Not work on your house

First off I'm more of a destructive person than a constructive person. That being said The bank is a little tight and we had a faucet to put in. Easy I've done it before. 3 other times to be exact. First I break the hose connecting the cold water to the faucet. No biggie. Head to home depot get a replacement, and actually the employee was very helpful. I did need a male end shut off valve instead of a female end. At this point I have the main shut off and all the faucets and bathtubs on. My thinking is main is off and no water is running from the valve I just removed from the house pipes, why not turn all the valves off. I do that, come back and check no water GREAT I'll be right back and fix it no problem. I even leave my cell home when I run back to the store. Get home and...
I live in a tri-level house and the bathroom was on the top floor. When I get back my wife says " I've been trying to call you!!! You flooded the bathroom!"
The laundry room on the bottom floor was flood, the bathroom on the bottom floor was flooded, and the vent in the den was leaking water. I don't know how much water was there but at least 2 inches thick, plus all the towels we owned were on the floor.Bad think is, I still couldn't wait to go to my garage and pull the copper and brass from that STUPID SINK.
P.s. Now the hot water hose leaks and I now have to replace that.

There are no words to make you feel better about this situation, so I gift to you...

a happy goat.



It was this, or a sympathy card. I like goats better.


Sirscrapalot - My happy place is filled with beer an coolers. You can keep your unicorns an rainbows. - Anonymous

If you just took the valve off the cold side and there was no water coming out, then what likely happened was 1. Someone opened a cold water side faucet or a facet looking for warm water and the water crossed over through the valve and ran out where the cold valve had been removed. This seems to be an inordinate amount of water for this to happen, but if it was not noticed, I guess it would be possible. or 2. There are units above you that share the same water riser and they opened a valve (or more likely, flushed a toilet) and the water lost the closed system vacuum that had held it in place and it all ran out of the open valve in your bath. Either way, you have a disaster on your hands.

im also more destructive

i went to strip 7 big industrial printers in May this year.
the manager at the company saw me working and said that if i could build up/assemble the printers as fast as i was stripping them, he could offer me a job

i told him im more of a damaging director than a managing director.