long story short....cleaning three story house. Start upstairs then middle level getting ready to move to basement and figure not enough h2o to finish job in fresh h20 tank... hook up to spigot on front of house to fill tank up. A bit of time goes by and i head downstairs to get started cleaning and low and behold ...WATER !!!
Frost free apparently busted in the wall bcause of hose being left on it. I extract water, finish cleaning and place airmovers. I called the realtor and explain the situation which he responded "yea weve had that happen before" He asked to leave ac on overnight and i offer to leave fans and bring a dehumidifier back latter that eve. and check on things...
come back about 3 to 4 hours latter and carpet is pretty much dry (it was all glue down or what i call cushion back) MY question is should i charge customer for drying out water since it wasnt my fault . I dont do water damage so not real sure the best way to handle it.
I left fans there overnight and went back next morning and all the carpet was thouroughly dry.
i used to check spigots when i had my old rig bcause of no fresh water tank i had to hook up at every job. dont hook up much anymore and just didnt pay attention this time....
what would have happened if someone else used that spigot besides me... they would have been in a world of s*&t, I feel like somebodys lucky it happened to me bcause i had equipment there to fix it NOW!!!
Frost free apparently busted in the wall bcause of hose being left on it. I extract water, finish cleaning and place airmovers. I called the realtor and explain the situation which he responded "yea weve had that happen before" He asked to leave ac on overnight and i offer to leave fans and bring a dehumidifier back latter that eve. and check on things...
come back about 3 to 4 hours latter and carpet is pretty much dry (it was all glue down or what i call cushion back) MY question is should i charge customer for drying out water since it wasnt my fault . I dont do water damage so not real sure the best way to handle it.
I left fans there overnight and went back next morning and all the carpet was thouroughly dry.
i used to check spigots when i had my old rig bcause of no fresh water tank i had to hook up at every job. dont hook up much anymore and just didnt pay attention this time....
what would have happened if someone else used that spigot besides me... they would have been in a world of s*&t, I feel like somebodys lucky it happened to me bcause i had equipment there to fix it NOW!!!