Tempus
03-14-2008, 01:58 PM
I was on the phone in my den with a buddy yesterday when I heard a load rumble beneath the floor in the closet which was rapidly followed by a "BOOM!" and a spray of water from the closet (which housed a network printer, hardware storage, boxes of photos, paper, etc.). The closet door was open so I was able to see the full glory of the detonation and make a dive for the power cord for the sump pump and disconnect it. this didn't stop the water from cascading down a horizontal stud behind the 3" thick cedar board wall w/electrical routed through it to 2 computers that but up against that wall...
Needless to say that after my graceful dive to the floor I had to hang up on my friend and start moving desks and computers out of the room, then everything from the closet/ print & scan station and start vacuuming up water and trying to diagnose the cause of the blast. It turns out that the hose that runs outside from the pump runs under our deck and when the deck was built they placed a support board across the hose, this made a crimp in the hose where water collected and froze and being under the deck in the shade the hose didn't thaw along with everything else and the water pushed back under high pressure and blew the joints in the pvc pipe inside the house. (sorry for the run-on-sentence)
So, today is clean up, dry out, repair and re-arrange day at my house.
Shi*.
Thankfully not only were we home at the time but I was in the room when it happened and could shut off the pump before there was more damage. It still sucks, but it could have been way worse.
Needless to say that after my graceful dive to the floor I had to hang up on my friend and start moving desks and computers out of the room, then everything from the closet/ print & scan station and start vacuuming up water and trying to diagnose the cause of the blast. It turns out that the hose that runs outside from the pump runs under our deck and when the deck was built they placed a support board across the hose, this made a crimp in the hose where water collected and froze and being under the deck in the shade the hose didn't thaw along with everything else and the water pushed back under high pressure and blew the joints in the pvc pipe inside the house. (sorry for the run-on-sentence)
So, today is clean up, dry out, repair and re-arrange day at my house.
Shi*.
Thankfully not only were we home at the time but I was in the room when it happened and could shut off the pump before there was more damage. It still sucks, but it could have been way worse.