Thursday, January 15, 2009

One Of Those Days

You ever have one of those days where you know it's going to be one of those days? Yeah, me too. Today was one of those days. I arrived home shortly after Jen and Marcus, who were both downstairs in the basement which had flooded, or more specifically was flooding. Water was running out of a failed joint in the pipes and appeared to have been doing so for an hour or so. Jen had been home over lunch and everything was fine. I had a buddy come over to look at some of the remodeling I am working on, and he said everything was fine when he left, so I know things were OK up until around 3p, give or take.

It was fairly easy to see what had happened, and the cold weather appears to have been a factor. The termination cap for the exhaust fan had frozen somehow (not sure how that all happened yet) and pushed a section of the water pipe loose. It looks like the solder on the joint failed as it broke clean and is easy to reconnect. So tomorrow I review the basics of sweating and soldering copper pipe and then I have work to do.

OK, some really good things happened today too. First, Bobbi Sue sent me a couple pix of the little man from Xmas. One. Two. Then more facebook happened - I just love that thing.

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