It's Raining.......Inside the Garage!

So on Tuesday night last week, I came home from work very late because I was hanging out with friends in Irving until about 10pm.  When I drove into the garage, I saw that the floor was wet with standing water in one area......it was NOT raining that day.......

I jumped out of the car and looked up.  Sure enough, it was dripping from the soggy sheetrock ceiling.......I ran upstairs to my master bathroom that sits directly over this area of the garage.  Turns out my toilet tank was leaking and the water was running between the tile and the wall/trim and leaking through to the garage below.  UUGGGGGHHHHHH!

Oh, and when I passed through the kitchen, I also noticed that both of my dogs were covered in clay mud from digging in the backyard all day.  Beautiful, just beautiful. 

So at 11pm, I was emptying out a toilet tank with plastic cups and towels, mopping up a wet floor and poking holes in soggy drywall in the garage to get air flow in there to prevent mold.  I put fans in garage pointed at the ceiling and up in the bathroom as well.

Then I had to give my two muddy dogs baths and after that, figure out who I was going to call to fix this mess!  Needless to say, I didn't get to bed until after 1a.m.  It was a horrible night!

But alas, I did find a handyman to come out and tear out the damaged sheetrock in the garage and replace my toilet upstairs.  The subfloor has been airing out all week, so now I just need to have him come back to put up a new sheetrock ceiling in the garage and then all will be well in the world again.  What a pain in the rear!!

Anyway, in true Lauri fashion, I took pictures!

Here is what your toilet looks like underneath the subfloor of your bathroom, in case you were curious.......

Here's the drain from the toilet and then the pipe that runs over to the 2 sinks in my master bathroom (along with some wiring and insulation).

Lots of sheetrock taken down.  Oh well - out with the old, in with the new, right??

And upstairs, here is my brand new Kohler toilet!  I didn't realize that toilets were so inexpensive....This one was only $149 - that surprised me for whatever reason.

At any rate, I hope by replacing it rather than repairing it, that I won't have to come home to this kind of mess again!!