Why is it Always Water?!?!

Another exciting weekend with crazy water issues. It seems ridiculous that this is the third major water issue in the basement in 6 years. While I am glad we have not gutted the basement yet, I am not sure I want to because it feels like it would be a ticking time bomb before something else happens! We don't have what I consider normal basement flooding issues either, we don't have issue switch water flooding because if rain/snow/nature issues. We have issues like the main water line to the hour breaking under the concrete basement floor, or the septic tank being directly connected to the toilet downstairs and since it had never previously been pumped/tended to (had nomidea it needed to be), we didnt know every time we used the tub upstairs it was draining out of the toilet downstairs because the tank was blocked (gross), or when pipes from the kitchen sink are leaking into the basement bathroom. I am sure other people have water issues but it just seems like we have outnof the ordinary types of water flooding our basement.

The sentiment water filter that is in our laundry room cracked and was spraying water everywhere. It couldn't have been going for more than 5-15 minutes. I had been downstairs not long before and there was no issue. I am glad we were home and I heard the sound of what I thought was the washer filing but that was odd since I hadn't put any laundry in. I asked Scott and he said he hadn't, so we went down to investigate and found lots of water. Flooded the laundry room, into the entryway, in the main room, the bathroom was flooded and the whole wall from the laundry dry room to the bathroom was flooded. It was pushing into the room as we quickly worked to clean it up. Scott was able to shut the main water off to the house immediately and we grabbed the two shop vacs, emptied them and pulled the filters out. We each took one and tried to get the water up as fast as we could. Even with two of us it still took hours to get it cleaned, Scott had to get a new filter and do some plumbing, his least favorite job around the house, and I tried to prevent he water from damaging anything else we had stored downstairs.

Thankfully the kids played fairly well upstairs and the only trouble they found was getting into the last of the brownies. Unfortunately, Scott had a lot of work ahead of him upstairs as well because before the water issue he had pulled apart the whole entertainment center to clean up the cords, equipment, etc. Since we got the new TV a couple weeks ago, he has been wanting to clean it all up now that far fewer cords are needed, and we had managed to get the TV fully anchored finally, so he still had more cleaned and setting up before he was done for the night.


So, now we have fans set up to finish drying out the basement. I am hoping a couple of warmish days pan out to air out the basement as it dries, and I need to get our carpet cleaner in to be fixed so I can scrub the carpets and hope that it helps to be sure they are as clean as they can be under the circumstances. We also called the plumber because we want to have him come look at Scott's filter job to be sure it is ok and to get some information and advice on our plans for the basement. So, we will wait and see what the plumber says, we are not ready to tackle our plans for remodeling the basement yet, but we also need to be sure that once we do, water will not be an issue and the basement won't flood again!