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It’s a good thing we didn’t order any flooring yet.
Uh oh
I took a shower this afternoon. Now, normally I have the knob a little over halfway between cold and hot. The Big Man has the water heater set hotter than I’d like, so I can’t stand to have the hot water on too high. Today though, I had to have the knob on as hot as possible. Oh great... I knew exactly what was going on.
Here we go again!
This same thing happened two Thanksgivings ago. We found out we had a break in our hot water line. It was so bad that our hot water heater was running constantly, so the water was not getting heated long enough to come out hot. Thankfully, we were able to accurately locate the break in floor. We live in a single level home with cement subfloors. We could feel the heat come through where the leak was. Plus, we could eventually hear water gushing. They only had to pull up 3 floor tiles and replace the section of pipe that was broken. Afterwards, we called the contractor that installed our flooring to patch it up for us. You can’t even tell where we had to pull up the tiles! It was the best case scenario.
Options this time around
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So, do we try to do the same thing this time around? Would we be as fortunate as we were last time in locating the break? Going in to fix the break like last time would be the best case scenario financially and stress wise. But will this keep happening every year? Would we basically be tearing into the whole floor over time fixing breaks? Do we just tear up the floor and replace it all at once so we don’t have this problem again? Or do we put in new plumbing through the attic instead? The only problem with that option is that we can’t have plumbing in the exterior walls. This means we would have to move both our kitchen sink and dishwasher. Might as well redo the whole kitchen at that point! (Our cabinet doors are cracking to the point where repairing them isn’t doing much good anyways.) Oofta, it all screams dollars signs in the end. Which brings me to the best best case scenario.
Time to move!
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If it were up to me, I would take this as a good sign to move out! I can see it now. Move out to a warmer place where trees surround the property in all directions. Limited traffic driving by, especially in the middle of the night. No government employees or government funded program employees coming through our yard (without giving us a kind heads-up beforehand). Build a new home, just the way we want it. And access to all sorts of resources. Yup, I am a dreamer!!
I suppose we will get more answers tomorrow. I don’t even think of a 40 year old house as being that old.
What are some old house issues you’ve had to deal with?