The importance of Drains.

Dear People Who Built Our House (Oh man if I knew who these people are the angry letters they would receive from me!),

Why? Why on God's Green EARTH would you build a LAUNDRY room (you know, the room with the washer=water, shower=water, and sink=water) withOUT a DRAIN!!? WHY? WHY? WHY?

Our washing machine has worked perfectly, without a problem (except that one weird incident where it quit working, we got a part to fix it, that didn't work, put the old part back in and magically it started working again) for TWO years, two years of working great. Like I do many days, I started a load of laundry, then Dietrich, the dogs, and myself headed out for a lovely walk in the rain. We get back and I leave everyone in the garage so I can go inside and get a towel to dry off the dogs. I walk in to step in a huge puddle of water, I am certain bad words were said. I called Bryce "you are not gonna wanna here this but the washing machine emptied itself all over the house." He told me to remove the filter and I started using the shop vac to clean up. Thank goodness Dietrich was accommodating and watched from his stroller in the garage. I was able to finally get the water up off the tile in the hall and the laundry room. Dietrich and the dogs could come in the house. My feet and pants were soaking wet. Then I started vacuuming the water out of the carpet, of course the water got on to the new carpet in the basement bedroom, the carpet at the bottom of the stairs and into the living room (FAR into the living room), but NO water on the ugly blue carpet in the blue room (of course). So I vacuumed and vacuumed, Dietrich crawled around also getting soaking wet on the carpet (he apparently thought that was fun) and then we started the fans.

This huge mess could have easily been avoided (yes, fine, don't leave the house when doing laundry, but I probably wouldn't have noticed the water until I went to get the laundry anyway) PUT in a DRAIN! If you are building or remodeling your laundry room, put in a drain, it will save you heartache and possible replacement of carpet (good thing the carpet in the living room is terrible and stained anyway). Today while I continued to complain about the lack of drain to my mom she pointed out that there may be a drain, but someone tiled over it when they remodeled. If that is the case, oh how that makes my blood boil!!! Do NOT do something so stupid! Oh I can't even take it, I'm going to bed (and hoping that the carpet is dry enough that we don't have to rip any up).