benp
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I've had a looooong evening.
The neighbors are in AZ for the holidays. So, as usual, I'm in charge of the property, dogs, stove, snow removal, and whatever else comes my way. Pretty much business as usual.
And whatever else drop kicked me in the teeth yesterday.
On Wednesday I noticed the boiler was low on water. I mean low. So I filled it thinking that this fall when we fired it up we read the measure stick wrong. It was the inaugural stove firing celebration so anything was possible.
I checked it this morning and she was low again. I forgot to put the fill cap back on last night so I thought that "may" have contributed to it. So I filled it at 0500.
Got home from work today at 1500 and checked the water level. Poop. It was low.
The orange mark on the stick is where I filled it at 0500. This cockroach is hemorrhaging somewhere. This is not good Mav.
Grabbed the flashlight and checked the stove for any leaks. Nope all good . The shop was good at the pump and manifold.
Aside from breaking out the track hoe from its winter slumber and digging up the water lines to check them, the basement in their house was the last on the list.
Mixed a cocktail, rounded up the hounds and away I went.
I walked downstairs in their basement and holy sheep sh!t. Houston....we've got serious issues. The basement was a tad wet.
The Taco pump in the furnace room crapped the bed. It was spraying water out of it at the weep hole.
And these are the big Taco pumps. There is a grand tied up in 4 pumps.
I got the power cut off to that pump, shut off the supply, and cut the power and the supply from the stove pump feeding the house.
I got done at 0130 this morning pulling carpet up, getting big fans set up, and stuff moved out to a drier basement location.
For the TL/DR crowd, keep a spare pump on hand and know how to change it. If I had one, I would of been back in bidness in 15 minutes and still had to do clean up. But I would of been operational.
Being Christmas Eve, no chance of getting a spare.
Something to think about.
The neighbors are in AZ for the holidays. So, as usual, I'm in charge of the property, dogs, stove, snow removal, and whatever else comes my way. Pretty much business as usual.
And whatever else drop kicked me in the teeth yesterday.
On Wednesday I noticed the boiler was low on water. I mean low. So I filled it thinking that this fall when we fired it up we read the measure stick wrong. It was the inaugural stove firing celebration so anything was possible.
I checked it this morning and she was low again. I forgot to put the fill cap back on last night so I thought that "may" have contributed to it. So I filled it at 0500.
Got home from work today at 1500 and checked the water level. Poop. It was low.
The orange mark on the stick is where I filled it at 0500. This cockroach is hemorrhaging somewhere. This is not good Mav.
Grabbed the flashlight and checked the stove for any leaks. Nope all good . The shop was good at the pump and manifold.
Aside from breaking out the track hoe from its winter slumber and digging up the water lines to check them, the basement in their house was the last on the list.
Mixed a cocktail, rounded up the hounds and away I went.
I walked downstairs in their basement and holy sheep sh!t. Houston....we've got serious issues. The basement was a tad wet.
The Taco pump in the furnace room crapped the bed. It was spraying water out of it at the weep hole.
And these are the big Taco pumps. There is a grand tied up in 4 pumps.
I got the power cut off to that pump, shut off the supply, and cut the power and the supply from the stove pump feeding the house.
I got done at 0130 this morning pulling carpet up, getting big fans set up, and stuff moved out to a drier basement location.
For the TL/DR crowd, keep a spare pump on hand and know how to change it. If I had one, I would of been back in bidness in 15 minutes and still had to do clean up. But I would of been operational.
Being Christmas Eve, no chance of getting a spare.
Something to think about.