Last night, just as we were going to bed, we heard this loud rushing water sound in the basement. My husband and I thought :censor::censor::censor:? and ran down there. There was a waterfall coming out of the hot water heater! There was already about 1" of water in that part of the basement!
I ran upstairs and called the property manager's emergency number, told the woman what had happened, and that the basement was rapidly flooding. Ninety minutes and three phone calls later, she still had done nothing. Meanwhile, my husband had figured out how to turn the water off, and spent over an hour moppiing the floor.
I had to call again this morning, and they've sent someone over, and he said he's never seen anything like it. The force of the water completely blew the element out and you can see where the hot water shot all over the walls. Good thing I wasn't doing laundry at the time, I would have been right in front of it!
The stupid basement flooded a year ago, too, (the sump pump shorted out) two days after I spent five days organizing it. (Luckily, I had put almost everything in waterproof tubs). All my hard work was gone when the clean-up crew came and took everything out and stuck it all back in. This past weekend, I JUST got it organized AGAIN! It took me a year! Good thing my husband was home, because I would have just gone to bed 'cause I had a splitting headache and couldn't deal at all last night.
Our rent just went up again this month. We gotta find a house to buy. I'm so tired of putting energy into someone else's stupid "heritage" read: OLD house.
Thanks for letting me vent. I'll feel even better after a hot shower, whenever that may be.
Cheers, from
SwampWitch
I ran upstairs and called the property manager's emergency number, told the woman what had happened, and that the basement was rapidly flooding. Ninety minutes and three phone calls later, she still had done nothing. Meanwhile, my husband had figured out how to turn the water off, and spent over an hour moppiing the floor.
I had to call again this morning, and they've sent someone over, and he said he's never seen anything like it. The force of the water completely blew the element out and you can see where the hot water shot all over the walls. Good thing I wasn't doing laundry at the time, I would have been right in front of it!
The stupid basement flooded a year ago, too, (the sump pump shorted out) two days after I spent five days organizing it. (Luckily, I had put almost everything in waterproof tubs). All my hard work was gone when the clean-up crew came and took everything out and stuck it all back in. This past weekend, I JUST got it organized AGAIN! It took me a year! Good thing my husband was home, because I would have just gone to bed 'cause I had a splitting headache and couldn't deal at all last night.
Our rent just went up again this month. We gotta find a house to buy. I'm so tired of putting energy into someone else's stupid "heritage" read: OLD house.
Thanks for letting me vent. I'll feel even better after a hot shower, whenever that may be.
Cheers, from
SwampWitch