
AGAIN!
I didn't know anything was wrong until I walked into my office today and the carpet went *squish*.
So up came the carpet -- and almost everything that was in my office is now in my entryway, living room, kitchen and bedroom -- and we dried the floor and checked everything. At first, the area around the water heater appeared to be dry. But when I went back later, it was very wet, and it continued to get wet after I toweled it up.
20 lines of typing deleted here. I thought it was the water heater leaking. But now the floor around it is staying dry. So maybe what I was seeing was the last of the water coming through the wall or the foundation behind my bookcases.
You know: the bookcases that are secured to the wall because we sometimes have earthquakes here. . .
If it's not the water heater, then most likely I'll have to back up several hundred books, undo the hardware holding the bookcases to the wall, move the bookcases, and then my ex husband will have to cut a hole in the wall and find the leak point, as he did in my bedroom. Or - preferrably - the insurance company will pay for a contractor to do it, since the likely cause of the flooding is the landscaping work done by the neighbors who live up a hill directly next to us, which may give us basis for a claim and the money to have it handled by a professional.
I don't know what we're going to do. It's a bright, sunny day here - and yesterday was a beautiful day too. So it's likely the water came in a few days ago. (I don't use my "office" for much except storage. My desk is in the living room, so I can be closer to my daughter while I do my work. That's why I didn't discover the problem sooner. If indeed it happened a few days ago during the latest bout of persistent rain.)
Arrrgghhhh!
AGAIN!
I didn't know anything was wrong until I walked into my office today and the carpet went *squish*.
So up came the carpet -- and almost everything that was in my office is now in my entryway, living room, kitchen and bedroom -- and we dried the floor and checked everything. At first, the area around the water heater appeared to be dry. But when I went back later, it was very wet, and it continued to get wet after I toweled it up.
20 lines of typing deleted here. I thought it was the water heater leaking. But now the floor around it is staying dry. So maybe what I was seeing was the last of the water coming through the wall or the foundation behind my bookcases.
You know: the bookcases that are secured to the wall because we sometimes have earthquakes here. . .
If it's not the water heater, then most likely I'll have to back up several hundred books, undo the hardware holding the bookcases to the wall, move the bookcases, and then my ex husband will have to cut a hole in the wall and find the leak point, as he did in my bedroom. Or - preferrably - the insurance company will pay for a contractor to do it, since the likely cause of the flooding is the landscaping work done by the neighbors who live up a hill directly next to us, which may give us basis for a claim and the money to have it handled by a professional.
I don't know what we're going to do. It's a bright, sunny day here - and yesterday was a beautiful day too. So it's likely the water came in a few days ago. (I don't use my "office" for much except storage. My desk is in the living room, so I can be closer to my daughter while I do my work. That's why I didn't discover the problem sooner. If indeed it happened a few days ago during the latest bout of persistent rain.)
Arrrgghhhh!
