RO/DI Overflow!

[Tyler White]

After about a year in the hobby and the thought of "EHH it wont happen to me" i finally overflowed my brute trashcan of RO/DI this morning im going to assume and had i dont know how many gallons of water in the floor that wrapped around one wall of my kitchen. Its a manufactured home (Trailer) so the walls are super absorbent and logged those to the point water was standing in the corners of the room. I got all the water up out of the floor and dry but the walls are still dark from being wet.

If anyone else has dealt with this before my main concern/ question is what should i do going forward? I sprayed a bleach type cleaner i had lying around to inhibit mold around the wet portions of wall and have a couple fans i had lying around to help dry everything up. Is there any commercial products i can get at Lowes to help this process?

Thanks for your help!!!

 

[Jay Z]

You could run a dehumidifier also. Should be dry in 1-3 days. I flood my house out once or twice a year. Lol.

 

[EmdeReef]

Dehumidifier, fans, watch for mold and bleach...

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[Tyler White]

Dehumidifier, fans, watch for mold and bleach...

To prevent it from happening going forward, consider one of these:

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LOL the marriage saver!

Definitely going to get one come payday. I sure have enough rodi to last me that long now ;Playful

 

[Tyler White]

You could run a dehumidifier also. Should be dry in 1-3 days. I flood my house out once or twice a year. Lol.

Ill have to go see if i can pick one up. ..... and maybe an extra fan...

 

[Zwogle]

We have all been there, it sucks, fans and dehumidifiers... a simple cheap solution is a float valve installed near the top of the trash can.

 

[jurgenph]

we should get a "flooded my room" badge

we've all done it, or eventually will do it.

i now fill my rodi containers in the garage, so it's not too bad when it overflows.
my first big one was in a carpeted room... i had to run a big fan for MANY days to dry that out...

i'm not sure how long it took to completely dry UNDER the stand of my 90 at the time
there's a couch in that spot now.


J.

 

[motortrendz]

It happens. We've all done it... welcome to the club. I'd dry it best you can open some windows and run a fan. The quicker it dries the better off you'll be. Also not sure if this is a fact or not but something I've witnessed personally... when I've spilled ro/di and it's gotten behind sheetrock I never had any mold issues. Regular water I've had issues almost right away. Maybe its luck or maybe bc the water is so stripped of nutrients that it slows mold down. I dont know. Just something I've noticed.
Dry what you can air it out and I think you'll be fine.

 

[Tyler White]

Thats the worst of it. It goes under the cabinet and into the stove area and stops before it gets to the carpet on the other side.

 

[Qasimja]

it happens i flooded my garage last weekend making rodi water the waste line somehow worked its way out of the drain ran for almost an hour before i found it lol im just glad it was in the garage i was able to just mop the water out

 

[JustinSmi86]

Overflowed mine in laundry room yesterday... dang naps on the couch. Welcome to the club!

 

[Darth.Daddy12]

After about a year in the hobby and the thought of "EHH it wont happen to me" i finally overflowed my brute trashcan of RO/DI this morning im going to assume and had i dont know how many gallons of water in the floor that wrapped around one wall of my kitchen. Its a manufactured home (Trailer) so the walls are super absorbent and logged those to the point water was standing in the corners of the room. I got all the water up out of the floor and dry but the walls are still dark from being wet.

If anyone else has dealt with this before my main concern/ question is what should i do going forward? I sprayed a bleach type cleaner i had lying around to inhibit mold around the wet portions of wall and have a couple fans i had lying around to help dry everything up. Is there any commercial products i can get at Lowes to help this process?

Thanks for your help!!!

Check with insurance provider. Most times everything regulating our hobby is covered outside live stock and even then sometime is. In a regular concrete slab studded wall house I wouldn’t be over concerned as a brief soaking isn’t the end of the world other then carpet padding needing to be replaced or some buckling of wood flooring. Worst case cutting out and replacing bottoms few inches of sheet rock.

In a manufactured home or second floor of a normal home I’d be wanting to strip it down and have everything properly replaced. If everything was wet.. then dehumidifier for a while to dry out may be fine.. if there was any puddling indicating high and low spot then there is structural concerns and I’d be looking to pay my deductible and have as much relaxed as I could get covered.
FYI I deal with rotted homes for a living and my wife is in home insurance specializing in flood policy’s as we live in Florida and deal with storms all the time. Problem with manufactured home is they use a log of thinner subflooring and lot of press board materials.. there is no drying that out it has to be replaced.

 

[Tyler White]

Check with insurance provider. Most times everything regulating our hobby is covered outside live stock and even then sometime is. In a regular concrete slab studded wall house I wouldn’t be over concerned as a brief soaking isn’t the end of the world other then carpet padding needing to be replaced or some buckling of wood flooring. Worst case cutting out and replacing bottoms few inches of sheet rock.

In a manufactured home or second floor of a normal home I’d be wanting to strip it down and have everything properly replaced. If everything was wet.. then dehumidifier for a while to dry out may be fine.. if there was any puddling indicating high and low spot then there is structural concerns and I’d be looking to pay my deductible and have as much relaxed as I could get covered.
FYI I deal with rotted homes for a living and my wife is in home insurance specializing in flood policy’s as we live in Florida and deal with storms all the time. Problem with manufactured home is they use a log of thinner subflooring and lot of press board materials.. there is no drying that out it has to be replaced.

Everything water wise wanted to go toward that wall im going to assume cause of the leveling process these things go through when they get older. Its about two years old. Im going to look into the flooring they use and check in on that aspect of this mess

 

[Darth.Daddy12]

Everything water wise wanted to go toward that wall im going to assume cause of the leveling process these things go through when they get older. Its about two years old. Im going to look into the flooring they use and check in on that aspect of this mess

A lot of modular homes like to use some form of MDF for sub floor and even walls in place of sheet rock sometimes. Much of the cheaper trims like baseboards will likely be mdf not wood. anything that’s thicker then 1/2” and real wood wouldn’t be an issue with short exposure to water. Same thing happens when as a home is being built as there is ventilation to dry it out. MDF soaks water like a sponge and retains if for long periods creating both mold and degrading the strength between the fibers glued together. The most important thing refusing walls is to open them up a little with holes top and bottom in different areas and run fans and dehumidifier to suck out the moisture. The air flow will dry out everything normally. Don’t get to carried away with dehumidifier as you can suck out too much moisture to fast. If using one set it to 50-75% drying wood too fast is what causes it to warp. Do your evaluations but look into your insurance for sure and don’t get to carried away. A dog water cleanup company would be worth a call to evaluate potential risks.

Being in humid climate makes this a bigger issue then dryer ones. I’ve seen wood framed stucco houses that are two years old have completely rotted walls just from the moisture of the stucco introduced. At same time 100 year old houses which don’t have proper vapor barrier or even used caulking and the wood in the walls looks as if it was built yesterday simply cause the house can breath. Moisture in a house always goes one of two extremes. Rotted everything in short term or nothing ever.. there just isn’t a middle road and it’s mostly a product of trying to be super energy efficient which limits how the hone can breath.

 

[Dom]

After about a year in the hobby and the thought of "EHH it wont happen to me" i finally overflowed my brute trashcan of RO/DI this morning im going to assume and had i dont know how many gallons of water in the floor that wrapped around one wall of my kitchen. Its a manufactured home (Trailer) so the walls are super absorbent and logged those to the point water was standing in the corners of the room. I got all the water up out of the floor and dry but the walls are still dark from being wet.

If anyone else has dealt with this before my main concern/ question is what should i do going forward? I sprayed a bleach type cleaner i had lying around to inhibit mold around the wet portions of wall and have a couple fans i had lying around to help dry everything up. Is there any commercial products i can get at Lowes to help this process?

Thanks for your help!!!

Float valve connected to incoming RODI water will solve your problem... as long as it is installed and working properly.

 

[Sisterlimonpot]

Float valve connected to incoming RODI water will solve your problem... as long as it is installed and working properly.

Agreed. that's all you need. although they nailed the marketing on "the marriage saver" pandering to a particular audience, a float valve will shut off your rodi unit.