Things that make you say Oh S**t!

[dsaundry]

So I got home late last night and being that I was not tired and anxious to make sure my ato was working properly, {I had plumbed it in the night before} I excitedly filled the 50g barrel and ran it to test for leaks..it was perfect, no leaks at all. Feeling kind of smug about my work I proceded to putter around the den a bit setting a few more things up and organize the room a bit more, after doing this for about 5-10 minutes I heard a noise that just didn't sound right. Looked at the tank, nope it seems ok, looked down at the floor..water fricken everywhere. Fortunately I quickly figured out the problem, when I tested the pump and it ran water through the line it also crated a reverse siphon from the barrel, so it sucked about 10g of water on the floor before I was able to grab my cordless and drill a release hole in the pipe. So now that I have spent the last 2 hours cleaning up this bloody mess, here is the real problem..How the heck do I explain to my wife when she goes to shower in the morning, that there are no towels in the house because I have used every bloody one of them to suck up all this water....Oh boy, I am going to be in big twubble.

[lastlight]

Where is your laundry room and how quiet are the machines? I'd consider doing the towels to save face!

[dsaundry]

Unfortunately the laundry room is below the bedroom, I got busted this morning. Oh well I suppose there is always room for me to sleep with the dogs..

[mseepman]

I'm now a huge (did I say HUGE) fan of Shamwows...a box of them can be had at Costco and each little towel can soak up what 5 bath towels do. Used them far too often lately.

[Lampshade]

Sorry to hear about the leak, i've done some of those too. for cleanup I LOVE my shopvac, cleans up 99% of big water spills. Just use a towel to grab the rest. Shamwow's are a good idea, i have some for the car, but they'd probably work well for this aswell, i'll hopefully not be trying it.. but as i've learned, water can appear at any time.

[trinac]

Originally Posted by mseepman

I'm now a huge (did I say HUGE) fan of Shamwows...a box of them can be had at Costco and each little towel can soak up what 5 bath towels do. Used them far too often lately.

Good to know! I love Costco.

Sorry to hear of the spill, I hate those!!

[Ross]

OH S**T moment #1
Remembering that you turned on the RO unit to fill a 5 gallon pail about an hr after it would have been full. Good thing the ro unit is in the basement.

OH S**T moment #2
Doing the same thing as above a few weeks later.

(solution to above was to buy a sprinkler timer)

Run the timer for 45 minutes
Bucket still not full, run timer for 15 minutes more

OH S**T moment #3
Finding out 2hrs later that the timer failed and didnt turn off.

Open basement door, throw timer out the door at the garage wall in a hopes of it bursting forth with all its made in china parts.

OH S**T moment #4
Find Siding on the garage cracked from the timer previously thrown at said wall.


Solution, buy a garbage can and set timer on wrist watch.

And Shamwows ROCK!!

[globaldesigns]

Well that sucks.

My story is turning on a pump to test it with an external skimmer I had on my old JBJ28... Well I hooked up one end, but not the other and when I plugged it in, I started pumping water everywhere. What was bad about that is that I pumped water all over the electrical/surge bars. things were crackling and smoking, and basically my coralife timer/bar turned black and burnt to a crisp.

I think we all have a story.

[lorenz0]

since I don't have a check valve on my 25gal I forgot to close the ball valve when I turned off my pump during a waterchange.... lets just say I won't make that mistake again and I plan on putting a check valve in soon

[Beanz]

Mine was my first 30 gallon sw tank. At 2:00 in the morning i wake to a massively loud crack (tank was in my room) i had no idea what it was. i shot outta bed and my feet were soaked then my heart jumped into my throat. (i was verry lucky the breaker tripped or i wouldnt b here, noob mistake of having the power bar on the floor) then it took a while to get the water soaked up with towels got to bed at like 5:00. i think my dad said that the total damages were like $10 000 but it was covered on insurance the furnace had to b replaced bunch of ducting and total floor redo in my room (good thing or my dad would like kicked me outta the house.) i also was sleeping in the family room for like 2 months. all in all not fun but i not have a 45 and a 15 in my room!!!!!!!! gotta love the hobby