Extreme Home Makeover -- NOT!

I am going to make an attempt to make a very long story short.

On Wednesday night the babysitter called me at work and said that there was water in our kitchen. Coming from under the stove. FREAK OUT!!! I was stuck at work, and there is water on my floor? I called Brandon who was on a break. He left work and headed home to this scene.

Thankfully we are renting our house and so we were able to call the rental company. They called a plumber for us, but not until Thursday morning. We did not have water at all on Wednesday night.

The plumbers come in on Thursday morning and they say, "you have a leak." Yeah, well I figured that one out. First they investigate the bathroom behind the oven. Nice, huh? So what do you call a bathroom without a toilet?

"No water coming from there. It must be under the slab," they say. NIGHTMARE! So they bring in the jackhammer and begin to break up the slab. Did you know that a 13 month old will sleep through a jackhammer in her home when she is tired enough?

First they put a hole under my stove. Nothing. "Let's try the hallway." So move there and find wet dirt, but no leak, or pipes for that fact. "Maybe it is coming from the master bedroom bath, let's look there." NOOOO!!! I didn't scream the words out loud, I wanted to pack up and move to a fresh new house. But it was quitting time and so they saved that mess until the next day. Up to Rio Rancho we go (we stayed with my in-laws).

On Friday they came and tore apart my bedroom and found nothing.

Then they moved back to the hallway where they found a tunnel that they water had created. But still no pipes. They went and made another hole in my bedroom, where they thought they water was coming from. Then they went into the 1/2 bath. There they tore up the tile looking for the water. Still nothing. Finally they went back to the hole where they found the tunnel. They enlarged it and dug deeper.

And sure enough, pipes. Leaking ones at that. I am not kidding when I say that about 10 minutes after they found it they had it repaired. Two days of digging for this! And that brings us to the end of day 2.

And the hallway in front of my bedroom and the 1/2 bath (bedroom is on the left, bath on the right) looked like this. So we go back to Rio Rancho where the house is clean and has running water.

Now let's count here... we have one hole in the kitchen, 2 in the hallway, one in the 1/2 bath, and 2 in my bedroom. They cut drywall in the 1/2 bathroom and in the hall closet looking for the water. There is, yes, 8 holes that are either in my floor or in the walls of my house. Not to mention MUD MUD MUD and DUST DUST DUST, EVERYWHERE!

On Saturday the plumbers came back to cement up the holes. The above picture is of the hallway that was tore up. We cleanned it the best we could and this is what we live with now. Hopefully soon the rental company will send people in to repair the walls, tile, and carpet. The positive end to all of this is that WE DO NOT OWN THIS HOUSE!!!!

How was your weekend?