My last post, Sunday morning, I'd just discovered my water heater had been leaking for an while. Well after resting for a bit I went to the store to buy some supplies and do a little triage.
When the water heater was installed a catch pan was placed beneath it. Idea being that since I was leaving the panel off of the cubby at the time, I'd notice the wet if it developed a leak. As such I never bothered with installing a drain for the pan, still better than no pan at all like when I got the place. Then when I installed the panel I put in the water alarm to warn me, the one that didn't sound (more on that in a bit). Got PCV supplies to add a pan drain, and some blocks to space the heater up off the pan a bit. Got back home drained the heater and proceeded to start demoing the face of the cabinet. I'm pretty sure that the closet is going bye bye. If not gone completely I'm going to be reworking it some adding a proper door, and maybe a closet above to utalize the wasted 4-5' of space between the heater and ceiling, and it's an electric heater so no combustion issues. Last thing for the day was to pull the water heater out of the hole, and put a fan blowing on the space to dry it out some.
Today after work got under the house and started digginG in to see what I could do. First order of business was strip away the under floor insulation under the water heater location to see where I could safely drill through for the pan drain. Carried the insulation removal clear across to under the kitchen island where another of the soft spots is. You can clearly see that the floor will have to be replaced there. Got a bot of disappointment about the construction of the house. In my parent's house, there is two layers of plywood in the subfloor. This place only appears to have a single 3/4 inch sheet, and I didn't pay enough attention to notice if it was plywood or OSB. I would really prefer it if it had two, and it probably would have resulted in less work to repair. The do it right side of me says go back with double layer, unfortunately that would require tearing out all cabinets and walls to lay it in, I'm hoping that I won't have to remove any walls and maybe only one cabinet. I suppose I could just cut it around the walls, but I'd still have
uneven floors through the house. If I knew I were staying here I'd do it and eventually do the whole house (and new cabinets too), but was already thinking about moving closer to family and work and really gos serious about it since dad passed.
Anyhow, I got the pan drain installed, water heater set back into place and hooked back up. It's still going to leak, but now it'll drain outside and I've got hot water while I'm figuring things out. Next step getting more of the house cleaned up and rearranged so I can cut back the linoleum and see just how much I have to replace.
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