tmbrown97
Senior Member
Woke up this morning (quite abruptly I might add) to my frantic wife... we actually have a refrigerator in our laundry room, and she went in to grab something to drink at 6:00AM.
Turns out, our Electrolux washer didn't fully close the fill valve. The washer sits in a pan - one I had to improve and actually plumb correctly when we bought the house, because it was all screwed up... but 6 years of dust/lint/crap-that-falls-off-the-washer, it seems it wasn't able to keep up, and the water overflowed the pan and made quite the mess of the laundry room floor and soaked the carpet next to it. And the best part? I have upstairs laundry! So, downstairs, we had water leaking through one of the can lights onto the kitchen island where luckily there was nothing valuable, amazingly.
Quite the screwed up morning... all before 8AM... but it could've been much worse. It doesn't look like I'll need to do any drywall repairs; I removed the can light where the water was coming from and put a fan up inside there; we stopped all the water from upstairs and fixed all that, and we even found a parts store in town that had the offending valve so I could repair the washer. Tomorrow we're expecting everything will be dry enough to put it all back together.
So - just a friendly reminder everyone - water can really screw things up! And - it's time for me to find a leak sensor... I'm thinking since I have the Elk with the GE wireless, that's probably my best bet. Unfortunately the shut-off valve isn't practical here since we plan to sell the house in 6 months... I'll say, I'm very thankful - there are so many ways this could've been a lot worse!
Turns out, our Electrolux washer didn't fully close the fill valve. The washer sits in a pan - one I had to improve and actually plumb correctly when we bought the house, because it was all screwed up... but 6 years of dust/lint/crap-that-falls-off-the-washer, it seems it wasn't able to keep up, and the water overflowed the pan and made quite the mess of the laundry room floor and soaked the carpet next to it. And the best part? I have upstairs laundry! So, downstairs, we had water leaking through one of the can lights onto the kitchen island where luckily there was nothing valuable, amazingly.
Quite the screwed up morning... all before 8AM... but it could've been much worse. It doesn't look like I'll need to do any drywall repairs; I removed the can light where the water was coming from and put a fan up inside there; we stopped all the water from upstairs and fixed all that, and we even found a parts store in town that had the offending valve so I could repair the washer. Tomorrow we're expecting everything will be dry enough to put it all back together.
So - just a friendly reminder everyone - water can really screw things up! And - it's time for me to find a leak sensor... I'm thinking since I have the Elk with the GE wireless, that's probably my best bet. Unfortunately the shut-off valve isn't practical here since we plan to sell the house in 6 months... I'll say, I'm very thankful - there are so many ways this could've been a lot worse!