Well, yesterday afternoon my son calls me in a panic because there’s water dripping from the ceiling of our family room. He shuts off the water to the house for me, and this morning, after a lot of puzzling about, the plumber finds the pinhole leak in the hot water line that caused it.
I’ll need a guy to fix the damp drywall and the hole they had to cut out to fix it, but overall it could have been much worse. The leak was brand new, stopped quickly, no mold issues, and the repairs, while not cheap, are well under my deductible for my insurance - before I saw the damage I was afraid I might have to cough up the whole $5200 deductible. Instead, the total should be less than $1500 I think.
So grateful my son noticed it and it didn’t happen in the evening, when it might have gone unnoticed until morning.
