so, got home around 6 after picking up something for an event at work tomorrow, and going for physio…

went downstairs to get something out of the freezer for my dinner, only to discover water running across the floor from the water tank to the sewer drain…

water still running to the drain…

got the phone and called the number on the tank and spoke with a woman who told me what to turn off where, and then headed upstairs to wait for the person who was coming to replace the tank…

towels into the workroom…

was supposed to be here between 8 and 10… didn’t seem like that big a deal, other than the money flying out the window, and apparently the tank had been installed in 2000 so it had a good run…

then I got a call just before 10 to advise the repair person was having a big problem at their current location and wouldn’t be able to come tonight… I went downstairs to discover that there was more water on the floor and it had gone into the family room under the heavy furniture… so then I moved the furniture piece by piece and put towels down on the carpet to soak up the water and tried to figure out how come it was still leaking…

towels by the tank…

the kids came by after a concert they were at and Jeff showed me how to empty the tank with a hose… now the hose is still running… possibly the cold water shut off valve to the tank is not working that well, lol… after a batch of the towels come out of the washing machine I will turn off the water to the whole house and go to bed…

of course both kids are working tomorrow but we’ve figured out a way for the repair person to get in and out in the morning… haven’t had a special event at work since early April, but we have one tomorrow afternoon, so I really need to be there to get all the bits and pieces done, sigh… thank goodness we have a plan…

the good news is that the physiotherapist was very pleased with how I am progressing, yay…