Friday evening my wife called me and said that she heard water spraying under the house.

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I hurried home to find that rats had chewed through the PEX pipe feeding water to the bathroom sink.
I had a much longer post ready when the ISP crashed and poop occured.

 

I guess they wanted their own shower! Sounds like it is target practice time to rid the neighborhood of some varmints!

 

I had created a post about the work I did and PROBLEMS WITH THE HOUSE that I found.
I had spent 40 minutes or more and lost it all.
I'm too tired to recreate it all right now. I spent 5 hours (10pm to 3am) on the road last night picking up a broke down vehicle 125 miles from home. That was after spending 10 hours Saturday and I spent another 8 today fixing the water problem and the other things I found that were F---ed up.

 

Looks like a fairly new house. I know it won't cover rat damage but did it come with a builder's warranty to cover the other oops?

 

It is a Mississippi Cottage (modular home) that I was issued to replace the FEMA Travel Trailer we received as shelter after Katrina.
MEMA - Mississippi Emergency Management Agency
We are glad to have got it.
I had to fight hard with the system for it.


I qualified to buy it from the state at a greatly reduced price.
I've yet to find anyone who got one who paid more than me though.
Some people got one free.

It was manufactured by Lexington Homes.
They were throwing them together as fast as they could after the storm.
728sq feet.

As for a warranty I seriously doubt it.
I'll make some calls in the coming weeks but I won't hold my breath.

I had it placed on the back of our lot so if (and that's a big IF) I build a new home I can use it as a Mother-in-
law cottage.



MEMA - Mississippi Emergency Management Agency

The Mississippi Alternative Housing Program is (was) funded by a $281 million federal grant and is administered by the Mississippi Emergency Management Agency. The purpose of the program is (was) to develop and produce a safer and more comfortable temporary housing unit for use after a disaster. The program will also address additional goals such as new approaches to management of units and the option of allowing units to go from temporary to permanent. At the peak occupancy period, over 2900 cottages were occupied. Current goals are:

Permanently install and transfer ownership to individuals an average of 200 cottages per month beginning in September 2009 through January 2010. A cumulative goal of 1200 cottages occupied on individual sites in the six coastal counties by May 30, 2010.
Demobilize all cottages that are not to be sold not later than December 31, 2009.
Dispose of all cottages at transition sites by May 30, 2010.

 

Yup, I just had about an 8' section of my water main that runs under my foundation that was replaced with PEX piping. I was hearing a noise of running water in a wall the separates my two bathrooms and decided to crawl under my home and check it out. I followed the noise to the front corner or my yard. I checked the meter and noticed one of the needles was spinning which explained the water build-up in the flower bed. I shut the water off and dug down about 3' or so and found the copper piping that had a split in the top spurting water, not sure how the split came to be. The leak was fixed with PEX pipe and new Shark Bite fittings that should be better than the thin copper piping buried underground. I guess no plastic piping is rat proof when chewed through.


OJ

 

The rats had also got another pipe. It was a tinny-tiny pin hole.
When my daughter took a shower we found that some of the water in the insulation had been coming from the trap under the tub as there were two LARGE holes chewed through the tubs P-trap.

There were problems with the sewer line draining the washer, bathroom sink and toilet as it was lower at the far end than the end where it dropped to the main line. Therefore the water was trapped against a uphill slope that was higher than the 2" drain pipe from the washer.

The good thing about the mis-sloped drain was that it created a sewer gas block with the standing water.
Had the line been sloped correctly the sewer gas would have been able to back up through the washer drain pipe because there was no P-trap in it.