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05-21-2011, 09:45 PM | #1 |
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Lost $200 drawings
Well, I hope the rest of you had a better day than I did today.
The wife and I decided today would be a good day to get some work done outside the house. We picked up some flowers and sod and proceeded to plant and lay the sod. All of sudden she came screaming from the house and said the basement was flooded. Oh No, my airplanes are there! It turned out one of the no freeze valves froze this past winter and cracked. As soon as I turned on the water outside the spray started inside. I lost over $200 worth of drawings of airplanes I planned on building this year to say nothing of washing the hydro pannel box down. One set of drawings was of the " Fleet Canuck" that I drew up, electric powered 46" wing span. I will soon post a picture of the Canuck I built from them on RC Canada. The loss is great to me but the mess I have to clean up now too. I guess a plumbing job is in the works for tomorrow or Monday. Just lucky the hydro did not go up in flames! Cheers Glenn |
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05-21-2011, 10:07 PM | #2 |
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Re: Lost $200 drawings
I had the exact same thing happen to me the first year we moved into the house.
I knew there was no shut-off valve like I had in the other house but I thought everything would be ok till spring. Well I thought wrong. Thank god my wife was in the basement doing laundry. Needless to say I have a shut off on every tap so I can drain the lines now. Sorry to here about the loss of your plans. |
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05-21-2011, 10:07 PM | #3 |
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Re: Lost $200 drawings
Very sorry Glenn, that's a real shame.
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05-21-2011, 10:55 PM | #4 |
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Re: Lost $200 drawings
Have not had an incident that serious, but it seemed that every time we turned around we had water where we did not want it and no water where we needed it when we first moved into our country home. Took a fair bit of getting used to, and learning the idiosyncrasies of the house.
Best of luck with the cleanup. You have my sympathies.
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05-22-2011, 12:18 AM | #5 |
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Re: Lost $200 drawings
are the plans flat folded or rolled. If in one peice still you may be able to savage them by freezing them. Have heard of this being done with books. If you can get them unrolled onto a window screen or something they could be dried.
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05-22-2011, 08:32 AM | #6 |
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Re: Lost $200 drawings
They where all rolled Tod, some I bought while South and some from kits I had here ready to "go". The water pelletted them to a point where they became very soft. We tried to roll them out on the lawn but I think they are destorted beyond use. I am very thankfull that the power pannel did not go up and everything else is repairable. The rugs are finished but I can live without that. The other half of the basement where all the airplane stuff is is dry. Thanks for the good wishes guys.
This is the second valve I had split the same way. One more to go. China quality a few years ago. I will put a shut off valve ahead of that one now too. Moral of the story is check the basement just after you turn an outside tap on the first time in the Spring. Cleanup time! Glenn |
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05-22-2011, 04:03 PM | #8 |
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That's awful. I had something even worse happen when the sewage pumping station down the street failed, and it all backed up through the drain in the basement. I was literally knee deep in water with pieces of other people's faeces floating around my models. I lost well over a thousand dollars worth of books, many which were out of print and can't be easily replaced.
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05-22-2011, 09:59 PM | #9 |
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reo, no I have only to think that it must have been dripping a bit and as it leaked it froze. This was the second one that did the same thing. I have another one that would have taken out mega bucks had it gone. All my other drawings and some kits are stored next to it. I'm going back to the old method of putting a shut off valve ahead of the outside valve on all three. Fotunately the water stayed in one half of the basement that was lowest. ( with no drain.) ( I only got about two inches on the floor. The spray all over everything did most of my damage.
Thank goodness I did not have two or three feet of the stuff Frank is talking about. That would have been heart breaking Frank. We did get things moved out and wet vacuumed the rest of the water out today. Big job! Cheers Glenn |
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05-23-2011, 12:22 AM | #10 |
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Re: Lost $200 drawings
I'm a plumber, and there's only two ways that can happen. Improper installation, no hanger installed on it to insure slope to the outside to drain out or not removing the hose before it gets to freezing at night. 98% of the time it's the latter.
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