I was cleaning up my home office / tank room and moved a recliner to clean under it. I had forgotten that I had 2 5 gallon buckets of saltwater ready for a water change sitting behind it. I moved the chair and splash one of the buckets fell over. It is amazing how much more 5 gallons on the carpet floor looks like compared to in the bucket... After 15 towels and a couple of fans I think I limited the damage. My office is on the 2nd floor with the dining room below but so far no signs of the water dump on the dining room ceiling...
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My wife would never let me hear the end of that one!!
We have hardwood floors and the hose came out of the shower while I was doing a water change-I put about 7-8 gallons on the floor:yuk:it went thru the floor onto Hal's Shopsmith, tools, and ruined a few boxed of nails. I'm really lucky he is sooo easy going and understanding. 
My favorite was when my overflow box on my first tank stopped up and the tank overflowed ONTO my wife's head while her nose was pressed up to the tank. The good news was it was like having a leak detector. I <span style="color: red">KNEW</span> about it immediately!!!!
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Cleaning up water is never fun. Accidents happen- especially when a friend of yours( and an arc member) is carrying plastic Jugs into a business and the handle breaks off the jug. Salt water all over a nice engineered hardwood floor. Yayyyyyy! Let's see how fast we can clean this up. 
I wish I could say that is the only time I've seen water on the floor, but that would be a lie.
I wish I could say that is the only time I've seen water on the floor, but that would be a lie.
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I had 15 gallons dump on my new laminate flooring last month. Power went out and i had just put it back together from putting the flooring in and had the spray bar to low in the tank. Valuable lesson learned.
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A while back, I went to go fill up on RO/DI water and was in a rush, didn't notice that that the waste water tube had gotten disconnected... Ran it for 12 hrs before I checked on it, at least 45 gallons on the floor before I stopped counting. On a good note, the better half never found out- I love wet-Dry Vacs!
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Ripped Tide;914653 wrote: Cleaning up water is never fun. Accidents happen- especially when a friend of yours( and an arc member) is carrying plastic Jugs into a business and the handle breaks off the jug. Salt water all over a nice engineered hardwood floor. Yayyyyyy! Let's see how fast we can clean this up.
I wish I could say that is the only time I've seen water on the floor, but that would be a lie.
It was your crappy jug that broke....lol
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I was doing a water change pumping saltwater out of my 32 gal brute trash can with a powerhead then had to run upstairs for a second so I unplugged the powerhead leaving the hose in the 5 gallon bucket I Big mistake!!!!! Quickly ordered a 25 foot extension hose to add to my python hoses and a bigger pump no more lugging buckets upstairs and less watet spills
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Suuuuuuure Heath! Hehe. It was the jug's fault. I actually had another one break at that same shop about2 weeks ago. Same situation. The handle pulled right of the crappy jug. I was more lucky than you. The jug fell standing straight up and only a little water got on the carpet
thats a bummer, when I was doing my tank upgrade I placed two 5 gallon buckets on a coffee table, one was full of wet sand and one with water. Let's just say the wife was pissed because the table broke and splash... Cost me a new table but luckily the floors were fine. They should start building houses with reef areas or drains lol that would be awesome.
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Reading all of this makes me glad that my tank is in the basement on a tile floor, with a drain in the floor. I make a mess all the time and squeeegee it up.
Heh, you guys and gals with single and double-digit gallon spills... kid stuff
You know it's going to be a long day, when, on a Sunday morning, you stop at the gas station outside the shop, on your way to get some groceries, and glance over and see water pouring out the front door of the shop.
Then you drive around back and see water pouring out the BACK door of the shop too...
200 gallons makes one HECK of a mess. No, it wasn't on hardwood...
Another time I had seepage into the store next door (back when there was a video store next door)... luckily they were nice about it and even helped me clean it up - in their store and mine.
Y'all don't know from spillage!
Jenn
You know it's going to be a long day, when, on a Sunday morning, you stop at the gas station outside the shop, on your way to get some groceries, and glance over and see water pouring out the front door of the shop.
Then you drive around back and see water pouring out the BACK door of the shop too...
200 gallons makes one HECK of a mess. No, it wasn't on hardwood...
Another time I had seepage into the store next door (back when there was a video store next door)... luckily they were nice about it and even helped me clean it up - in their store and mine.
Y'all don't know from spillage!
Jenn
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