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
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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