A near disaster averted

pmckeealaska
pmckeealaska Posts: 808
edited June 2006 in Electronics
Last Friday, as I was in the shower, my girlfriend burst in and told me the water filter attached to my water tank had exploded and water was leaking everywhere. I got out of the shower to find about 30 gallons of water buidling up on the floor and heading towards my stereo! I quickly shut off the pump and began toweling up as much water as possible, but the carpet started to get soaked and the water edged ever closer to the speakers. I shut off all power and got everything off of the first floor. One of my new speaker cables was slightly damp, but other than that, the system was fine. I unplugged everything and made sure the cables were all dry before finally setting everything up again yesterday afternoon. Everything played wonderfully, but man was that scary. I got homeowners insurance this morning!
Music and Movie Rig

Samsung 40" HDTV 1080p
LSi25 Front Speakers
LSiC Center Channel
LSiFX Surrounds
Rotel RB 1080 2-Channel Amp
NAD T763 Reciever
Denon DVD 2900 Universal Player
Audiosource 10 Band Digital Equalizer
Audioquest CV-8 speaker cables
Audioquest Sub-X subwoofer cables
Audioquest King Cobra Interconnects
Monster AVS 2000 Voltage Stabilizer
Playstation 3 120GB Slim
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  • steveinaz
    steveinaz Posts: 19,545
    edited June 2006
    Damn, just think if that sucker had popped while you were gone???

    This is a good time to remind people that have their washing machine on the same floor as the house (slab construction), to shut off the water supply valves when your not using your washer. Especially if you don't have stainless braided hoses.
    Source: Bluesound Node 2i - Preamp/DAC: Benchmark DAC2 DX - Amp: Parasound Halo A21 - Speakers: MartinLogan Motion 60XTi - Shop Rig: Yamaha A-S501 Integrated - Source: Rotel CD14MkII CD Player - Speakers: Elac Debut 2.0 B5.2
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  • AsSiMiLaTeD
    AsSiMiLaTeD Posts: 11,728
    edited June 2006
    Good point Steve, never thought about that...
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  • drew spelts
    drew spelts Posts: 310
    edited June 2006
    We had some neighbors that did not shot off the high pressure hoses to their washing machine and went on vacation. When they got back there was water leaking out of the doors everywhere. Just imagine turning a garden hose on full blast in your living room for 3 straight days...... oooh thats scary.
    Harman Kardon AVR635
    RTi10's Up Front
    CSi5 Center
    RTi6's Rear Surround
    Furman RA-1210:rolleyes:
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  • FicmanS
    FicmanS Posts: 134
    edited June 2006
    Close call dude... I would have been freaking out...lol
    Rockin' In My House :D


    Pioneer 50 inch Plasma TV
    Denon AVR-3806
    Denon DVD-1930ci
    Polk Montor 70's
    Polk PSW-12
    Polk CS2
    Polk Monitor 40's
    Sirius Satellite Radio, Monster 3500MKII
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  • polkatese
    polkatese Posts: 6,767
    edited June 2006
    close call, indeed! good job!
    I am sorry, I have no opinion on the matter. I am sure you do. So, don't mind me, I just want to talk audio and pie.
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  • pmckeealaska
    pmckeealaska Posts: 808
    edited June 2006
    I was freaking out. That stereo is the closest thing I have to a child! Sad but true.
    Music and Movie Rig

    Samsung 40" HDTV 1080p
    LSi25 Front Speakers
    LSiC Center Channel
    LSiFX Surrounds
    Rotel RB 1080 2-Channel Amp
    NAD T763 Reciever
    Denon DVD 2900 Universal Player
    Audiosource 10 Band Digital Equalizer
    Audioquest CV-8 speaker cables
    Audioquest Sub-X subwoofer cables
    Audioquest King Cobra Interconnects
    Monster AVS 2000 Voltage Stabilizer
    Playstation 3 120GB Slim
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  • LessisNevermore
    LessisNevermore Posts: 1,519
    edited June 2006
    I had a similar close call, only it was about $15,000 worth of musical instruments!

    My guarantee that it will NOT happen again?
    http://www.gotankless.com/

    Best money I could have spent, and I'm not heating water that I'm not using, saving alot of money on the gas bill!

    (edit) ooops, just realized you weren't talking about a water heater, but it's still something everyone should look into.
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  • millerman 3732
    millerman 3732 Posts: 1,488
    edited June 2006
    pmckeealaska wrote:
    Last Friday, as I was in the shower, my girlfriend burst in and told me the water filter attached to my water tank had exploded and water was leaking everywhere. I got out of the shower to find about 30 gallons of water buidling up on the floor and heading towards my stereo! I quickly shut off the pump and began toweling up as much water as possible, but the carpet started to get soaked and the water edged ever closer to the speakers. I shut off all power and got everything off of the first floor. One of my new speaker cables was slightly damp, but other than that, the system was fine. I unplugged everything and made sure the cables were all dry before finally setting everything up again yesterday afternoon. Everything played wonderfully, but man was that scary. I got homeowners insurance this morning!
    I had something almost like this happen to me about a year ago, I was watching T.V. about 1:30 am and started hearing something that sounded like somebody peeing in the carpet, I looked around like WHAT THE HELL IS THAT? and soon after I found it, the 55 gal aqurium that me and my wife bought 2 months earlier was leaking in the back corner, the aqurium was about 9ft from all my HT gear and tv, I started to panic and by the time I had got over to check out how bad the leak was the entire bottom seal of the aqarium gave out and the thing was leaking around the bottom. I got my wife to wake-up by screaming THE AQURIUM HAS JUST EXPLODED! she jumped up and we started grabing jugs to scoop the water out and we drained a 55 gal aqurium in about 10 min luckly we got it drained before the water spraed out to far, only about 2 ft around the bottom of the stand, I was just glad I was awake I would hate to think how bad it would have been if hadn't. I leard my lesson the hard way now the smaller tank we got to replace the old one is now in a room on the other end of the house.
    Casey
    H/T: Epson 6500ub
    Sony UBP-X800
    Toshiba HD-XA2 (HD-DVD, CD)
    Onkyo 805 (pre-amp)
    Outlaw 7125
    Polk RTi 10 (bi-amped)
    Polk CSi5 (bi-amped)
    Polk RTi6
    SVS PB 12 plus/2
    Velodyne SMS-1

    TV Rig: Samsung 50'' 4k display
    Polk Signa-1 Surround bar
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