01-21-2009, 09:53 AM
Haha! I can totally relate to this story. A couple years ago during New Years Day of all days at about 2am. There I was watching Batman Begins just a bit of lighting with my feet up on an ottoman. A beer, some nachos...all set. My wife comes down the stairs 30 minutes later and says, "Hey how come there is water ALL OVER THE FLOOR!!!" I looked down and sure enough there is about a 1/2 inch of water underneath me. I'm sitting right in the middle of it and didn't even notice! :oops:
Long story short. Our 40 gallon hot water tank ruptured at the seam in the next room over. We spent four hours wet vac-ing up the rec room and had to call in the gas company to replace the tank. Good thing we were leasing the tank as they came in that day and had us back in business by the next. But still what a mess.
Glad to hear none of the train stuff was harmed.
Good luck with your own mess there Pete. Hope it all gets sorted out soon. Make sure you get everything propped up off the floor and dried cleaned throughly. Little Styrofoam blocks work great for this. Make sure the PM has his clean up crew pop the baseboards along the walls too if you have them. Other wise the drywall will get soaked from the water and eventually you'll have a mold problem there.
Long story short. Our 40 gallon hot water tank ruptured at the seam in the next room over. We spent four hours wet vac-ing up the rec room and had to call in the gas company to replace the tank. Good thing we were leasing the tank as they came in that day and had us back in business by the next. But still what a mess.
Glad to hear none of the train stuff was harmed.
Good luck with your own mess there Pete. Hope it all gets sorted out soon. Make sure you get everything propped up off the floor and dried cleaned throughly. Little Styrofoam blocks work great for this. Make sure the PM has his clean up crew pop the baseboards along the walls too if you have them. Other wise the drywall will get soaked from the water and eventually you'll have a mold problem there.