Basement Flooding Creates Swimming Pool
One of the worst things that could happen to a basement
that's located below ground level is water leaking from anywhere. What
you're about to hear, is something that rarely happens, but when it
does, it isn't good. Find out how one water leak destroyed almost
everything in the basement.
The water leak was from a water heater supply pipe that broke. The
homeowners weren't away on vacation and believe it or not, this happened
while they were home and didn't even know about it for quite some time,
it probably wouldn't have been as bad, but the basement was used to
store valuable items and as an extra family room.
In other words, no one went down to the basement for all most 40 hours.
It might have been another 40 hours before someone went down to the
basement, except for the fact that there wasn't any more hot water in
the house. How could there be any hot water, the basement flooding
extinguished the gas water heater flame and was no longer producing hot
water for the rest of the house.
The basement was full of water and the homeowner estimated the height of
the water about 5 feet from the ground. That's a lot of water and
getting the water out, took the homeowner more than six hours. The
homeowner that I'm talking about, had an emergency contractor list
already prepared and called one of the contractors, who arrived at their
home shortly. Sometimes it's nice to be prepared for home damage
emergencies.
Stuff like this happens more often than you think, but being prepared
for it makes all the difference in the world. This homeowner might not
have saved everything in his basement and there really isn't an exact
science to knowing when a plumbing pipe is going to break.
If you have valuable items, you might not want to store them in your
basement. Like I said, things like this happen and those that are
prepared for them, will probably handle
home emergency situations like
water leaks without panicking, if they're prepared for them.
Make sure that you're prepared for the emergencies that you can do
something about.