As a plumber, my guess would be a nail from the baseboard She mentioned painters/painting and what she showed was low in the wall and was not a hole cut out higher up. SOMETHING HAS TO CHANGE/BREAK (nail, age, etc etc) for there to be a random flood outta no where most leaks from deterioration are a drip.....drip.....drip. That over time speeds up and finally becomes big enough to become noticeable and or significant enough to ruin a cabinet let alone flood the place
As a contractor, I have walked into flooded homes. A nail in plumbing would immediately show up in less pex and you have low water pressure. ( might self seal) until nail rust.
Yeah I’ve had it happen in my house where 15ga nails used for wainscoting were shot into a 4” drain stack servicing 2 bathrooms. Lasted 5 years then the nails rusted through and water damage was noticeable from the basement.
@@travis33425 the flood has already been documented.. Sell a home and don't report the past? Well, I guess it's okay if the Buyer/Seller is *Naive.* It can actually lead to things beyond the *Discovering.*
I'm a PM for a company that handles losses like this. Please make sure all areas are dry prior to reconstruction as it could cause secondary damages months later. This is definitely homeowners claim worthy.
Make sure to get it fully dried out black mold is a killer! Some thing happened in a home I was renting. We thought we dried and cleaned it up fast enough, but black mold started growing in the drywall. Two years later everyone in the house was affected from troubled breathing, bloody noses, and seizures. I hope things get better!
Yes this happened to me. Under the totally normal looking wood floors and behind all the normal looking drywall our whole house was saturated with black mold and I almost died from it because it took a while to figure it out
Make sure to test for mold. My husband and I were exposed to mold for several months, and we are still experiencing health problems several years later.
Hello, can you explain how you were exposed to mold like where it was? I’m scared bc I’ve heard that it’s not always visible. I hope you and your husband are doing better nowadays 💜
@@Notahaterforreal We couldn’t see the mold, but there was a spot on the floor in the bathroom that was soft. I’m guessing there was mold in the walls. We tested the dust in different rooms in the apartment, and it came back in the top 15% of moldy homes.
You need to file an insurance claim and get you house dried out tear all the floor and tile its done for remove all baseboards 2 foot cuts all around or 16 inches i do this at work every day and if you guys are ever confused on wether its water from the outside or inside go to your water meter and check the valve if there is a broken pipe somewhere and its spilling lots of water you will most likely see the meter spin real fast or at a medium pace you can always shut the water off yourself with a wrench you will only see the gauge spin if water is running in the house
This happened to our house also ... entire house. It was a broken hot water pipe.... an original galvanized pipe from 1958. Homeowners insurance required us to remove the sheet rock in each room that had water in it and all of the original flooring was removed. We also had to replace our cabinets in the kitchen. It took MONTHS to repair. The entire house had to be packed up, emptied and stored for months. What a pain.
Dehumidifiers and possibly insurance should have been called asap. The floor is done for and now you get to worry about black mold between the walls. We bought a house where the previous owner diy’d or got a discount from his friend/family and we had no clue about all the “fixes” and not to mention when we did end up having flooding from 2 of the “fixes) we found years old mold because they would just mop and call it a day
Have your house checked for mold or asbestos after this. Our home flooded just the same and we had tile, half the house had torn walls as most studs started to grow some form of mold. Your house will be uninhabitable if you have any issues.
Man this is f'd. I just found this channel and you basically follow a whole timeline where she build this home and when it's finally done, it floods and then they just simply moop the floors I'm in awe rn.
Facts, and don't believe a P.M. while handling your flood. Until you make friends with your technicians(the guys who actually do the work). P.M.s are only hired to run up the bill, and squeeze every penny out of the customer or insurance company. The technicians know how to do their job, and aren't typically money milkers. Especially if you have a tech who's hourly. They don't make money by overselling, so they just take care of the people going through a disaster. They're the one you want to become friends with. I saved alot of people money before the company, "let me go" LMAO. I just don't like screwing people over while their going through a stressful situation.
@Jo Heat causes humidity. Cold air will drive moisture out. Heat will just cause it stay and spread. Yes, direct heat is slightly better than cold, in regards to a blow drier. But not in buildings or other areas than do not have good circulation/ventilation.
I have experienced something similar to this. Earlier this year, I was using the hose, and I just finished, so I just kept it outside since we usually do this, but I left the water on and didn't know that the outside faucet was leaky, and it resulted in the basement getting flooded due to my family and I living on a hill. To made matters worse, in the basement was 2 massive refrigerators and my entire Lionel O gauge collection of 4 locomotives, 6 coaches, and a handful of rolling stock, in which, while those were on a table only big enough for a small O gauge layout, the cables that connected the track to the power outlet were on the ground. Fortunately, I always unplug my cables whenever I'm done running my trains, and, for a miracle, the water either wasn't deep enough for us to get shocked or didn't reach the outlet before anyone found out. Either way, no one was hurt, and I got away with a light reprimanding. The moral of both stories is to pay more attention when it comes to water, cause you can either lose your home or your life.
Or just shoot em lower where there's actually a stud and also metal straps . One of my guys did thus exact thing but thankfully I caught before turning on water
@@SoSo-li6dnunless you're the person that built it, or renovating it; you will not know where all your plumbing or electrical lines are. You can use a bit of common sense, but even in older houses there is no way to know for sure unless you put it there yourself. I found junction boxes in my walls and ceilings when renovating.. no idea how the place hadn't burned up before now.
Like many mentioned, get the remediators right in. When we had a flood due to plumbing, the remediators sprayed for mold and had hot air blowers (felt like over 100 degrees) throughout the house - running 24/7 for at least a week.
I did that to my parents' house once. I cleaned out the laundry machine filter and accidentally didn't screw it back in all the way. I ran a load of laundry around 11 pm that night. Then I went to sleep expecting nothing more than to put my clothes in the dryer when I woke up. Ha, I I woke up to my dad screaming and cussing my named. Water was everywhere. My mom wasn't really mad because she had been waiting to get the flooring replaced & this meant the insurance would pay for it.
I’ll tell you exactly what happened. Someone shot a nail straight through that line. If I’ve seen it once, I’ve seen it a thousand times. This is why nail plates are important y’all.
One of the freezes in Texas last year caused our pipes to burst and our house flood. It was horrible. Replaced the whole floor, found mold, tore down several walls, lost a ton of furniture. Thankfully the insurance company took care of everything but god, it was just so overwhelming and it made me feel so powerless.
In Texas too and my dad always shuts off our water or keeps our sinks and stuff on whenever freezes happen- MOST of the time pipes don’t burst, but then sometimes they do and we have to stand in the cold while he fixes them
lol, not complete rebuild ya goof. The floor has to come out to the subfloor, sheet rock and insulation up a couple feet. Get some blowers and dehumidifiers to dryer out, then replace and you're good to go. I do this every day.
@@suburbangardenpermaculture3117 Most countries in Europe use cement and brick predominantly too (some use cinder blocks, but almost no one uses timber frame style of construction here).
@@Etianen7 I mean.... OK. Like I said, jails, prisons and government housing use block construction lol. And brick? Brick is a framed house with a brick face. Your homes aren't MADE of bricks, they are faced with bricks. Most new construction here is brick or stone exterior... over a wood frame.
I worked in a house that leaked all weekend and flooded the house. Turned out the people who installed the new baseboards had punctured the tub supply line, which was on the second floor. A good chunk of the main floors flooring had to be pulled up and all the drywall under where the bathroom was had to be removed. Such a pain for 1 nail.
Oh man I feel you. At my house in WA, the pipes were going bad and there were four different floods while I spent only three years there. Thankfully it was always just the bottom floor but what a nightmare
My grandparents house flooded after they passed away and we sold it. The new neighbors were from out of state and hadn’t actually moved in yet. The water and power had been shut off and they had just turned it back on. The house is on county water so the pressure from the county water busted the water line connected to the fridge and flooded the house without us knowing and the neighbors knowing until the mom came down one day and walked in the house. The counters, cabinets, and floors were sagging. My mom had to crawl under the house and cut the plastic they had under the house to let the water out. The house was musty and mold had started growing. Took a lot of work, but they got everything fixed and it was like nothing had happened.
As an electrician, I just know what I’ve seen. (Payday is Friday, shit runs downhill, don’t bite your fingernails. Etc.) High probability of a screw or nail with your water line there practically nestled in your drywall. If there was an elbow or connector on it I would say you might have a “water hammer” situation, but it looks like it’s straight up from the basement. In which case, open up the wall until you see the pipe exiting into the bathroom. Visually inspect to find your penetration. Once you know what happened EXACTLY take pictures. (Whoever/whatever is responsible for your leak is also responsible to pay for damages from said leak) Then call your plumber Srry that was so long, hope it helps someone somewhere. Have a good one y’all!
This gave me PTSD flashbacks. Story: we moved out to get our home renovated, the plumber set up new plumbings, the builder came in to set up some interiors, then the electrician came in and opened for the water since he had turned it off before the other two guys. ------- the builder had drilled into the new water supply line. Neighbor was not home. Her home flooded. I was hungover when I got the call.
Definitely install a Flo by Moen. That thing could tell that my tenants left a sink slightly running and alerted me. It also automatically turns off the water for you in emergencies.
That sounds really useful for people who can't be home to monitor, like snowbirds. Where do you put it? My grandparents ended up with a massive water bill because the main just a foot from their outdoor shutoff cracked while they were away.
Something similar happened to me. I assumed when I saw the basement floor that previous tenants had some sort of a water issue, it had ruined the cement. I was unaware that they had never fixed the issue, they had just turned off the water supply to the outside faucet so when I turned it on to clean outside bc they obviously had never done it, I ran the water quite long. It was a townhouse so the living room was towards the back, and that evening when I walked to the back door to check if it was all dry, the carpet was soaking wet. My mom was visiting at that time and so when she went downstairs to do her laundry, she spotted water coming from the ceiling. Turned out there was a quite a hole on the pipe that was behind the wall upstairs. Landlord only got it fixed, but I had to remove the whole carpet myself, and cover the big hole on the wall that the plumber made. It sucks big time when situations like this occur.
the moment I saw where the pipe was at when you removed the base board, I was 95% sure someone nailed or screwed into it. I'm not a plumber, just a man who does my own house work. Listen to the person who said you need to file an insurance claim because either way, now the floor is bad. When they fix the leak they can move the pipes in a better location so it doesn't happen again, They're being paid by the insurance company.
Over the winter we had a little basement flood. It took them nearly 2 months to fix the damage. They had to rip out almost everything. Good luck. You're going to need it.
This happened 4 times in less than a year in the apartment I just moved out of. The copper pipes kept getting pinholes in them. Multiple other units had the same issue.
Sorry this happened to you! My former home had a water curse. Water gushed in the back when it rained and plumbing backed up. Then one day the neighbors asked how the repairs from the fire went. 😅
right now dealing with an issue of depris clogging our lines from the street since were on the main road. its a mess. our water waste went into the yard and stone cellar. this is not a good start lol
This video gave me anxiety. This happened to our house also ... entire house. It was a broken hot water pipe.... an original galvanized pipe from 1958. Homeowners insurance required us to remove the sheet rock in each room that had water in it and all of the original flooring was removed. We also had to replace our cabinets in the kitchen. It took MONTHS to repair. The entire house had to be packed up, emptied and stored for months. What a pain.
We just had reallly heavy rains in North Florida that flooded out roads, it came up on our patio like halfway to the door, it hasn't gotten that far yet and we've lived here 5 years. Scary stuff, so glad it didn't make it to or past the door.
That happened to us right when my son was in a horrific car accident and we came home from the hospital one night and all the floors were wet. Had to have the flooring removed and drying and replacing cost us about $14000. All because a leaking pipe in the wall that supplied a water line to the refrigerator. Had to replace the Sheetrock as well. I cried it was bad.
Wow.... so sorry this happened to you guys. At least you found and fixed the problem. Things will go more smoothly now, and to be honest it could have been sooooo much worse. My very best wishes!
The plumbers that were hired during the home's construction are required to put metal nail guards on any framing members they run their pipes through, before the drywall goes on. This includes studs, rafters, joists, and top and bottom tracks of the wall. As you can see something that takes 2 seconds to install for a plumber saves everyone 10's of thousands of dollars worth of headache.
We had this happen from our dishwasher two weeks after we bought the house & the insurance tried to not pay us!! Hopefully you took photos and filed a claim immediately!!
I work for a restoration company, usually you would do a 2 flood cut around the whole room and see if any bacteria has formed. It only takes up to 36 hours for bacteria to start forming. After the 2 foot flood cut we would treat it with anti macrobial and if there’s mold we would treat it with MMR. You would then have to dry it out with about 8 axial fans and 1 dehumidifier.
I had this happen to me in my previous house. I was frantic. I was forced to rip out 9 walls and 2 floors, to find out that 2 of the pipes have cracked. I was told that whomever installed the pipes installed really old pipes and scammed the previous owner on the installation. I spent $37k in repairs and replacements. 7 of the 9 walls were rotted and produce massive amounts of black mold. So I got very frightened and tore down 14 walls in total and exposed all the home framing and rebuilt from that. All the floors got ripped out completely and new ones installed. 3 years later, hurricane Sandy took my entire house and dumped it into the ocean. So I was forced to move and purchased a new home some place else.
The same thing happened to my house. We have a water purifier under our sink that takes our tap water and then does something to purify it. One day I was doing dishes and I noticed that the floor next to the sink was wet, more wet than it would be if I had spilled water. So I looked under the sink and saw that there was a small trickle coming out of the water purifier. I told my dad and he fixed it. But two days later, my brother went downstairs at about 4 am to get a drink and stepped into 2 inches of water. He turned on the lights and saw water covering our floor. We had to replace the water purifier, our flooring, our baseboards, even portions of our drywall that had been damaged by the water. We were pretty much living upstairs for about a year. Even worse, this all happened during Covid quarantine.
if you have a well, and or hard water, the sediment and minerals cause the copper piping in the house to thin, and can sometimes even create pinholes, thus causing a leak. replace with pex piping if you can, & make sure you have a good water filtration!
Get at least 3 dehumidifiers running in there STAT. That kind of what leak, is going to cause some major damage right down to the bones of the house if you don't dry her out FAST.
Ask the drywall crew. Sometimes a drywall screw makes contact with a pipe but doesn’t go through. Over time a hole wears through from movement, or if copper pipe, dielectric affect. Say the dielectric cause in the upstairs bathroom of a multimillion $ home. Lost the floor separated and feel, tub enclosure fell, tile came off wall. I worked doing yard work etc, was asked to clean it up. He was a bit pissed when I told him I had found the cause.
Honestly you should of called a water damage clean up crew they would have made sure the house was dried out properly and stop any type of mold growth and because of the amount of water in the video black mold is a real risk now. Also all the drywall at the base boards has been compromised.
That really does suck. I know. We’ve had two flooding experiences in our house. One from a faulty dishwasher when we first moved in and years later, the backyard flooded into the basement. Not fun. We’ve had to rent trash pumps a few times in the spring since that happened the first time to battle it out and prevent the waters from reaching the house again. I knew right away seeing the clear water that it was an internal issue as well.
Like a month after my bf bought his house his basement flooded ms we had to re do the whole downstairs.... right after we fixed everything and went to finally set up the basement one room flooded again... we had to fix the issue causing that and take out a all the floor in that room to make sure it wasn't flooding again... it's been like 2 years now and we only got to use half the house the whole time...
As a water mitigation technician I advise you call a restoration company as growth (mold) and swelling damage can occur due to drywall and wood product absorbing the water.
Ugh we had a flood in our house. I was young so I don't remember it very well but I know a lot of our stuff was ruined. Lucky it looks like there wasn't furniture n such around for this!
My families current house also flooded when we were first moving in. The source was the washing machine spigot that snapped off. It happened while moving the new machines in so we were there for it and a ton of friends came to help us move, so thankfully we were able to all grab towels and dry it up before any permanent damage was done. We had industrial fans for weeks though and the sound drove me crazy, but thank goodness we didn’t have to replace the brand new hardwood
As some one who works in water mitigation you probably need to take up ypur floor and depending on flooring you might need to expose sub floor so it can dry put properly if not you will get mold
This happened in my old house. It was the water line yo the waterheater. In the attic. Whole upstairs ceiling came crashing down, water gushed down the stairs to downstairs. It was a mess. $17k was the final cost.
this happened to our house, one of the pipes burst beneath the house. we had to get new floors, new furniture ect. we basically had to get the whole downstairs of our house revamped. good thing i noticed the small leakage from the floorboards.
Had the exact same thing happen in our home. Heavy rain, assume it’s leaked in, nope… pinhole leak in the water in-line. Pain in the ass to fix but done!
Watch out for that water line to the sink. I had flood in my home due to the water supply line underder the sink. Those lines are easy to change out. Check your lines. Buy quality lines & chage them out. Home builders don't use high quality plumbing supplies. They stuff they used needs to be replaced.
We've had a pinhole sized leak in an upstairs copper pipe. He cut a hole in the wall but couldn't see any leak. 2nd time saw the tiniest stream of water, that little pinhole cauced two 2AM waterfalls into a downstairs closet. Copper does fail.
I work in restoration and there’s a 99.99% chance that your house is not dry.. in the slightest. Drywall, trim, and structural components soak up water and don’t dissipate it fast enough to prevent fungal growth. At the very least drying equipment needs to be set, but you’ll usually have to do demo too.
It's very obvious that someone nailed it when they installed the baseboard. The plumber shouldn't have installed the pipes that close to the wall, but whoever installed the baseboard should have been aware of them.
We bought a house to remodel and move into. We gutted it and took sinks, toilets, showers, everything out and redid drywall, floors, etc.. we walk into our house one day to work on it after not being there all weekend and the entire house is flooded.. turns out the city was changing out the water meters and when they replaced ours they TURNED THE WATER BACK ON. All of our furniture that we wore storing, all the floors, walls, drywall we had that still needed hung, ruined. It was in the vents and ruined everything. The city refused to pay for the damage so we were left to pay for everything and had wasted so much time and labor. It was DEVASTATING.
Sounds like it. Really should have stood your ground and held the city accountable. Yeah it may have been a timely situation but the end results would have DEFINITELY been worth it. City gets away with these kind of things all to often.
Borax, my friend. Everywhere. You can vacuum it up later. Won't fully dissolve in cold/room temp water. Deters bugs and mold but is largely harmless to mammals (like you and likely any pets) and once everything dries it leaves a white powder you can leave there or brush and vacuum up.
My family and I went back to my home state of Hawaii for a vacation from Texas, came back to our house two weeks later, the whole entire house was flooded because of a toilet shut off valve decided to leak, needless to say three feet of drywall removed and replaced and all of the hard wood floors were destroyed, and many furnitures and appliances.