The Blessing and Curse of Working At Home

The bless­ing part? Being here to notice, early on, a leak from...somewhere...as water starts flow­ing from "some­where around the water heater" out into the garage, then also under­neath the kitchen, pantry and laun­dry room floors.

The curse part? Well, pretty much every­thing I just said.

You know, I thought I still heard water run­ning when I got out of the shower this morn­ing, but didn't really think much about it.

We were talk­ing about how it was time to pull out the wood lam­i­nate in the pantry and kitchen...but the deci­sion was sup­posed to be on our time­line. Plus, did you ever notice that a 1% deductible on your home­own­ers insur­ance always seems like a good idea until you actu­ally need to file a claim?

Ugh. The plumber will be here between noon and 2. I'm brac­ing myself for the worst.

3:40 PM Update - The cur­rent cost is at $2,789 and climb­ing! The good news...we've already hit our deductible!

February 7, 2008 – 12:53 pm | By | Posted in Snarkonomics | Comments (4)

4 Comments

  • Sheri wrote:
    Feb 7, 2008 at 2:32 pm

    oh no! Hope it's an easy fix!

  • Leslee wrote:
    Feb 7, 2008 at 4:04 pm

    This entry could also be titled The Bless­ing and Curse of Home Own­er­ship!! Hope­fully noth­ing too major, but hey, guess you will get to hang out at The Home Depot this week-​end, huh?

  • Stacy wrote:
    Feb 7, 2008 at 4:40 pm

    I wish...turns out we have a leak in the slab, so I get to spend tomor­row watch­ing a plumber find it and then jack­ham­mer up our floor. :)

    Urgh. On the upside...we'll finally get that new floor we've been want­ing! LOL.

    We were trying to figure out if we could do a quick sell of the house..."as is."

  • Kevin Donahue wrote:
    Feb 7, 2008 at 9:11 pm

    How 'bout a cute 3/2 in Flower Mound? I know just the house! ;)