Got up early this morning

[Gary Fowler]

Woke at 3:30 am to go pee and immediately stepped into a couple inches of water. Water hoses to one of the bathroom faucets had burst sometime after 12am and had pretty much flooded 2 baths, 2 bedrooms, living room and much of the dining room and was headed to the other end of the house. I got the water shut off and thankfully it was just a hose and not something inside the walls. I woke up the wife and between me using the wet vac and her mopping we got it dried up in 1:20. By the time I got everything put away it was 4:50 so I just stayed up and started working on other things that needed fiddling with. I cleaned and adjusted the bar on my Husky chainsaw, took off the bar and chain on the Stihl, sharpened the chain, removed a defective pressure switch from my compressor then came back to the house and had 3 boiled eggs for breakfast all prior to 7:30 am.
After breakfast, I removed the hoses from the faucet which required removing the faucet from the cabinet and discovered that they were a non-standard hose on one end. Instead of the standard female fittings on both ends, one end had a small threaded 1/4"male end with 2 O-rings that screwed into the faucet. The wife bought it on line from internet, it is one of those glass bowl type that sit on top of the cabinet and the faucet kind of stand up and leans over the bowl while water runs off a glass saucer.
Anyway but this time businesses were open in town so I head off to get me some new hoses and a new pressure regulator. Lowes didn't have anything like it, only the standard hose types nor did they have my pressure switch, so I went to Atwoods to get my switch which they had. While rummaging around the store, I found some 1/4" clear reinforced hose that was rated for 175F and 370 PSI so I though I could make that work by using the old fittings.
Well after an hour or so of cutting off the crimps to remove the old barbs then installing them in the new hose with adjustable clamps, I headed to the house to see how my handy work would do. I quickly found that the hose clamps as installed wouldn't work due to some clearance problems with some mounting hardware but after some adjusting, I got everything lined up, hoses connected and water on. SO FAR SO GOOD.

It has been a busy day so far. Have to keep an eye on that redneck rigging I did and keep looking for some correct hoses to fit. The ones that burst were the stainless braided hose type and I wouldn't have thought they would ever break. The one ruptured and the other was just a tad from breaking as the SS braid was splitting/bulging on it also.

 

[MH8675309]

Woke at 3:30 am to go pee and immediately stepped into a couple inches of water. Quote


INSTANT GROUCHINESS!!!

 

[Ford850]

Wow, what a mess. What's your normal water pressure in your house?

 

[oosik]

See - now you understand why I'm always up around 3:30am. You can get so much more done when your up around 18 - 20 hours. Ha,ha

You were lucky to have caught it when you did. Tough way to clean the floors, though.

 

[EddieWalker]

Good job!!!! At one point in my past, my ex had a wooden piece of art hanging on the all above the toilet. I was just opening the front door to leave for the day when I heard a bang sound, and then a woosh sound of water rushing out of a pipe. By the time I went from the front door to the bathroom, all of 30 feet, the water was already an inch deep everywhere and rising. I got the water off and spent the next hour or so mopping up the mess. That wooden wall art had come off the wall and broke off the water valve to the water supply to the toilet. Ten seconds later and I might not have heard it, and the water would have ran wide open all day long!!!!

 

[Gary Fowler]

So far the redneck rigging of the hoses is holding fine. I haven't been back out to look for anything different due to all the rain. Just sticking close to home for the next few days.
County water pressure at the main is 100 PSI. I have pressure regulators prior to house and shop bathroom entry. All my faucets are uncontrolled pressure so I have excellent flow there.
I have an anomaly in the water pressure as measured with my new gauge. The faucet furthest from the supply entry registered 70 PSI while the faucet right next to the water supply entry was at 55. I adjusted the regulator down to 45 PSI so everything should be good now.

 

[dstig1]

Good job!!!! At one point in my past, my ex had a wooden piece of art hanging on the all above the toilet. I was just opening the front door to leave for the day when I heard a bang sound, and then a woosh sound of water rushing out of a pipe. By the time I went from the front door to the bathroom, all of 30 feet, the water was already an inch deep everywhere and rising. I got the water off and spent the next hour or so mopping up the mess. That wooden wall art had come off the wall and broke off the water valve to the water supply to the toilet. Ten seconds later and I might not have heard it, and the water would have ran wide open all day long!!!!

Had a friend with a very similar story. They left for a vacation (2 weeks, IIRC). Forgot something and turned around 5 minutes later and came back home. Heard a water flowing sound when he walked in. Quick check and the washing machine hose had burst. That return trip was the difference between a contained mess, and a trashed house. Can you imagine 2 weeks of that? Yeesh.

 

[MossRoad]

$20.00 insurance policy... cheap water detectors...

We have some of these at work, only older 700 models. They are 10 years old and work great. We use them in drip pans under machinery that has water baths. If they get wet, they go off. 9V battery just like a smoke detector. Put one under the sink. Under the washing machine. Better to put the washer in a drip pan and put the sensor in the pan. In the lowest spot in the basement. Etc... cheap and effective. :thumbsup:

Water Leak Detectors - Sonin Online Store

 

[MossRoad]

There's also a whole house device called the Water Cop that has sensors that shut off the water to the whole house if the sensors get wet.

WaterCop LeakStop Single Point Detection and Automatic Shut-Off

 

[MF283]

Woke at 3:30 am to go pee and immediately stepped into a couple inches of water. Water hoses to one of the bathroom faucets had burst sometime after 12am and had pretty much flooded 2 baths, 2 bedrooms, living room and much of the dining room and was headed to the other end of the house. I got the water shut off and thankfully it was just a hose and not something inside the walls. I woke up the wife and between me using the wet vac and her mopping we got it dried up in 1:20. By the time I got everything put away it was 4:50 so I just stayed up and started working on other things that needed fiddling with. I cleaned and adjusted the bar on my Husky chainsaw, took off the bar and chain on the Stihl, sharpened the chain, removed a defective pressure switch from my compressor then came back to the house and had 3 boiled eggs for breakfast all prior to 7:30 am.
After breakfast, I removed the hoses from the faucet which required removing the faucet from the cabinet and discovered that they were a non-standard hose on one end. Instead of the standard female fittings on both ends, one end had a small threaded 1/4"male end with 2 O-rings that screwed into the faucet. The wife bought it on line from internet, it is one of those glass bowl type that sit on top of the cabinet and the faucet kind of stand up and leans over the bowl while water runs off a glass saucer.
Anyway but this time businesses were open in town so I head off to get me some new hoses and a new pressure regulator. Lowes didn't have anything like it, only the standard hose types nor did they have my pressure switch, so I went to Atwoods to get my switch which they had. While rummaging around the store, I found some 1/4" clear reinforced hose that was rated for 175F and 370 PSI so I though I could make that work by using the old fittings.
Well after an hour or so of cutting off the crimps to remove the old barbs then installing them in the new hose with adjustable clamps, I headed to the house to see how my handy work would do. I quickly found that the hose clamps as installed wouldn't work due to some clearance problems with some mounting hardware but after some adjusting, I got everything lined up, hoses connected and water on. SO FAR SO GOOD.

It has been a busy day so far. Have to keep an eye on that redneck rigging I did and keep looking for some correct hoses to fit. The ones that burst were the stainless braided hose type and I wouldn't have thought they would ever break. The one ruptured and the other was just a tad from breaking as the SS braid was splitting/bulging on it also.

Man , i wish you lived closer, if you run out of things to do, you could come over:thumbsup:

Ronnie