Jngrbrdman
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If you like puzzles and mysteries then you will love this.
My wife calls me this afternoon and tells me we've got some flooding in the basement. She needs to learn how to relax... I mean, there isn't anything you can really do to stop whatever is letting the water in, so why freak out? Anyway, I had some ideas of where it might be coming from so I wasn't too concerned. I get home and I go downstairs to inspect the damage. Try to imagine the lay of the land with me... You walk down the stairs and immediately to your right is the laundry room. Floors are concrete and dry as a bone. A little further down to the right is a bathroom. The carpet in front of the bathroom is definitely flooded. To your left is a tiled dining area that is dry. Also there is a family room that is mostly dry. Directly in front of you is a bedroom. That left wall is shared with the family room. Can you imagine it? I'll upload pictures in a minute and illustrate.
The Puzzle: None of the outside walls are wet. There are only two walls that are the outside walls and they are in the bedroom. The edge of the carpet is dry by the wall. I pulled back a corner and the concrete below is dusty dry. Also, the water did not go under the wall to the family room. The carpet along the wall in the bedroom is dry, so if the water came from under the wall then it is only flowing one way. The water in the family room would appear to be coming from under the wall because it goes all the way to the edge and then appears to be expanding from there. The carpet in front of the bathroom is the wettest, but there is absolutely no water on the floor of the bathroom at all. There is dust behind the door and even a missing tile on the edge of by the carpet. It is totally dry.
The Mystery: The mat in front of the shower in the bathroom is absolutely drenched. When I tapped it with my foot it actually splashed. There isn't a drop of water anywhere else on the floor. The mat is not a low point of the bathroom either. The floor is very level if not even slanted a little down. The mat is at the highest point of the fairly level floor.
Quandry: I just sucked 22 gallons of water out of the carpet. The carpet was not wet around the edge of any of the walls except the family room. It was not wet around the edges of any of the furniture in the bedroom. There are no drips in the ceiling and there is no water running down the wall. Where did all this water come from?
My thoughts... I think the shower overflowed. I think something caused the drain to back up and the water went over the edge. It went just high enough to go over the edge and the mat soaked it all up. I think the same thing can be used to explain the water in the hall and bedroom. I think they might have carpeted over a drain without closing it off first. I don't know where it is, but that is my guess. Unless my wife ran the hose in through the window and managed to soak the carpets without getting one drip near the walls then I think that is the only solution. Any thoughts on that?
My wife calls me this afternoon and tells me we've got some flooding in the basement. She needs to learn how to relax... I mean, there isn't anything you can really do to stop whatever is letting the water in, so why freak out? Anyway, I had some ideas of where it might be coming from so I wasn't too concerned. I get home and I go downstairs to inspect the damage. Try to imagine the lay of the land with me... You walk down the stairs and immediately to your right is the laundry room. Floors are concrete and dry as a bone. A little further down to the right is a bathroom. The carpet in front of the bathroom is definitely flooded. To your left is a tiled dining area that is dry. Also there is a family room that is mostly dry. Directly in front of you is a bedroom. That left wall is shared with the family room. Can you imagine it? I'll upload pictures in a minute and illustrate.
The Puzzle: None of the outside walls are wet. There are only two walls that are the outside walls and they are in the bedroom. The edge of the carpet is dry by the wall. I pulled back a corner and the concrete below is dusty dry. Also, the water did not go under the wall to the family room. The carpet along the wall in the bedroom is dry, so if the water came from under the wall then it is only flowing one way. The water in the family room would appear to be coming from under the wall because it goes all the way to the edge and then appears to be expanding from there. The carpet in front of the bathroom is the wettest, but there is absolutely no water on the floor of the bathroom at all. There is dust behind the door and even a missing tile on the edge of by the carpet. It is totally dry.
The Mystery: The mat in front of the shower in the bathroom is absolutely drenched. When I tapped it with my foot it actually splashed. There isn't a drop of water anywhere else on the floor. The mat is not a low point of the bathroom either. The floor is very level if not even slanted a little down. The mat is at the highest point of the fairly level floor.
Quandry: I just sucked 22 gallons of water out of the carpet. The carpet was not wet around the edge of any of the walls except the family room. It was not wet around the edges of any of the furniture in the bedroom. There are no drips in the ceiling and there is no water running down the wall. Where did all this water come from?
My thoughts... I think the shower overflowed. I think something caused the drain to back up and the water went over the edge. It went just high enough to go over the edge and the mat soaked it all up. I think the same thing can be used to explain the water in the hall and bedroom. I think they might have carpeted over a drain without closing it off first. I don't know where it is, but that is my guess. Unless my wife ran the hose in through the window and managed to soak the carpets without getting one drip near the walls then I think that is the only solution. Any thoughts on that?
