Leaky pipes

Thursday morning, while cleaing Mya's bedroom, I noticed a wet spot on her carpet by the door.  After inquiring all peoples of the house as to who spilled something and coming up with nothing I grabbed a towel and tried soaking up the water.  Over the next 2 1/2 hours I watched her whole carpet become wet and realized it was spreading to the boy's room also.  I called Derek and said, "I think we have a problem!"  He came home and turned the water off.   Mya's carpet was ripped up and her room cleared out completely.  About a 1/3 of the boys room carpet came up and all of their stuff was moved to the other side of their room.  We had to get a guy with big fans and dehumidifiers to come out to dry everything out. 

 Friday afternoon a professional leak finder came and found the leak in the pipe.  In Florida houses are built on slabs and the plumbing is under the slabs.  He had to jackhammer up part of the floor to find the leake.  The first time wasn't quite big enough...

the second time the whole leak was revealed as well as this small lake.  It was so nice of him to say that it was one of the biggest leaks he has seen all year.  At least if you are going to have a leak go all out right?:) 

The pretty red and green one is the bad pipe.  There is suppose to be 6 inches between the concrete and the pipe.  This pipe was halfway burried in the concrete and the concrete basically ate it away.

 Usually the leak find will put a clamp on the pipe unltill you can get a plumber out.  He didn't have a clamp big enough.  Thankfully we know people and my Uncle Phil called up the plumber he works with.

 He came around 4 p.m. and after determining that the hot water pipe could not be saved, re-piped the hot water pipe through the attic into the laundry room (with 2 nice hole cut into the wall) and by about 7:30 p.m. we had water again!

 It was only a little over 24 hours we didn't have water but it was my morning to take a shower and by the time the water came back on a shower felt VERY nice.

Tomorrow morning the insurance guy and a contractor are coming back to talk about filling back in the whole and fixing the carpet and baseboards.  Until then all of Mya's stuff is in the office and sleepover in dad and mom's room (say a prayer for sound sleepers as they will ALL be in our room till everything gets fixed!).  The office and our room makes me slightly feel like a hoarder.

 We are very thankful, though, that I was home when it happened as it could have been much worse and that God provides for what we need!  And hey it keeps life exciting right?!?!