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If you ever need to know how to flood a townhome just ask. At night if I get up I often stop at the bathroom sink and splash some water on my face for my dry eyes and return to bed. Around 4 am Saturday I got up and discovered that I had left a tap running in my third floor bathroom and my feet were in the water that had over flowed. The dryer fans are still running this Monday. It is like standing behind and airliner that is taking off. The noise is constant. There are six dryers and a dehumidifier running in my bedroom. Three fans and a dehumidifier are running in the living room. Much of the living room ceiling will be replaced. The rug seems dry. The laminate flooring had been very good with spills, but we shall see. The dryers running in the garage have dried the kayaks and the trike seat. That ceiling may need work. Have my laptop on one of the balconies away from the noise. Servpro seems to be doing a good job. Hope you have been faring better.
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 Clearly no overflow drain on the sink in question....or just not working....
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| knitterati Beatification Candidate  |
Ouch. So sorry for your troubles!
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| Serial origamist Has Achieved Nirvana  |
Shoot. So sorry, man. That well and truly sucks.
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| Pinta & the Santa Maria Has Achieved Nirvana  |
Oh, no! Floods, even small ones, are the worst. | |||
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| "I've got morons on my team." Mitt Romney Minor Deity  |
A while ago we had a leak in our attic humidifier. The water dutifully poured into the pan, but the outlet of the pan was corroded and blocked. The water simply built up in the insulation until ... crash, the second floor ceiling collapsed and its soppy mess came down. That was a major headache and repair. Fortunate for homeowner's insurance for that one. Lemons to lemonade, we turned the attic into 500 square feet of additional space. I feel your pain. | |||
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Oh, dear, CHAS...what a mess.  Closest we came is a pipe burst in the basement (old pipe material failed) and poured onto a grand piano being stored in the basement. Got some insurance money for the piano, but that old piano was not in great shape to begin with. Still somebody on PianoWorld wanted it, so I gave it to him for the cost of shipping. To TEXAS.
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Ugg. Sometimes sh!t happens. My advice? Just tilt your head up to the sunshine, imagine the fans are ocean breezes, that your deck is a dock, and enjoy some Otis | |||
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Omg, how awful. I am so sorry. I remember how loud those fans were when our fridge wrecked the kitchen floor. I can’t imagine a houseful of them. 
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Spending my days on one of the balconies or walking nearby. Cannot take the noise. Got a clean hotel/ motel room at mud season price because the bed is covered with things from the closet. There are two fans in the closet and the other four are near the bed. Had every intention of clearing that slow drain this week
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| czarina Has Achieved Nirvana  |
Sorry about your home disaster and thank you for the PSA. I needed to hear about this. We live in what is called a "rambler"--2,000 square feet all on one level. I swear I walk 20,000 steps a day just going from one end of the house to the other. Anyway, the hot water heater is at one end of the house, the bathroom I use in the morning is at the other end. It takes so long for the hot water to reach that bathroom--and I hate cold water--that I have a routine of turning on the tap in the bathroom sink when I first wake up, then go and make coffee and read my email while I wait for the water to get hot so I can wash my face. More than once I've gotten wrapped up in an email or message exchange for so long, that only much later do I realize the water must still be running in the bathroom. Panic ensues as I run to the other end of the house, hoping the sink is doing its job and still draining. Remarkably the water is usually still plenty hot enough to wash my face.  now as to the dry eyes, maybe eye drops would be a better alternative to water?
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Ugh. Sorry to hear this. Have you started lining up contractors to fix your place back up?
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| Foregoing Vacation to Post |
Pique, you need a recirculating pump. It will keep hot water available at your bathroom sink all the time. They're a pretty easy DIY job from the looks of them, and not too expensive at around $200. Search for "instant hot water recirculating pump" on amazon and you'll see lots of alternatives. And Chas, sorry about making light of your situation. I was in kinda a mood when I posted. I do find Otis very calming though. | |||
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| Serial origamist Has Achieved Nirvana |
Pique, search for Hot Water Lobster, but be sure to read the reviews and everything. Your water bill goes down but your gas/electricity bill to heat water goes up.
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Hadn't seen the non-electric recirculating pump when I looked into these a while back. Interesting. On the plus side, it could help with situations like the one we have with pipes freezing. Water would keep moving through and probably keep that from happening. Our solution is simply to drip water from the problem faucet when temps go really low in the winter, maybe a few days a year. On the (possibly) minus side, the cold water tends to be warmer than it was without the pump because of the recirculation.
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