Former Homestead

Out by the marina where we used to live. We stopped by on our way out of town on 30. Matt is sporting some sunglasses we found in our van. If they're yours, let us know and we'll return them!

We had an adventure before we left. Well, with last month's hot water heater 'exploding' experience, we decided to turn off our water before we left town. Heads up, this is always a good idea. My grandparents in SC had their downstairs partially flooded once when they were gone for a few days to the beach. Some waterhose on the washing machine malfunctioned. Matt's parents had a similar experience with a hot water heater once that left behind some damage. We were blessed in that I was home, but still a lot of damage can happen in 20 minutes. We had 2 inches in the garage and 1 inch in our front room. It was funny (in retrospect) to see Matt pulling up at the front of our hose and kind of panicking when he saw water coming out our front door. He kept running around saying, 'where do you turn the water off?'

So, learn from us, turn off your water before you leave for vacation and know how to turn off the water supply to your house. (Matt ended up turning off the supply to the hot water heater. We now know that we would have to turn off the water in front of our house by the street. But you need a special 'key' and something like a wrench to turn it with. We now have a key/turner all in one from Home Depot. LEARN FROM US!

Oh, our adventure included Matt getting REALLY dirty from turning off the water when we were leaving. He had to go back and turn on the water so he could clean up. And then turn it off again.

Oh, the plumber told us to always turn off the breaker to the hot water heater BEFORE you turn off the water supply. Otherwise, you might have your hot water heater heating when there is no water in it and that is REALLY a bad idea for some reason or another!