30 Dumb, Dangerous, And Downright Bizarre Things People Found After Moving In To Their New House

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“When I first moved into the house, the city tried to saddle me with a water bill for over $1,200 from the previous owners. I laughed and said no chance in Hell as that sounded like they let months go by with it being delinquent since my brother’s bill in a similar house two streets over is roughly $50/month. When I noticed the hot water pressure seemed off, I went down to the hot water tank to investigate. There was a strange splitter right about where the brass line was feeding off from the top of the tank, and the valve was closed in the second direction.”

“I turned it so the valve was fully opened and heard what sounded like the faintest waterfall coming from the other room in the basement.

Went to the other room, and there was a meter in the corner that they had built an enclosure around since it was a bit of an eyesore.

Took the cover off and looked. I couldn’t see any water spewing out, but I did see some water dripping from behind and above the enclosure. The waterfall also sounded louder here.

Grabbed my cable scope with a camera at the end and fed it up into the small opening behind and above the meter, and saw water spewing out of something like when you put your finger over the tip of a house.

Went and shut the valve off, grabbed a hammer and sawzall to cut open the chunk of wall there, and was shocked.

Apparently, the laundry room used to be in this room, hence the meter and the two different clean outs, but the former owner converted it into a bedroom, and they moved the water heater and gas lines into the other room.

Guess they couldn’t find a cap or were too lazy to completely remove the wall to remove or cap the old water line, so they just twisted the end over a handful of times like a tube of toothpaste and then installed the half assed splitter on top of the water heater.

I guess that is the culprit that caused the $1,200 water bill, as it was probably still leaking up until I found it.”

—EnigmaGuy