More puddles in the basement.

We either have an overflowing water softener once again, or the water heater has sprung a leak. Because it happened over night, and isn’t like a tonne of water, I think it’s the softener personally, but I know very little mechanical wise, so I’ve opted for a more seasoned opinion, due to arrive at some point today. If it’s the softener it won’t happen again for several days because it only runs once or twice a week at most. Maybe the drain line is blocked with salt crystals or hard water minerals or something, I don’t know. Fun, fun, fun around here that’s for certain.

Happy Thursday before winter break 2025 starts! Booyah.

**Editor’s note: We have discovered that it is in fact the Water Heater that has sprung a leak. A fairly substantial one at that. So we have shut off the power to the unit. Switched off the water inlet. And drained some hot water by running the taps down to cold. Still there is a non trivial amount dribbling out of the bottom. Enough to soak through five shammies, six full sized towels, a youth poncho style towel, and a dozen or more hand towels. I have mopped several times, and the fresh dribbles continue to flow. I will have a cycle of towels to wash, dry. And reuse to attempt to keep the floors from becoming overly saturated. I seem to have split a knuckle during my endeavours, and I’m not sure when I did that today.

The water goes under the vinyl tiles and out into the main living space of the basement to pool there. So I will have the dehumidifier running non stop to help me soak all this back up. I hope that by turning off the cold water supply that it will not continue to fill, and it will at some point actually be empty. We currently have no hot water. Showers at Grandma’s house until we get this fixed, or repaired/replaced with a new one.

I’m actually glad that I took down the train table, and put the Lego bricks into its own tote bin, because I now have more room in which to mop, and attack this water leak where it will eventually pool once it’s done running under the vinyl tiles. Fewer bits to worry about rotting or developing mould. This has been a day! Good grief.