Lesson learned. Pay attention to that h2o!

Well I have a big rubbermaid tub to the left of my tank that holds the ATO water for my tank. Usually once or twice a week I run the rodi for about an hour to replenish what has been lost. (I'm sure you see where this is going...) well last night I did my filling, inserted the hose, turned on the water (it's a small unit that is only 20 gpd) and watched some TV.

Needless to say I fell asleep and awoke this morning to the sound of a trickle from my tank corner. I immediately thought the tank was leaking (oh no!) but no, it wa the water that I never turned off! As I went to asses the damage, about 2 feet away from the tub my foot hit water (ugh)- I then spent the next 30 minutes sopping up water, draining the rubbermaid tub and moving it to the kitchen, and generally kicking myself in the butt!

So after using all of my bath towels to sop up as much water as I could, I turned on the fans and went to work. From what I can tell/guess there was roughly 2-4 gallons on the floor. Just a random guess but not much more than that because my unit is so slow and the 20 gallon rubbermaid was only 1/4 full when I started filling.

Anyways, that is how my morning is going... How about you all? Lol

PS. Should I be doing any sort of damage control? I was about to call in sick but realized I would either sit at work while it dried or sit at home and watch it dry

 

as long as you were able to get the water socked up as best you could, you should be fine. I do know in an extreme case you might need to lift a corner of the carpet and have a fan blow under to help dry. IME you should be fine with just letting it dry.

I did the same thing with my RO/DI with a 30 gallon garbage can......lol not fun, but heck I did the same thing with my dish water for washing dishes. Turned it on to fill and walked away. You would think I'd learn.

 

I'm pretty sure the floor is concrete since it's a 4 story apartment building downtown, so I'm assuming I only need to worry about the carpets. I'm going to try to find a wet/dry vacuum after work! Whew, and I thought today was going to be relaxing!

 

yeah that will help, again I think as long as you absorb everything you can it will dry without a problem. Concrete should make it easier IMO, wood like at my house absorbed the water, then that had to dry as well.

hope your day gets better for ya...lol

 

Hey Roger, next time you do that have a 1 hour cooking timer set, that is what I do. When I forget I am making water, all of a sudden...ding, ding ding!

 

I have a 300gpd unit.... imagine the damage I could do.

I lived on the top apartment and let me RO/DI run twice..... never discovered by me :-(

Once there was a knock on the door and I jumped out of bed to go get it *SPLASH* Oops and a not happy apartment crew. They came to clean it up.

The second time I was in the middle of cleaning it up when my neighbour came saying his ceiling was dripping on his face.

Then I bought a 50 drum and a switch and left it on the balony. (Mind you I drilled holes through the walls to auto top several of my tanks). I did a lot of things to my apartment with this hobby!

 

After a couple of floods, starting water and leaving the house to get lunch, get a beer, then next thing you know I'm RUSHING back to the house to shut the water off, or even in the other room... well, I installed one of these:

Amazon.com: SpectraPure? Auto Shut Off Valve Float Kit for RO Systems: Kitchen & Dining

And haven't looked back since... I highly recommend it!! Even if you're not using it 24/7, it's still good to have one on those rubbermaid containers... it's easy, just drill the appropriate sized hole, install the "butterfly valve" in the RO lines properly, and voila! No more floods.

 

That's why I refill in the garage and use an egg timer to remind me to shut it off !

 

LOL...Sorry to hear Roger. I've been down that road many times and still haven't learned. HAHAHA Luckily I have mostly tile floors so it makes it a lot easier to clean it up. You may be able to rent a wet/dry shop vac from Home Depot. Not sure if they have them in tool rental but it's worth a shot.