I want to thank all those who commented on my ongoing crisis. You’re concern is what keeps me blogging!
The water damage has turned out to be minimal. There is an area in my office about 12 square feet that required me to pull up carpet and apply the fans to it. There was not a significant amount of damage in other areas of my basement, other than a big mess to clean up. I have also found and corrected the problem that led to one of the greatest unnatural disasters in this household’s history.
The problem that started the great flood of 2006 was the drain hose that connects the bottom of the drum to the discharge pump had come off at the tub. This is connected using a simple compression type hose clamp. I reattatched the hose and clamp and gave it a good test. Everything is working as it should.
While I am sure this will hold, I plan to take further corrective action by replacing these compression type hose clamp with the older style screw type.
This article posted 01 06 06
January 6th, 2006 at 1:42 pm
Is your wash machine level? Slight vibration from an unlevel machine can cause the compressoin clamps over time to jimmy themselves lose. Hey… did your water detection alarm go off? he he he.
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January 6th, 2006 at 4:32 pm
Unfortunately, I had not installed my water detection system because some idividuals who know nothing about electrical systems convinced my wife it was unsafe. I have decided that I am going to move forward, and even expand this project beyond the initial design. Maybe I’ll go ahead and blog about it.