{"id":43617,"date":"2020-01-07T18:37:44","date_gmt":"2020-01-07T23:37:44","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/the2seasons.com\/?p=43617"},"modified":"2020-01-07T14:38:42","modified_gmt":"2020-01-07T19:38:42","slug":"we-woke-to-the-sound-of-our-smoke-detectors","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/the2seasons.com\/?p=43617","title":{"rendered":"We Woke to the Sound of Our Smoke Detectors"},"content":{"rendered":"

Hello, friends.\u00a0 I am headed home to Lexington today after spending the last five days in Charlotte with Jordan and her family.\u00a0 I think she had a good 40th birthday.\u00a0 She and Charles escaped to the Wentworth Mansion<\/a> in Charleston, SC for the weekend, and then had some time one evening to go to a movie while we grandparents baby-sat.\u00a0 She was also treated to a relaxation soak in a float spa.\u00a0 Every mother of two children under age five needs some relaxation.\u00a0 Right? \u00a0 Finally, I fixed her a birthday meal last night (she requested this recipe<\/a>) complete with a cake that Little Miss and I baked.<\/p>\n

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Our Smoke Detectors Woke Us<\/h2>\n

In yesterday’s post<\/a>, I mentioned that Mike and I woke up to our smoke detectors blasting last week.\u00a0 It happened Thursday morning.\u00a0 I heard what I thought was the shower at 4:35 and assumed that Mike had gotten up early.\u00a0 When I realized that he was in bed beside me, I assumed it was raining outside and went back to sleep.<\/p>\n

Normally, I wake up at 5:20 to go to the “Y” to work out, but for some reason, that morning I overslept.\u00a0 At 6:00, the fire alarm woke us.\u00a0 At first I thought it was our security system and that someone had broken in.\u00a0 Then I heard the word “Fire!” being repeated over and over again.\u00a0 It was coming from the smoke detector.\u00a0 I ran out of our bedroom and to the third floor to see if there was smoke up there.\u00a0 All clear.<\/p>\n

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Water Damage<\/h2>\n

Then I ran down the stairs to the main floor.\u00a0 I checked everything, and when I was on my way to Mike’s office and office, bathroom, I saw, heard, and felt water coming from the smoke detector and lights in the ceiling of the back hallway.\u00a0 I knew then that water was coming from the laundry room on the second floor.\u00a0 I ran up there and saw that the hose to our oxidizer was undone, and water was pouring out of it.\u00a0 Mike ran to the basement and turned off the main water line, but the damage had been done.<\/p>\n

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(This ceiling looks much worse in person. It will all have to be replaced.)<\/p>\n

Surprisingly, only a little water got on the hardwood floors outside of the laundry room.\u00a0 It went through the ceiling into Mike’s office bathroom, and that ceiling and the insulation will have to be replaced.\u00a0 The hall ceiling is okay, and the floor, though somewhat damaged, will look okay when it dries some more.\u00a0 Somehow, most of the water went straight to the basement, and Mike used the shop vac to remove most of it.\u00a0 The dehumidifier will get rid of the rest.<\/p>\n

What Caused It?<\/h2>\n

Two things to point out is that we always turn off the main water line when we leave town, and thank goodness we were home.\u00a0 How did this happen?\u00a0 We have two theories.\u00a0 First off, this is the fifth house that we have lived in that has a laundry room on the second floor, and all of the houses have had drains in the floor.\u00a0 We never had a water issue that required the use of one of those emergency drains before.\u00a0 This time either the plumber didn’t put in the drain after we told him many times to do it, or the drain was covered up by the man who did the tile work in there. We are not sure which one.\u00a0 (I assumed it was covered by the washing machine, and that was why I never saw it.) We have thought about removing a few of the tiles to see if there is a drain and then get that whole situation fixed. \u00a0 The bottom line is that our contractor should have caught the problem, and he did not.\u00a0 Grrrrrr!!!<\/p>\n

We posted all of this on our Instastories right after it happened, and things are looking better now.\u00a0 I HATE the thought of having to deal with dry wall dust because you know it gets into every available crevice, but that’s what we have to do.\u00a0 We will get estimates to fix the ceiling, etc. and go from there.\u00a0 We have a high deductible so this will be out of pocket.<\/p>\n

Like I said on Instagram…….it could have been much worse.\u00a0 It was not a fire, we have our home, our smoke detectors also detect water, and we are safe.\u00a0 Those are the important things.<\/p>\n

Take care.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Hello, friends.\u00a0 I am headed home to Lexington today after spending the last five days in Charlotte with Jordan and her family.\u00a0 I think she had a good 40th birthday.\u00a0 She and Charles escaped to the Wentworth Mansion in Charleston, SC for the weekend, and then had some time one evening to go to a […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_genesis_hide_title":false,"_genesis_hide_breadcrumbs":false,"_genesis_hide_singular_image":false,"_genesis_custom_body_class":"","_genesis_custom_post_class":"","_genesis_layout":""},"categories":[11],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/the2seasons.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/43617"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/the2seasons.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/the2seasons.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/the2seasons.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/the2seasons.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=43617"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"http:\/\/the2seasons.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/43617\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":43628,"href":"http:\/\/the2seasons.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/43617\/revisions\/43628"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/the2seasons.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=43617"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/the2seasons.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=43617"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/the2seasons.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=43617"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}