More Rhode Island woes

A couple of days ago, Linda pointed out a puddle of water on the floor next to the washing machine in the basement. I wondered whether it was from the washer, but the next morning, I went downstairs to inspect and found water dripping off of pipes and the air conditioning insulation above the washer, so that wasn’t the answer. Yesterday, the maintenance guy came in to diagnose the problem and eventually (after punching out a bunch of dry wall in the dining room) found a long crack in the cast iron pipe leading down from the second floor. Long story short, we’ll have to wait a week until someone can come in to repair this. Meanwhile, we still use the upstairs shower, because the downstairs shower stall is cracked and needs to be replaced. Add to that a dripping valve that feeds the hot water tank and SharkBite push fit connectors all over the place that need to be replaced with soldered connections and we have a plumbing nightmare on our hands.

In the meantime, we have a fan trained on the exposed pipe in the living room to keep the adjacent dry wall dry and prevent mold, as well as a newly purchased dehumidifier in the basement, also to forestall mold. Ugh.