Faucet Becomes A Homeowner's Worst Nightmare
Your faucets leaking and it has been leaking for about
six months now. It's getting worse and you really don't have the money
to get it fixed, so you just let it continue to leak. Not only is this
water leak annoying to everyone in the house, but you know deep down
inside that you're wasting water and this is starting to wear on your
finances.
The woman I'm talking about woke up one morning to find out that her
leaking faucet had now become old faithful. It had flooded the entire
bathroom, hallway and two of the bedrooms. How would you like to step
out of bed, expecting to step onto your dry carpeting, only to find out
that your floor was like stepping onto a wet sponge?
I couldn't believe the damage and wouldn't have believed it if I didn't
see it with my own eyes. All of the carpeting needed to be replaced, the
drywall in two bedrooms, one hallway and the bathroom needed to be
replaced around the lower perimeter of these rooms. The water had worked
its way up about 16 inches and was starting to smell.
It's like something that I had never seen before, but if you could
imagine turning a garden hose on full blast for about six hours in your
home, you could probably get a pretty good idea what this house looked
like. It's hard to imagine how much damage water can actually do to a
home, until you see it for yourself.
I hope you got a pretty good idea, how important it is to fix any
problems in your house. If you have a squeaking door, or a piece of wood
trim that's loose, this might not be as big of a problem as a loose
electrical wire hanging out of the wall or a leaking water pipe, but all
of these items can lead to bigger problems if they're not repaired as
soon as possible.