Oh S***

[monophoto]

I ran some errands on Thursday morning, and when I came home I went down to my basement shop to put away some supplies that I had picked up at Home Despot.

Yaaghh! Water everywhere. I eventually traced the problem to a defective (builder grade) faucet at the kitchen sink, immediately over the shop. Turned off the water, and lifted up all the rubber 'fatigue mats', and set up a fan to blow air over the wet area to speed drying. Yesterday, got the faucet replaced - with something other than the builder-grade crap.

This morning, I was able to get everything back to near normal - sweeping up the wet chips and shavings under the lathe, etc. Fortunately, the drip was off to the side and not directly over the lathe. And fortunately, the failure occurred on Thursday when we were home most of the day, and could see the problem before it became a real catastrophe.

I really hate plumbing!

 

[carlconner]

Glad everything is OK. We had a similar problem near our shop when the hot water heater leaked out without a pan. New one has one.

 

[TellicoTurning]

Glad everything is OK. We had a similar problem near our shop when the hot water heater leaked out without a pan. New one has one.

I live in a double wide modular and some brilliant young engineer/architect thought the perfect place for the hot water heater is in a small area behind the heating unit...and accessed through the master bedroom closet... when ours leaked and overflowed the pan, we had wet carpet in the closet and most of the master bedroom.... LOML was NOT a happy camper.

Fortunately or unfortunately, I don't have water anywhere near my shop,... if the big oak tree that stands behind it drops any more big limbs on the roof, may have an open air shop.

 

[sbwertz]

A few years ago, the copper water line for the refrigerator icemaker that runs through the attic sprung a leak. No one was home, and by the time we found it, the ceiling had come down right next to my big South Bend Modle 9A metal lathe and there was a couple of inches of water in the floor. Unfortunately, many of the collets and other pieces of the lathe were sitting in boxes on the floor. I spent DAYS cleaning everything up so it didn't rust. What a mess! (And now the pieces are all up on shelves. Someday I'm actually going to learn how to use that monster. I inherited it from my grandfather and it is almost as old as I am.)

 

[tomtedesco]

On the bright side, your shop is clean. Glad damage was as minor as you describe.