Hard lesson learned!

[Ivan Burley]

Well as I recently posted I purchased my first property not to long ago. I have completed all of the renovations and was ready to find tenants. All of the sudden Nashville is hit with the blistering cold that affected much of the country last week. Thinking that I would have to pay a deposit I opted to not have the utilities turn on. Bad idea!

During my renovations I have been using my generator for power. With no heat and drastic weather changes of course my copper pipes burst. I thought it would be focused in one area of the bathroom but as we found one burst there'd be another. We followed it all the way into the wall. We had to slide the bathtub out of the way and cut open the very same drywall that I recently had hung. On top of that we will have to remove the water heater that was recently installed to get behind it and open up even more new drywall.

I guess I learned the hard way that first thing first, have all utilities turned on. Luckily the water was turned off when the pipes burst. When we turned the water on to fill the new (scratch and dent) water heater we noticed the problem. I'm no plumber so I'll be paying for these services.

I know it's a little late but any advice would be greatly appreciated. We are replacing the copper with pex piping in all of the trouble areas, and shark bites are a blessing.