Trainman2001 posted:And now for something completely different...
Last week our Kenmore Elite dishwasher's control panel (purchased in 2011) ceased working... dead as a doornail. We went to Lowe's on Saturday and bought a new GE dishwasher, but will be delivered in about 2 weeks. Then on Sunday, I bumped the Kenmore and the "Cancel" button lit up. All the buttons worked! So... I stopped hand washing dishes and we did a load in the machine. Then yesterday, when I walked by the dishwasher to the sink the floor felt funny. My shoe caught on the hardwood. When I looked I saw (with horror) that the floor boards were cupping leading out from the dishwasher. The floor had gotten wet underneath.
Then I went down to the train room. The dishwasher sits directly over the town. Because I had put Tyvek on the ceiling to keep out the dust and brighten the place up, no water had hit the layout, BUT, there was a significant bulge sitting right over the center of town that was obviously holding water. And what water that did escape (the floor had clearly gotten wet) had come down directly over the gap at the back between the three bridges and not a drop had hit the layout. WHAT LUCK!
The plumbers came today, checked it out and sure enough, the dishwasher was leaking directly from the motor housing. The assumption is that the leak caused the electronic problems, and not the the other way around. When the buttons went back on we were second-guessing ourselves about buying the new one, but after the plumbers left we realized that we probably should have seen this leak before.
I put cardboard Teepees over any tall object that could get broken from the drop cloths. I chose the thinnest, biggest and cheapest they had at the hardware store.
I used a big Rubbermade tub to catch the water. Also luckily, there were big flat, non-built areas in town that were under the water "blister". We perforated the Tyvek with an Xacto knife and the water drained in a controlled manner.
Ironically, if we had gone to the expense of finishing the basement and putting in a dropped ceiling, it would have been much worse, since the dropped ceiling tiles would have disintegrated and collapsed right onto those delicate and irreplaceable buildings.
Whew! Don't like when this stuff happens. Of course, living in Louisville and not getting flooded or a wet basement, I really can't complain.
Myles,
Consider yourself VERY VERY lucky.
