Water Disasters (And How To Prevent Them)

so today's video is all about water disasters and what you can do to protect yourselves against them oh nuts right like older homes have got a lot of problems with the building code and what the how they were put together and you're really susceptible to multiple multiple different variations of problems yep you guessed it you got a pinhole the newer the house the less variations you have but it doesn't matter they don't make brand new houses today to protect you from every single event and the copper fitting blew off and so the waters water's firing out so i had to quit with my hand and now i'm not going to suggest you do this so what we're going to talk about today is all the different problems you can run into how to mitigate them how to protect yourself from having them in the first place no matter how old or how new your house is they've all got weak spots that's what we're going to cover today we're going to help you protect your house so that you don't have to get the insurance company out to fix your flood as a bonus in this video i set up a demonstration outside i'm going to show you three ways that you can do emergency repairs on a busted water line okay so that's near the end of this presentation but don't just jump ahead to watch it because there's a lot of really good information that will save your bacon remember insurance companies work on the three strikes in your out rule so if you have three major problems that you need insurance coverage for you're not insurable anymore all right so let's talk about the obvious bulk water water is our enemy when it comes to homes generally speaking we need it to survive but we need to keep it under under control we need to manage it when it comes to our construction because the building materials we use and if we don't manage it it becomes a serious problem water can cause all kinds of issues as far as like corrosion and destruction and it can cause mold which is a really big concern in homes so let's talk about all the different problems that you can run into and how you can mitigate the problem which is basically protect you from having it in the first place so before we get started in this let's get outside the house let's talk about water where it comes from we've got two sources and one of them is rain and one of them is the fact that the city brings it to your house on purpose so when it comes to rain we have a house which got a roof and we have water diversion system and basically the water falls and it goes down the roof it's got gutters we we like to have drainage and we like to have a slope away from the building to move water away from the house and depending on your type of foundation you really want to manage that really effectively so if you have a basement you don't want water sitting and going back towards your foundation because then it comes down the wall and you get hydrostatic pressure building up with the water sitting there and it pushes underneath your concrete wall and into your basement so if you have an older house you're going to be in a basement let's say you've got cinder block and the bottom two rows of the cinder block are always darker than the rest of the wall it's because there's water sitting outside of that stacked up against your house the very bottom corner where the concrete wall and the floor come together sometimes you'll even get puddles right because they pour the footing and then they pour the wall and the water comes right through that crack under the hydrostatic pressure it's a big issue if you're on a slab foundation all of our friends in the south cheers to all of you you're on a slab foundation you want to make sure that you manage water there as well because if you have too flat of a surface and the water gets under the slab it'll start to erode away at the sand underneath your slab and then you lose your structure and then you're going to get cracks in your floor and that'll translate through all the tile in your house big problem so make sure you're managing your water if you need to use a french drain system use it if you need to dig a hole in the ground and put a big barrel so that you can have a catch basin to put the water directly to it and make heavy rainstorms use it but keep the water away from your foundation okay bottom line now in the north we also have water that's on our roof that comes from snow and it's a problem we get ice stamming right yeah raise your hand have you ever got ice damning now in our building code it's still pretty sad we have about three feet of protection from ice damning which kinda is the overhang area and so basically what ice stamming is is if this is your roof the snow lands on it the sun comes and it shines and the part that's underneath the house there's it's nice and warm there but the exposed overhang of the roof is very cold okay and so the snow on the top where it's insulated it tends to melt first and not at the bottom and then it gets wet and it pools up and then different times of the year will get freeze thought cycle and what the water does is it it it gets wet and it sits there against the shingle and then when it freezes at nighttime it lifts the shingle and it crawls up underneath as it expands because water expands as it freezes and then the next day it'll melt again but now the shingles are separated well so now the water's sitting up underneath the shingle and it freezes that night and it grows a little bit more and over the course of a week or so it'll get right past the shingles right up to where your osb has got to seem and then the next day drip drip drip it starts working its way into your house it can be a real problem don't underestimate the power of snow and ice damming i once was called to a friend of mine's house he had a brand new house and he's like i don't know what's going on with my dining room floor the hardwood's starting to get all warped and cupping just on one side by a window i said well the only way to find out what's wrong is to open up the wall and follow the water stain so we did we opened up the wall we followed the water stain up and around his windows up to the ceiling up through the second floor right into the attic and what we found was that there was a mushroom vent on the roof outside under the snow and it was buried and the water was just coming right through his vent fall down through the ceiling right through the cavity there's a wire drilled in in the plate went through that hole all the way down the wall down by the window and it found a resting place in his dining room ha after that he decided that he was going to keep the snow off of his roof for the rest of his life because holy cow really snow on the roof could destroy your dining room hardwood yep this happened so that's ice damming we don't want it in order to protect yourself from that maybe the next time you get your roof done don't cheap out on three feet of protection maybe go six or cover the whole darn roof right think about it because that is very very very expensive and it's not something that most people are going to be able to identify without destroying half their house if you have an older house and still talking rain because there's all kinds of problems we can have from water but let's talk more rain lots of older houses in the 30s you're going to love this they made little subdivisions and they built these beautiful homes and basements and little windows for the basements right off the driveway but back in those days they didn't do window wells they didn't do any protection they just had house driveway with windows right on it and so when the winter comes the snow builds up and it rains and then the ice and snow melts that water goes right underneath the windowsill travels through underneath the windowsill and then right down the right down the inside of the foundation wall the beautiful part about these kinds of problems are the only way to keep that from happening is to maintain the caulking on the outside of that window that's invisible because it's underneath about two inches off the ground no one's ever looking there but the best news about that is insurance doesn't cover that that's right ladies and gentlemen insurance generally does not cover water infiltration through a window so a little anecdote i had somebody they renovated a house in 1930 down by a hospital here in ottawa it's a beautiful neighborhood right beautiful renovation and they made the big mistake of putting in a laminate floor throughout the whole basement and then they put in built-in cabinets and tvs and shelves and books and everything all over the place and then they had problems with the rain and the rain came and the rain came and kept coming through that window but they didn't see it because it was behind the wall and so what happened is we got a call one day and this guy just finished his basement they just finished moving in and setting everything up and now his laminate floor was soaking wet and warped and cupping and sticking all over the place he's like where's this water coming from and we were able to trace it back to coming from another window and his whole basement was destroyed and he had no insurance coverage for that yep that sucked so lesson number one if you're going to do a basement the way you protect yourself from that is right here put in a subfloor system because even if water comes through the window and goes down the wall it goes under the subfloor and it's soaking wet okay a proper basement system like this shares the air space with all of these cavities goes up behind your insulation through an air space makes contact with your floor joist cavity which can transfer that moisture outside now this might take a few weeks to dry out but your entire investment is protected and you're on the warm dry side of the subfloor okay that's why we build it because we're expecting water to get in behind we don't go through all these expensive processes because we don't think we're going to have a problem we know we're going to have a problem and this protects you from most of them okay so here's the story we had a rainstorm here in ottawa a few years back and it was torrential we got 100 millimeters of rain and it was just absolutely overwhelmed all of our sewage systems because this city collection of rainwater off the street shared with our sewer system as a backup and when that got overwhelmed guess what that sewer system shares that's right the lateral pipe coming to the house so everybody who had a home who didn't have a backflow preventer valve got sewage and rain water all filled up in their basement god bless them and that was a problem and then it happened again and then it happened again and so our city actually had to go around and start installing these back water preventer valves i let you take your shower it all goes to the city but if the water comes from the city it's it off from coming into your house all right that's all it is nice and simple you can get the same kind of a problem when the city is doing maintenance right another story we're working at a house one day the city came by and they were cleaning out some of their lines isn't that nice high pressure water hose lovely it got blocked and guess what happened it diverted right into my customer's basement yep i had nothing to do with that problem but man i was there to witness it i could not believe my eyes that they would use 5000 psi in the septic line not knowing that the thing was blocked blew all of the sewage into this guy's basement he was a real happy customer again that one little backflow preventer valve would have saved his bacon but they didn't start using them in new houses and new house construction until somewhere in the mid 90s okay so if you have an older house make sure you've got one installed in your house all right and if you don't get one because a majority of all of the sewage problems and major rainstorm problems are going to put water in your basement come from the lack of that valve being present remember you don't have to outrun the bearer just the guy next to you same with the basement you don't have to if you have this valve the whole rest of the neighborhood can fill up with the basement water but if you got the valve you won't all right same situation now that deals with water rain that deals with water coming around the house that deals with septic and sewage where else can you have a water problem well that's real easy a lot of people have got electric hot water tanks okay i'm going to make this suggestion if you're finishing your basement use a system like this with a subfloor because you put this throughout all the finished space and in the mechanical room where you have your hot water tank you don't put a sub floor you put that hot water tank right on the concrete and here's why inside the hot water tank there's something called an anode rod okay and it's a fancy little chemistry situation going on where it's got a certain kind of material in there depending on if you're on city water or country water and it attracts everything that would corrode the steel bucket that is a hot water tank and it attracts it and tracks it and tracks it and eats up the rod most people forget to ever do an inspection on the rod or change it out and as a result the rod is gone after a few years and then the tank gets attacked and almost inevitably what happens is you go on vacation and then your tank explodes because it rusted out from the inside now you come back from vacation and you're trying to figure out why there's four feet of water in the basement it's because there is a shutoff valve on a hot water tank it might i suggest the next time you go on vacation turn that shot water valve off so if your tank explodes it won't at least it won't fill your whole basement with water you're just going to drop 40 gallons 40 or 50 gallons of water in a basement with a subfloor system looks a lot like this when you come home not a big deal remember almost every house has got a drain in the floor somewhere all right and it's not a code that says it has to be the lowest part of the basement so having a subfloor system gives you that little bit of protection to keep everything nice and dry so before we talk about all the different water problems you can have from your plumbing in your house let's talk about one more issue and that is caulking and i'm going through this because i want you to understand guys you need to think about your homes the systems of your home it's a water diversion system for the most part not waterproofing okay and so if your water diversion isn't working there's no backup to it had a customer called me up had a brand new kitchen renovation had a unique house they had a second story and they had a door that walked out onto a like a patio rooftop flat area above the kitchen and it didn't have a railing it didn't have a function it was just it was just there because they built the kitchen in the house strange strange houses have their own strange unique problems and here's what they got so the contractor did a decent job on most of the work but lo and behold the door that goes onto that patio was sitting on top of what we would call a ridge beam a 2x10 engineered laminated beam and then the door goes on top of that and when you waterproof on the outside of a house for a situation like that in a four season climate you generally want to bring the flashing right up to the door well they cheated and they only brought it up about six inches which isn't the end of the world but that flashing needed to be sealed to the house right and they didn't they did the caulking got an air bubble and just kept on trucking how many times i've seen that let me demonstrate what i'm talking about here so you're cocking away and in the tube you get an air bubble and now you're over here well it's friday it's three o'clock you're done you're tired you want to go home and you leave that much space uncocked you leave an inch without cocking well if that's the only protection you've got for your house against water guess what you're screwed here's what happened over the course of a few months it rained and rained and rained and rained and the water kept on going in this little gap okay the wood that that was underneath that gap would swell and now the metal was pulling off the wall so now that gap was getting more and more pronounced but because no one ever used that door no one ever went out on that patio no one ever saw the problem i get the phone call one day hey got a friend of mine who worked in this neighborhood i need a second opinion can you come take a look at my kitchen i pop by the kitchen and he's got a beautiful kitchen pot lights and and the one pot light specifically had stains all around it and there was water dripping through the pot light he's like what causes that i said does it drip every day or just after the rain and he goes just after rain i said well then you've got a hole somewhere in your building envelope where the water is finding its way in and it's just finding an exit the only way for us to find out where the hole is is to open up your ceiling and follow the water so we did we opened up the ceiling followed the water found our way back to that little piece of wood guess what because the water been going in there for so long it's been a little over a year carpenter ants decided to make a home there too right so remember if you have an old tree in your property and it's kind of like rotting away ants live in there and then they send out these little scouts to find other new wonderful places to live and this one found the wet wood and that rim joist now this is a structural piece of lumber right it's holding up the second story of a home ants don't care if it's wet they can eat it easy and so they love it and so they put a whole colony underneath this guy's door we pulled off the flashing and i went it was powder just dust all right unbelievable he couldn't even believe his mind so we had to rebuild the structure of this guy's second story beam and then reinstate all of the kitchen ceiling and everything else because of a cocking bubble folks when you have people working for you and the only thing protecting your home is a caulking go and inspect it yourself it's your house and you got to pay the consequences okay so enough doom and gloom right these are the disasters that happen from bulk water from outside there's one more problem you might run into and that's a crack in your foundation now generally speaking it's the law and foundations if there's a crack in the concrete okay it's on both sides of the concrete concrete doesn't just crack on the outside or just the inside all right so if you see one on the inside or on the outside it's all the way through you need to get that all cleaned out and get an injection guy in there who can seal that up with some epoxies and that is not a very big deal okay it costs about five six hundred bucks depending on the company you could even try to do it yourself there's a some stuff available on the market but get these things fixed and the way you want to look for them is around windows okay it seems to be a weak spot in structure right on the bottom of a corner of a window and it'll crack open there all right or you can do an inspection around the outside of your house and look at your foundation if the if the foundation cracked then the parging the little thin piece of decorative concrete they put on top it cracks too now if the parting is cracked it may not be because of a foundation crack it could just be you had a lousy purging installer right most guys cut the corners and don't cover pardoning when they install it so it dries out and cracks so if you see crack in your purging take a hammer chip off a little bit more and inspect if it's in your foundation and if you see the crack in the foundation trust me it's all the way through and you've got water coming in your house so that covers the majority of the issues that you're going to be dealing with okay for water getting in the house the only other thing i can say is there are a lot of times when people will renovate doors and windows and they won't integrate the house wrap and tape it to flashing to go and divert water from behind the siding out of the window and so if the water gets trapped inside the window it'll go inside and outside and then you'll have water coming through the the trim work around the inside of your window and that's maddening but let's talk about the plumbing as it plays inside the house and if you've got an experience and you want to share it so the world can hear your story and protect themselves from another issue feel free to jump in the comments section and tell us about it but now we're going to talk about plumbing and all the different issues that i've seen in my career and what you need to do to protect yourself i don't want to make this video too long so i'm just going to go through like my top five or six list of different plumbing problems that i've seen in my career one mini splits okay lots of people use a mini split to provide air conditioning or heating systems in their home for additions or areas that are serviced really poorly by their by their furnaces i get it right and so they all have one thing in common in order to do air conditioning you got to have drainage because it takes water out of the air in a lot of home renovations if you get a mini split on the second or third floor of a house they'll put it on an interior wall and then they'll run a drain somewhere else leading to the outside or they might tie it into the dwv system of the home that's the drain waste vent system and if they do that you're going to love this next story i was working for a company got a warranty call just finished the renovation the house is gorgeous and the ceiling is soaking wet and they're trying to figure out what the heck is going on we went to the home and we inspected and we looked at the the deck and they had a waterproofing system there nope that wasn't the issue we had to open the ceiling we were following the water following the water guess what we found it again probably a friday afternoon and the plumber was a little bit late that day he had a lot of things going on and they cut a corner so they had a mini split set up in the third story attic and the pipe to run it entire into the existing plumbing system had to run almost 20 something feet and so that means two pieces of pipe and a coupling and this genius decided not to use all round strapping to hold the pipe and it was almost perfectly horizontal which means 25 feet an inch and a half carries a whole lot of water and what that water does is it sags and he didn't even bother to glue the joint he's thinking ah it's just a condensation line no big deal what happened is he ended up with about 100 pounds of water in there and it just broke went into the ceiling saturated everything and then for the next couple of weeks it just kept raining through the ceiling right crazy so if you're going to be running plumbing lines like that you've got to support them okay abs pipe especially abs even when you use the solvent it doesn't hold together very well you can still break that joint with a decent amount of force so make sure you use all rounder support everywhere that you're going to have joints and abs plumbing if it's going to have the potential to back up and fill up with water all right that's just a really good piece of advice next and not to forget about everybody with really old homes if you have an old cast plumbing house think of it this way the old cast plumbing it's fixed it's not going anywhere remember the old cartoon the house burns down and the pipe and the and the tub are just sitting there that's because that's how strong that stuff is it doesn't move but old houses move because they're just they don't have modern structure they don't have steel brackets they just use nails and so everything sinks and as the housing as the house moves the seal on the toilet and then the toilet with the lead to the cast pipe it can crack all right and so then you can start developing drips and leaks from places you just don't want leaking so consider this if you've got an old toilet in an old cast house change the cast out or you can go to the store and buy a piece of epoxy tubing it's like play-doh and you can break it open and rub it around and you can reseal all the old broken seals on the lead to cast pipe all right it'll make it work like brand new other areas where we have water problems but let's face it all of our water supply systems have got a life span right if it's copper or if it's steel back in the old days right everything will fail over time so copper has a few different issues three of them i think we're going to cover today one is pin holes yeah copper can develop a pinhole all right it's just caused by turbulence in the line so make sure that when you're doing your copper you clean your burrs right because the way the water moves you can actually get a dry spot in a pressurized water line and it'll end up corroding and all kinds of things happen you get a pinhole and it springs a leak and if it happens in a wall well that's hellish because that just starts to get everything really wet and it's slow drip and by the time you find out you've got a water problem sometimes it could be months later and everything's gone to mold that's a bad issue another water issue you have is if you're renovating you start tearing things apart and you'll find that somebody had a copper pipe and they put it into a fitting and they were just just a little short just a little short so what did they do they took solder and they layered it up like crazy and it works fine until one day somebody's just jiggling drywall off the wall happened to me and that joint just blew up see he didn't solder that joint he welded it and that's not how we use solder okay don't be that guy if the pipe's not long enough go buy more pipe all right almost everything that bad that happens in a house happens at the end of the day and people are in a hurry to leave now the other issues we have with supply lines generally is the shutoff valves um up until i'm going to say the last 15 years almost every shutoff valve i've ever seen toilets sinks laundry they're all like with gaskets and you turn them and turn them and turn them and turn them and turn them off they've got that little tin handle on it and if and if it gets old it gets rusty and it can slice your fingers open it's nasty right be careful with those because they've got two gaskets one of them is designed to shut off the water and keep it running through the pipe in the closed position and one of them is when it's open it seals off water from getting out where the handle goes all right but when it's open for a long period of time like most toilets and then you go to close it the other gasket's dried out and it's not going to work and it'll leak and leak and leak so if you're doing a renovation and you think you're gonna do it tear everything out of the bathroom and just shut that shutoff valve and you're fine think again go to the store get yourself a 3 8 cap and some plumbing paste run up the cap and then screw it on the lid because that is going to leak overnight and if you go away on the weekend or you're not paying attention you're going to end up with a flood in your bathroom coming through your ceiling and it's all because the shutoff valve gasket needs to be replaced and if you don't know this that three cents that can cost you thousands of dollars of damage now here's another piece of advice if you're renovating your house turn the water off even take the pressure out of the lines okay don't be that guy because plumbing is usually pressurized at around whoa what is it it's 55 65 psi that doesn't mean anything to you what it means is this is a five gallon pail and most cities pressurize their water so it can fill a five gallon pail in one minute that's 60 seconds now can you imagine having a leak in your house that you don't even know about that's putting this much water in your home every 60 seconds and yet it happens every year and here's where it happens hose bibs everybody who has a basement who has a hose bib pay attention hose bibs are phenomenally how should we say they're infamous hose bibs are infamous for this problem it's not the hose bib that's the problem it's the installer a lot of different issues going on there but a hose bib is a great big long piece of steel and a handle on the outside and it's a long thread with a gasket on it again and when you close it it closes the water off okay but if it's on an angle it's still full of water and when the water freezes it expands and blows the hose bib open which is inside the house isn't that nice and in the springtime people all over the country went out this spring i wonder how many claims tens of thousands probably people who opened up their hose for the first time in a new house or they did a little modification or the tape that somebody put on that hose bib to keep the insulation stuffed in there so that the the gasket part stayed warm finally gave out and the insulation relaxed wait a minute but then it's insulated so then oh you're on the wrong side of the insulation now kids so then it froze anyway you open it up you're going to wash your bike or something next thing you know you're washing your bike you're out there 20 minutes half an hour 30 of these have dumped into your basement [Music] isn't that exciting so then you come inside you're like walking through your carpet and you're leaving wet footprints you're like what's going on that's what's going on somebody did an incorrect installation on the hose bib you blew your line and you weren't even aware of it so the way you protect yourself from that is when you go to open your line in the spring make sure someone's in the house who can hear if you hear that sound shut off the damn hose quick all right open up your ceiling grab one of those trap doors have a look see what's going on because you could be the victim of a poor installation the next issue we've got is water supply lines guys there's a lot of people renovating and they're using pecs nowadays and i love pecs there's nothing wrong with it there's a lot of different systems i'm not going to get into which one's best but there are two major diy crimp systems you can see here this one is a stainless steel ring it's not a continuous ring it's wrapped around there's bumps and it holds on and it catches over and the tool pinches and creates compression and that's nice if it's done right but if that pinch isn't really done well these have a really high rate of failure within the first few weeks okay the first few weeks now here's the problem with a few weeks if you've done your plumbing and you've tested it and doesn't leak and you think you're good to go the next thing you do is you close the wall so now the high rate of failure in a few weeks is going to happen once you've closed your walls right so now it's leaking and you don't see it that means the water is hitting the plate that means you've got issues going on it's going through the wall underneath or the ceiling underneath and it's destroying part of your house before it really shows up because the house will absorb a lot of moisture before it starts to show up okay the better system is the single copper ring you slide it over and you put it in your little fancy tool here and what it does is it changes the diameter okay it changes the diameter of the metal it literally takes all that material and compresses it into a smaller space if you don't pinch this and you get a surge of pressure sometimes it's enough to pop the end off or to stretch it and then you get a leak the amount of pressure that it takes to expand that metal ring to force a leak is going to be something equivalent to two dump trucks you know going in opposite directions and it's just ridiculous so this is like 10 times the strength that you need where this is maybe two times the strength that you need and because you're pinching there's there's variables and there's room there for problems so if you're going to be doing plumbing forget everything to do with that and use these okay so now we're at that point we're going to go and talk about the different kinds of problems that you can run into with your water supply lines because they're under pressure and the folks in texas on the test to this a couple years ago they got a freak storm and their water lines all froze because they didn't know how to provide protection from that storm before it hit so we're going to give that secret what they could have done to avoid all of the damage and we're going to show you what happens if you're working and you cause damage all right the different ways that you can solve that on the spot so let's just jump outside i got a little display setup sometimes when you're renovating you're going to find that the last homeowner did some creative plumbing and you're going to have a little surprise what the oh nuts don't panic in these situations here's how you fix this grab your wrench and compress the copper remember you've got about 60 seconds before you get the first five gallons of water into your home once you've compressed it finish cutting it off now we're gonna just keep on working that compression there we go now fold it back over on itself i really wish i had my square end pliers but an emergency you got to work with what you got here we almost got it okay now at this point the drip has almost stopped and i could do some more where now is a great time now that you've got it under control go find the shutoff valve and give that sucker a turn so here's a little story i was once at a four-story apartment building and i was changing somebody's countertops so i disconnected the water supply lines from the shutoff valves that were on the copper they were on with a compression fitting and the copper fitting blew off and so the waters are firing out so i had to quick with my hand and now i'm not going to suggest you do this here's the answer to this problem if that ever happens to you be prepared like a boy scout because remember we're talking five gallons a minute on the fourth story of a condominium apartment that's a problem have one of these in your pocket this is this shark bite shut off you stick it on here and then you just turn the valve unfortunately i was stuck there for 15 minutes screaming for help on the hot water line burning my hand until the super finally showed up not too damn super canadian of him because his answer to my scream was that's not my problem to which i answered not mine either and i walked away he found the shutoff pretty darn quick after that the last kind of problem you're going to find is a lot of times when people do copper work and they may be trying to change a fitting or add a line and they put too much heat for the soldering and what happens is yep you guessed it you got a pinhole now pinholes can release a lot of water in situations like this you're going to want to have one of these bad boys this alpha tape is actually a siliconized tape and you know you got about one minute before five gallons gets out the good news is this usually happens in a basement the way you work this stuff try not to get the camera soaking wet you start a couple of inches away okay and you really want to stretch this tape and the white line is on here to tell you where your joint should be okay really want to stretch it tight [Applause] we go we're almost there yep you just keep on wrapping this tape over and over and over again wherever the leak is and you pull this the strength is in the tension you get that down to just a couple of drips you can let go now you can go find your shutoff valve and a new pair of jeans so it doesn't really matter if you have an old house or new house plumbing disasters water disasters they can find us all the secret is to be a boy scout and be prepared and mitigate as many of these issues as you can before they happen so let's just recap if you have problems outside seal up your house with better waterproofing not just water diversion use french drains around your house if you can't get proper grading in the basement use subfloors right and try to make sure all of your caulking is up to date and do an annual inspection as for while you're innovating the best advice has always been before you touch anything just turn off the water really the toilet has another flush in it just turn off the water before you start and take the pressure out of the line and all these kinds of problems that are going to find you won't be somebody else's problem now if you haven't subscribed to the channel and you just witnessed me hosing myself down for your benefit i think you owe me a subscribe right now make sure you share this video with everybody you know all right there's a lot of inherent danger in owning a house and a lot of great expense that can come from just simple little mistakes and you can avoid all that too nobody needs to be the victim of a flood it's totally avoidable almost all the time at least i had a lot of fun putting this information together for you today but if you're a victim of a flood and you've got a big disaster in your house and insurance is not covering you then click the link over here we did a playlist to help all the folks out in texas and all that information is available for you you can remediate all of your own floods yourself and this is how you do it safe don't let mold take over your house all right stay safe cheers

Channel: Home RenoVision DIY

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Keywords: jeff thorman, homerenovisiondiy, basement renovation, home renovision basement, basement subfloor, basement flooring, flooding, water management, foundation, how to fix a burst pipe, diy plumbing, caulking, how to turn your water off in your house, how to turn your water off at the street, how to turn your water off at the road, frozen pipes in winter what to do, roof leak, water leak detector, what to do in a flood at home

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Length: 36min 24sec (2184 seconds)

Published: Sat May 28 2022