For the weekend to start

i hate it when that happens!!!!!! had a pipe break in the master bath one night. glad we were home when it happened!!!! good luck drying and repairing. ruins a good weekend!

I got it all dried up last night and today. Replaced the line and installed new hot/cold water valves to the sink (they were bad to). Man that galvanized water piping line sure does corrode internally and flakes of rust come off and it does build up. Then I had to go out and do another home inspection, just got back and all is well with the water.

thats sucks big time , I noticed right before winter our pipes looking bad , so we replumed the whole house , with PC pipe

PC pipe?? Is that a plastic pipe. When I re-do mine I'm going to use Pex. But then I'll have to pound to ground rode in unless I run metal out to the water meter and connect the ground on the metal.

I'll get a few more pictures this week..

Sorry to hear about that I sure hope your insurance covered it. My leak I figured was about a couple hours. Enough to make a big mess. We have that snap together wood floor in the kitchen and were going to redo it anyway with a tile floor. Guess its coming sooner than we were figuring on. I've never shut the water off before either cause the wife has to have all her plants and flowers watered daily, she has them all on timers. Good idea to shut the water off though.

Alex I should have explained better. When I said plants and flowers I'm talking about the wifes yard. We got an acre of flowers, and special plants (lots of water) and believe it or not we don't get much rain at all in the summer months.
Wife spends a week making sure all the sprinklers are set up correctly before she will leave. Anyway, sure sorry to hear about your water damage, I do understand.

There are a ton of stories about flooded homes from washer hoses or Ice makers going bust. You really don't have to turn all the water off, just the feed to the washer and ice maker where it's tapped in then you've taken care of the two main culprits...

If you travel a lot for extended times, consider putting in a second cut out to the sprinklers so they have their own feed from the main, that way you can turn off the house and still have water for the lawn, thats what my home has in place.

Speaking of water leaks, supposed to go up and help doug with the Valdez (RK that leaks more oil than Exxon and BP) and his water heater busted, told me he was getting a plumber, had to pull a $100 permit, so I took him the shop vac and helped him pull the old one out, drain was clogged so it was still full of h20 drug it to the street.

Have to help him put a new one in this evening..

Alex, this is the only pic I have on my computer. All my other pics are of motorcycles and our trips.

As for a water heater they have a drain on the bottom of them that one should drain once every couple of years.
The ideal situation in a home would be to have separate control valves to turn on only outside water when needed that is separate from the house water. Next time you build a house do it then as I have never seen even a new house with that feature added on. Like ours the back outside faucet has a shut off under the kitchen sink. So, we have to leave the water on for her to water when we are gone. You should turn off the water heater breaker or gas off and the water feed valve. Good idea to turn off the washing machine, dishwasher valve. Most homes here the ice maker shut off is in the crawl space and most people will not go into their crawl space to shut the water off to it.

when ya turn off the water , turn off the water heaters also.........

That would probably help a lot so you don't burn the house down.

my thoughts!!!!!!!!