Where's the Water?

Granny here,

When I first started house hunting I knew that the next home would not be perfect just as the one I was living in wasn't perfect but I did expect to have some water.

The first house I liked and was planning to buy had water issues on the abundant side and the one that I finally bought had big water issues, like major leaks which couldn't be found. Go figure, just my luck, huh?

Well, a knock on the door, one day before moving day, the meter reader says you have a major leak somewhere, you have used 27,000 gallons of water in a month. I said I haven't even moved in yet, he says well the water is going somewhere and it's your responsibility to find and repair it. Well, thanks a lot, welcome home!

Plumber, plumber, where's the plumber, well he's in the phone book but he's not here. We called and called and called 3, 4, 5, 6, plumbers , finally one said he would come and take a look and that's about all he did was look. Well I'll be back tomorrow to start the job, who did he think he was kidding, this went on for days, come and go , come and go. In the mean time we moved in , no water, no toilets, no cooking nothing. Talk about roughing it, boy were we ever. Hauling water from the neighbors, from my friend the next street over, from the old house, just anywhere we could get water and boy this was not easy on a 72 year old that had been going like fighting fire for the past month day after day without stopping.

My strength was running out, it was one problem after another, first this leak, then another leak, where's the leak they couldn't find it, finally they dug up the yard put in new lines, still didn't know where the leak was, hey, what's going on here, where's the leak. Then they decide it's under the hot water tank embedded in the concrete, well, what now, dig up the concrete, God forbid not that. We were lucky didn't have to do that after all, they ran new lines to the tank and guess what, now no water to the 1/2 bath or washing machine, now run new lines to those two and we're done! Water, Water everywhere and even some to drink. But wait, there's one thing missing, "the bill", any takers out there in bloggers land! Will keep you posted once it comes in or maybe you'll know when you hear me screaming!

Granny here, just saying!