Lesson Learned!!
Well not long ago there was a post on here about turning off the water when leaving the trailer for any period of time more than hour or so. I responded that we don't as treat much like our Sticks & B...
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Old-Biscuit wrote:
Middle of night a $0.50 fitting on backside of water heater busted (cracked from factory installed?).......city water ran for HOURS
2" wadding pool in kitchen/living room........flowed out under slide outs flooding our site plus 2 others
$6000 in damages/costs....new carpet/new linoleum, complete new subfloor in large slide out, motel costs etc.
Since then......no city water ---run on fresh water tank and pump exclusively
Easy to just turn pump OFF when we step outside, go to bed, leave for the day, go for a walk etc.
Best to check floor under carpet in slide outs.
We thought we had gotten all the water up but missed a corner in slide....then I moved chair at dinette and found soft spot.....slide out had to be removed, turned on its side.....subfloor removed (swollen/crumbing from water saturation)
New subfloor installed , slide out reinstalled then new carpet.
All this while FTng.
YEP....no city water PUMP ONLY for us!
Lesson Learned
I think we got lucky the carpet in slide out got damp, not really wet, we worked for a couple hours with a rug doctor to get as much water out as possible. Even though it was 80 degrees out side we fired up the furnace on electric to dry out the floor ducts.
As to training dogs, well they had not got up on the counter in a long time, for a time we were moving the recliner nearest the sink out and away so they could not get up on the counter.
Old Biscuit, I just may join you in pump and tank only!
