Lordie

Drill rig drills one of 3 wells for ground source heat in 2008 at our house.


Our downstairs wall has sprouted a leak. Not only a leak - it's spurting according to Pablo the Poolboy, who has drained some 50 gallons down the drain the the furnace room tonight, before calling me to report the bad news.

It seems the tons of ice and snow sitting in our back yard, now melting, along with the rain has made for a fountain in our furnace room. And not a pretty fountain one tosses coins into. I suggested Paul put his finger in it. that he put on his engineer brain and come up with something to capture the spray. He'll prolly pile towels under it.

We installed ground source heat in 2008. In order to install the system they have to poke a hole through the wall of the furnace room. Since then Paul has notice wetness in the furnace room a couple times, but we (by we I mean he because I don't do the basement unless I really have to) couldn't ever figure out where it came from.

He says the gusher is 6 inches above the pipe coming into the house. They must have cracked the wall when the punched the hole. Kirby to the rescue - I hope. Glen the plumber who put in the system is going to call Kirby Berry a wall guy to look at the leak tomorrow. We're hoping he can come up with a way to plug that damn thing!

We've known Kirby Berry a long time. He fixed the wall at our old house at 201 East Prairie. Franklin Kinkade - the like 90 year old guy whose crew did the original work can't help in this case. He's a drilling guy, not a wall-fixing guy.

There are going to be a lotta wet basements this spring!