Monday, January 16, 2012

Homeowner Beware of Water, Water Everywhere



This is the season for winter vacations and Grand Bay Building and Remodeling cautions you to prepare your home for extended trips away. Consider turning off your main water supply - just in case.

I write this suggestion after 3 separate family experiences in the last 2 weeks. Our son returned home after spending the Holidays here in Michigan to find water seeping out his garage entry door. A refrigerator water valve had failed resulting in a thorough soaking - he vacuumed about 15 gallons of water!!

Just last week, our daughter called with a "dad come quick" - for whatever reason water had just begun spraying(shooting) out of the cold water supply valve to her washer. This box in the laundry room wall has a small drain but not to catch this kind of water. Had she not been home and in the room to find the wet floor- there would have been another flood situation.

What actually prompted this post, was a water leak in our powder room that I just discovered this weekend. The toilet water line to the shutoff had begun to slowly leak which I noticed while cleaning. This is just the type of leak that could have gone unnoticed as you leave for vacation- only to continue to become worse over the time that you are away.

Based on these very recent situations- please consider protecting your home from water damage when you're away. It should be a simple thing to turn off your water supply- check into this before you leave home for any
extended period of time like a vacation. Hope I have just saved you from the mess my son found when he arrived home- Nancy, Grand Bay Building and Remodeling ph 231 995 9057

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