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Cody Fousnough

Cody Fousnough

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First, and the most important, there is no drainage hole in the inside/front of our kitchen sink. It's single sink, not two separate ones next to each other, like we had before. I told my wife last week, "if we forget to shut off the water in that sink, you know what will happen", and it happened!

I was filling the sink with soapy water to clean the plastic food storage containers that were sitting there. We had to get another 4K DVR from our cable company for our tv to see if the tv picture was messing up due to the age of the tv (bought in 2008) or if the current 4K DVR we were using was bad. I was in the living room installing that and completely forgot the water was running in the sink. Only certain times at home do I wear my hearing aids and I didn't have them on. So, after I finished getting the 4K DVR hooked up, I took the other one to the kitchen so we could return it to the cable company store. As I walked into the kitchen, I could see the facet running and water all over the kitchen floor and headed for both the spare bathroom, laundry room and living room. i immediately shut the facet off, but water will still going over the edge of the sink onto the floor. So, I pulled the plug covering the garbage disposal and let the water out.

We don't have a long-handled sponge mop, because we have an iRobot mop. I was thinking, "what the heck am I going to use to get up all of this water?" Well, I used every bath towel we had! Without getting the other floors too wet, from the dripping of the bath towels, I rushed the towels out to the patio and laid them out to dry. We have a few small rugs in the kitchen and they were soaked also. Was able to get them out on the patio also.

So, while all of this was going on, my wife was on a "business call" with the company she works for. I didn't want to interrupt her, so I didn't say anything. When she was finally done with her "conference call", I had finished up wiping up most of the water. I told her what had happened. The entire next day, I spent washing and drying all of the towels and the small rugs were all dry from being outside.

We now have a very, very clean kitchen floor, clean bath towels and clean kitchen rugs. (LOL)
 
Cody Fousnough said:
First, and the most important, there is no drainage hole in the inside/front of our kitchen sink. It's single sink, not two separate ones next to each other, like we had before. I told my wife last week, "if we forget to shut off the water in that sink, you know what will happen", and it happened!

I was filling the sink with soapy water to clean the plastic food storage containers that were sitting there. We had to get another 4K DVR from our cable company for our tv to see if the tv picture was messing up due to the age of the tv (bought in 2008) or if the current 4K DVR we were using was bad. I was in the living room installing that and completely forgot the water was running in the sink. Only certain times at home do I wear my hearing aids and I didn't have them on. So, after I finished getting the 4K DVR hooked up, I took the other one to the kitchen so we could return it to the cable company store. As I walked into the kitchen, I could see the facet running and water all over the kitchen floor and headed for both the spare bathroom, laundry room and living room. i immediately shut the facet off, but water will still going over the edge of the sink onto the floor. So, I pulled the plug covering the garbage disposal and let the water out.

We don't have a long-handled sponge mop, because we have an iRobot mop. I was thinking, "what the heck am I going to use to get up all of this water?" Well, I used every bath towel we had! Without getting the other floors too wet, from the dripping of the bath towels, I rushed the towels out to the patio and laid them out to dry. We have a few small rugs in the kitchen and they were soaked also. Was able to get them out on the patio also.

So, while all of this was going on, my wife was on a "business call" with the company she works for. I didn't want to interrupt her, so I didn't say anything. When she was finally done with her "conference call", I had finished up wiping up most of the water. I told her what had happened. The entire next day, I spent washing and drying all of the towels and the small rugs were all dry from being outside.

We now have a very, very clean kitchen floor, clean bath towels and clean kitchen rugs. (LOL)
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You might want to run a dehumidifier for a while in the kitchen to take care of dampness under the floor coverings. If water got under and into the woodwork, you might be in for mold and loss of your security deposit. Just a thought.
 
John Brunner said:
I've never seen overflow holes in a kitchen sink. I've seen them in bathroom sinks, and I assume that's because they are small and might fill up fast if left unattended. Bathtubs have them, too.

I wonder if the tenants below you noticed.
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Now that you mention it - mine does not have one. Rules here are check water check gas before you leave the kitchen side of the island. I hope there will be no permanent damage.
 
Marie Miller said:
Now that you mention it - mine does not have one. Rules here are check water check gas before you leave the kitchen side of the island. I hope there will be no permanent damage.
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I have never seen a kitchen sink with overflow holes. I suspect it would be too heavy (a bowl within a bowl.)

The only thing I've tended to forget is when I use my cast iron skillet for something that has pulled away the seasoning, I'll put oil in the skillet and turn on the heat. Then I go watch TV. So now I just set a timer.
 
The floor and rugs are fine. Guess I got to the water before it could damage anything.

And, believe it or not, and we didn't know this: There is no light fixtures in either one of the bedrooms. Light switches, but no lights. We bought two floor lamps, one for each bedroom. Both closets are pretty small. And, on top of that, there isn't a medicine cabinet in either bathroom! Two big mirrors and lights over the mirrors, but no medicine cabinets. My wife told me "If I would've known about these things, we may not have rented here." However, what is very, very nice about this apartment is, there is plenty of wall space for our pictures. Unlike our last apartment we rented here, on the other end of the city, this apartment doesn't have a fireplace. Our other apartment had a gas fireplace and, believe it or not, our apartment in Jacksonville, Florida, had a woodburning fireplace. But that apartment was a "bungalow", meaning it was an apartment at the end of the building and nobody lived above us. There were only four "bungalows" in the complex. The "bungalow" was like living in a 1-story lake cottage.

Our plans are to buy an electric fireplace, on Amazon, to plug into the wall in our living room.
 
I have an electric fireplace, an old one with the rotating foil to make the flames, that reflect off its back mirror. More authentic looking with the glowing ambers than the new digital ones. I have it on 24/7 year around.

@Cody Fousnough Too bad you can't find a bungalow apt in Colorado. We have a few complexes here that have them and with a garage between the apt complex and bungalow. I think that is as close to apt living as I could tolerate.
 
Townhouse apartments are nice too, with an upstairs and a downstairs, and no one above or below you, but they tend to be on the expensive side. I was paying over $1,300 a month in Anaheim way back in the early 1980s. When I moved to the Rio Grande Valley of Texas, where there are at least two PRCA Rodeos, by the way, I found that I could rent a two-bedroom house for $300 a month.
 
Ken Anderson said:
Townhouse apartments are nice too, with an upstairs and a downstairs, and no one above or below you, but they tend to be on the expensive side. I was paying over $1,300 a month in Anaheim way back in the early 1980s. When I moved to the Rio Grande Valley of Texas, where there are at least two PRCA Rodeos, by the way, I found that I could rent a two-bedroom house for $300 a month.
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Well, if you are trying to entice Cody to move to the Rio Grande Valley, with 2 PRCA rodeos, you must have missed his old post about a big no to Texas. I think there is entirely way to much real cowboy stuff happening down there, same as here and real life ranching and bunk house living isn't Cody's thing. I have to agree that watching Rodeo on the Cowboy channel is less dusty, noisy, hot, and one doesn't see all the crowd that may force more rodeos into dress codes and conduct rules, like the Houston rodeo had to impose.
 
Before the last two post get reported and the posters get their hands slapped, I am reminding myself this thread is about flooding, so I will zip any more comments about rodeo.
 
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