Goldurned fricking faucet leak in the Bathroom

[bigjohnsd]

Drove to California for my Dad's Memorial service, left here noon Thursday, we got back today at noon.

First thing I hear from my wife as I walk in the door is "John, there is water on the bathroom floor!"

That is water on the bamboo floor in the bathroom.

Damn shut off valve was dripping and it looks like it must have been dripping since last Thursday.

I sit typing this with two dehumidifiers and a half dozen axial fans running.

Floor is cupped, subfloor (plywood) is damp, baseboard trim is damaged.

Carpet in bedroom and living room showed only 1% more moisture than ambient so we got lucky there I think.

Two to three days of industrial noise levels and it should be dry.

The insurance guys make quite a production out of this.

Guess they are worried about mold issues down the road.

At least it didn't flood the basement.

 

[HotRodZilla]

Well, ****! I had another 4-letter word queued up, but let's go this wat. That sucks. Here's to having insurance.

Bamboo floors??

 

[MCRIDER007]

Maybe I am way too conservative but I shut the water off at the meter whenever I am going to be gone overnight. There are too many things in the house that can fail and cause major water damage not to mention the potential water bill if some ******* thinks it would be funny to leave one of the outside faucets on.

 

[Bugnatr]

Bamboo floors are tough as nails but water screws up everything. I have started to shut off my water to the house if gone more than a day or two. I have heard this story too many times-leaky ice maker, leaky washer hose etc.etc.

Insurance companies dis-like water claims,usually very costly.

 

[Pterodactyl]

Replace all your water valves with 1/4 turn ball valves. They are far less likely to fail than the common screw valves.

Sorry for your problems John. Hope your Dad's memorial went well.

 

[Mudslide Miller]

Replace all your water valves with 1/4 turn valves. They are far less likely to fail than the common screw valves.
Sorry for your problems John. Hope your Dad's memorial went well.

+1 Ball valves are the only way to go, especially if you have hard water.

Sorry for the loss of your Dad, John. Floors are replaceable.

 

[bigjohnsd]

Replace all your water valves with 1/4 turn ball valves. They are far less likely to fail than the common screw valves. Sorry for your problems John. Hope your Dad's memorial went well.

That's what I have, but the damn compression fitting on the pressurized side is what was dripping.

Pisgah!

 

[Bounce]

Had a ball valve T to the under-sink filter fail on me this past week. PITA to source replacements. Right now, I bypassed it and we're making due with the whole-house softened water for the time being.

 

[BkerChuck]

That just sucks! I came home once from a week vacation to find out our chest freezer had failed. Boy, did that stink up the place!

Good luck with the insurance.

 

[wnyfjr]

I'll add my misery to this thread...

Woke up this morning to find that the sump pump failed sometime last evening. Had about a 1/2" of water over about half the basement, including under the rolled vinyl flooring in the finished half. Didn't get high enough to ruin washer/dryer and heat and hot water tanks are on blocks, so OK there. I replaced the pump about 5 years ago when I thought the original was sounding a little tired. That original pump is now saving my ***. I still had a few boxes of my Dad's life on the floor that got wet, along with a few family pictures from my stepdaughters' younger days, etc. Saving what we can, chucking the rest. Got ServPro coming later to remove the flooring and vac up the rest of the water, then dry it out. It already smells musty.

Used to pay for a whole house alarm, including a sensor over the sump crock. Stopped using that years ago...seems like a dumb idea now.

I'll be setting up my own sump alarm very shortly. Count on it.

 

[lonerider]

Assuming copper pipe, I don't like to trust compression fittings with soft (brass) ferrules. I've seen some that were so soft that the ferrule wouldn't get a proper bite on hard copper pipe. Also seen them leak around the ferrule with the compression nut properly tightened. If I have to use them, I'll put a coat of pipe dope https://www.gasoila.com/products/pipe-thread-sealants.html

around the ferrule to further prevent leakage, YMMV.

 

[bigjohnsd]

House is 12 years old, has PEX with copper stubs at the service points.

This same thing has happened before, but when we were home so little mess.

Not sure what to do to prevent recurrence.

House is 12 years old, has PEX with copper stubs at the service points.

This same thing has happened before, but when we were home so little mess.

Not sure what to do to prevent recurrence.

 

[lonerider]

My place was built in the mid '70s with type M copper on the service side. Type M is the cheap thin wall copper that can wear thin over time to the point that a compression fitting won't seal. Every time I've had to replace any, I've gone with the heavier wall type L copper which, when properly sweated in, hasn't caused any further problems.

 

[Pterodactyl]

Hmm. I have PEX too. Not sure if there are the copper compression seals and what type they are if we do. Thanks John and lonerider, now I'll never be able to relax when on a trip.

 

[bigjohnsd]

Turn your main shutoff valve off when you leave town.

 

[infrared]

Turn your main shutoff valve off when you leave town.

Better turn off any water heaters then, also, because if anything leaks, they can run dry and may overheat.

My $0.02 worth.

Infrared

 

[Pterodactyl]

Turn your main shutoff valve off when you leave town.

Better turn off any water heaters then, also, because if anything leaks, they can run dry and may overheat.

My $0.02 worth.

Infrared

Oh great, yet another thing to worry about. Guess I better cut the power, purge the propane tanks and have the septic tank pumped too.

 

[wfooshee]

We had our washing machine hose burst one day, the wife came to me all panicky, "There's water spraying everywhere from behind the washer!" I went out to the meter and shut it off, to the store for a new hose, she mopped it up, all was well.

We were doing laundry from our 2-week trip to El Paso for Xmas with relatives. The hose bursting on THAT day was a really really good thing compared to what coulda been!


But as for bathroom flooding, nothing beats water (and stuff) coming in from the toilets backing up!!!! That was the nastiest thing I could ever imagine happening! Both bathrooms puking **** onto the floors and up from the tub drains....... Had grass roots in the sewer line out in the front yard.

At least my floors are plain ol' sheet flooring laid down on concrete slab.

 

[HotRodZilla]

Remind me to never get drunk and spend the night on Fooshee's bathroom floor! For the record, I hate bathrooms because of **** like that (the pun is noted, but was mostly unavoidable).

We just had our first floor ceiling repaired because our bathtubs relief valve had a screwed up seal. Took a long tome, but sporadic drops of water, from the second floor tub, finally made their way through the ceiling. Thankfully it is an open area and no mold was found. It was a way easier fix than I was expecting. Now that tge texture is dry, we just gotta paint the patch.