Well, here's an update on the lovely hot water leak situation. First of all, neither of us has ever lived on a slab, and my dad hasn't either. So, we didn't really know how exactly to go about doing this. So, we called a few people, one of them being the person who lived here before us, cause I remember walking in the kitchen once with them having a giant hole in the floor before. So, he told us what they did was listened to the floor, followed the pattern of hot water until they found the leak, listened, and then basically just busted up the concrete to find it. he says they have had 5 of these leaks to fix, and only once were they ever completely off by like 2 feet. So, you bust up the concrete, braise the pipes to fix them, and voila! Simple, right?
Ha. Everything is simple in theory. Its the actual doing of it that's not so simple.
I think we spent a good....4 hours looking for the leak. We turned the water on, tried to follow the sounds. Well, we couldn't HEAR anything, because we could hear it everywhere! We then let it sit in the hot water heater for a while so we could follow the heat. Every once in a while, he'd come ask my opinion of something, and of course me being me, I couldn't really tell anything. I mean, yeah, the floor got hot in the closet first. But, its pretty close to the hot water heater, so maybe it hasn't had time to spread yet??
I don't know how he finally determined it, but he made his decision of where to break the tiles and start drilling. And of course, all this is punctuated by breaks to Lowes to buy more tools. So, he gets started drilling about 430. This is such slow going. An hour later, he decided to get a bigger drill bit. An hour and a half later, we are rewarded with the sight and sound of gurgling water. YAY!! We hit it on our first try! Thank GOD!
Then, we come to the realization that what we found is a COLD water leak. Hmmm, weren't we looking for a hot water leak? He does all the usual checking, and yes, this is not a hot water leak, what we were looking for, this is a cold water leak. So now, we aren't sure if we found the right spot, or if this is just another leak we didn't know about.
He finished drilling a bit more, and after a while, he was able to stick his hand in there, have me turn on the hot water, and realize that YESS, this is where the hot water leak is, too!!
I don't even know how long he spent on this thing Saturday night, cause I'm a light weight and went to bed at 10:30. But he stayed up, finished drilling the hole in the concrete so that when he got up Saturday morning, all he needed to do was go to Lowes, buy the whatever whatever to fix it, and fix it. *SIGH*
So far, we're only out the cost of a few tools, but, how is that a bad thing for him, right? It hasn't been too bad, but we haven't had to buy the concrete or tiles to fix the floor, yet, so we will see.
So, he's gotten the tape stuff, whatever it's called, silicone, or whatever, to try to fix the pipes. That was a no-go, so he's going to have to braise them. In order to braise them, he's going to have to make the hole bigger, and that is such an ordeal. So, the plan, for now, is that I'm going to have a big ass hole in my kitchen floor for a week, until he can spend next weekend working on it.
And now, for your viewing pleasure, the destruction of my kitchen floor.
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