M
McRabbet
I'm afraid I'm going to be busy for the next several days with a major shop cleanup -- about 6:30 PM I heard a noise in our upstairs bathroom that made me suspicious (I had heard it this morning, too but thought it was the wind echoing through the vent fan) -- went down to my shop for the first time since yesterday to find the floor covered in 1-1/2" of water and a burst pipe leading to an outside faucet without a shutoff valve. :gar-Cr We are on a well and it had run at least 12 hours through a split where the CPVC pipe had frozen in an outside wall. I got the well pump and HW heater off, cut the pipe near the ceiling where it turns toward the outside wall and drained; then installed a shutoff valve (glad I had one!).
Spent the last two hours running my shopvac on water pickup mode and emptied it about 10 times (16 gal vac -- probably dumped 100 gallons) to get the majority of standing water. I had some tools in carrying sacks and cases on the floor that got a little wet and fortunately, most of my wood and plywood is stored higher than the waterline... Turned the water back on at 10:00 PM and it is okay.
I'll be running my dehumidifier for days and cleaning up for awhile... My main concern is the shop floor which is OSB and hope it doesn't warp. But I've got wet sawdust and wood chips and lots of cutoff pieces on the floor that will need to be cleaned up and disposed. Guess my time for a major shop cleanup has come...
Spent the last two hours running my shopvac on water pickup mode and emptied it about 10 times (16 gal vac -- probably dumped 100 gallons) to get the majority of standing water. I had some tools in carrying sacks and cases on the floor that got a little wet and fortunately, most of my wood and plywood is stored higher than the waterline... Turned the water back on at 10:00 PM and it is okay.
I'll be running my dehumidifier for days and cleaning up for awhile... My main concern is the shop floor which is OSB and hope it doesn't warp. But I've got wet sawdust and wood chips and lots of cutoff pieces on the floor that will need to be cleaned up and disposed. Guess my time for a major shop cleanup has come...