Last night when I went to clean up the kitchen after dinner around 5:45 my water pressure was almost nothing. When I turned the faucet to hot I had no water. I tried the bathroom sink and had off and on water.
I went downstairs to investigate and found roughly an inch of water running from the bottom of the stairs in the finished area over to the first bookcase and about a third of the floor in the unfinished area.
I texted my plumber who called a 24 hour service he uses to come out. I turned off the breaker to the water pump and the water heater. The guy finally showed up from another job around 8:30. By then most of the water had gone down the drain in the floor of the unfinished area. The finished area was almost dry.
When he turned the water valve back on water started pouring out from the baseboard in the finished area. The only way to find the leak was to cut holes in the wall until he found which pipe fittings had blown based on where the water was coming out under the baseboard.
He finished replacing fittings and left around 9:30. I finished cleaning up the kitchen and started running a load of sopping wet towels. Once they were in the dryer around 10:30 I went to bed to read and settled down.
I will wait to fix the wall until my plumber comes to look to see if we need to replace any more fittings. Otherwise, there was no water damage. The insulation is still hanging out of the wall to dry.
I spent today at the bookstore. Just could not deal with the cleanup of wall board and dust.