Last night I had a couple of friends over. One guy, Dale, is an absolute neat freak. When he comes over he feels he need to clean my apartment which doesn’t bother me at all. Anyway I meantioned that my sink was leaking a little bit. Dale decided to take a look at it. About five minutes later water was gushing from under my sink. Dale got soaked but we got the water turned off for the sink. I called the maintance people to fix the problem.
The maintance guy shows up and starts to fiddle around under the sink. About 3 minutes later I hear a massive roar and go to the kitchen. The maintance guy is in front of the pipes and there is a river of water blasting him. He had his hands up trying to block the water. He gave up after about 30 seconds and ran outside to shut off the water for the whole apartment. At this point my kitchen had about an inch of water on the floor and the maintance guy was drenched from head to toe. The maintance guy took off to change into dry clothes and said he’d be back with someone else to fix the problem. About 2 minutes after he left steaming hot water started to pour from the pipes. I had to cut off the water heater to stop the water flow.
Anyway, the maintance guy came back with his partner and the found the problem. A nut that held some pipes together was totally stripped. They replaced it, sucked up all the water with a wet-dry vac and all is well now.
But, Holy schoinkies, I really did not need my kitchen to blow up.
On the bright side my kitchen floor is REALLY clean now.
Dave, my kitchen did blow up, or at least the pipes did. Also I did the whole ‘Fire burns down my apartment while I am sleeping’ thing a couple of months ago so I don’t need to go there again. Note, sleeping naked isn’t a good thing to do if your apartment catches on fire. I know this from experence. Running around naked with a fire blazing behind you is not a lot of fun.
Right after we got married, our kitchen faucet was leaking and the apt. manager got an old handyman to come deal with it. I left him in the morning fiddling with my pipes. We came back in the evening to find 4 guys moving all our furniture and taking up our carpet to dry it out. The guy had broken the hot water valve, and the scenario was much as yours, sleestak. Boiling water shooting everywhere. It took a week for the carpet to dry, but at least the manager started hiring a competent plumber.
Yep. That’s what it took for us to clean our basement floor. Two days and a new water heater later, you can actually see what color the paint is (gray).
