This morning Josh threw in a load of laundry and then was doing something else. When he came back into the kitchen (our laundry area is just past the kitchen) there was an inch of water all throughout the laundry area, kitchen and half bath. So after using EVERY towel in our house we got most of the water sopped up, Josh turned the valves at the washing machine to turn the water off and take the hoses in the back off to try and figure out what the problem was...it was at that point that bad got worse....We found out that the hot water valve switch is broken as water came JETTING out and of course at that point you can't get the hose back on...so we are frantically trying to find and get to our water main shut off. Josh saved the day and turned the water off for the whole house (I know how to do this now too.) But unfortunately our bad situation got worse and after cleaning up the one inch of water...we now had another two....UUGH...So I drove VERY fast to the Walmart, looking oh so lovely (because I got out of bed to this whole situation), and purchased the last five gallon shop vac. I think we probably disposed of a good 40 gallons of water today.
So we aren't sure where the problem is. We thought the drain might be clogged but our free (thank God for something today) evaluation from Roto Rooter left us thinking it's most likely our washing machine that's clogged somewhere (oh blessed pets and and all their hair)...so the appliance repairman will be here tomorrow afternoon.
The joys of home ownership!
On a sidenote...Josh was GREAT this morning and held up perfectly under pressure. He didn't yell or anything...He just took care of things. I was a very proud wife!
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