O man guyz, handyman super hero story coming!
I'm spending a lovely monday morning bbs'n on the couch with lady when my doorbell rings. It's my neighbor from across the street who I have never met, she is a pleasant maybe 50 year old woman named Evette who started renting the house a couple months ago.
She is a little distraught and tells me her pipes have burst and there is water everywhere, can I help?!? Duh, handyman super hero ben ji to the rescue.
This is all she can tell me
-Has been out of town and heat stopped working.
- Pipes have burst
- Cant get ahold of landlord cell phone.
- When she moved in landlord said water shutoff was in the front corner of her yard (lift off a metal plate to turn it off)
The only problem is her yard has not been raked all year, I come back over with a rake and spend around 15 minutes raking her yard but cant find the plate. I know that in my house the water turnoff is in the basement and her house is similar so I tell he I'll go down there to check it out....only problem is she doesn't have a basement....just a crawl space....with about 2 inches of water on the floor and more pouring down from the ceiling.
I change into some boots and tell her to turn off all breakers(water pouring over electrical wires) then head down to the crawl space. I spend about 30 minutes crawling around down there with a flashlight but cant find anything resembling a shutoff.
I come back out and tell her to try landlord again, no answer, phone off. She says he works at cerner so I have her call cerner and ask for him....about 10 minutes later we get him on the phone and he tells me exactly where the water shutoff is, turns out it is in the front yard but in a different area.
I can't get it turned off with my bare hands so I run across the street and grab some pliers to really get into it, BOOM! Water shut off, lovely Evette is ecstatic and landlord guys thanks me and says he is on his way.