Originally Posted by Jim's Gem

Good morning everyone. thank you for your replies.
We shut off all water to the house overnight. DH turned it on long enough for us to get our showers in this morning and then shut it off again.
I am back at work, no plumber yet.

We did get through to him, should be coming by sometime this morning, I hope. I have my adult daughter heading over to the house to "hang" out.

I washed about 60 yards of fabric. Some of it has some stains from the water. Others, that were older have some fading in the folds. I set aside a stack of "damaged" fabric. It is still useable, just not as large pieces.

I have not emptied the rest of the cabinets, but maybe I should look at doing that when I get home later this afternoon. Nothing else in them is wet, as far as I can tell. I did leave them open to air dry if there is any moisture.

This is not a basement, this is just a family room on the first floor of the house. There is only empty attic above the room so the pipe is fairly easy to access. This water is not from the rain but from a pipe that has (another) pin-hole prick in it. We will probably have the plumber replace the entire length of the pipe, as this is the 3rd leak from it. We may need to look into haveing the pipes coated with a silicone type coating. The quote we got on that 2 3/4 years ago was about $5,000. I wonder if it is any less now!