It began a week or two ago, with a little wet spot on the carpet. This was not particularly baffling; I figured the boys might have just taken a wee. I cleaned it up, thinking that was the end.
But I could not foresee that this was just the beginning of my conflict with the carpet.
Over the next few days, the wet spot did not only linger...it grew. I threw a towel over it and thought it weird, but nothing to be concerned about.
A few weeks later and I have a problem. The wet spot has spread in a direct path to the couch. I've used, like, eight different puppy pads face-down to soak it up. It kind of smells like pee, but I don't know that the boys could make something this huge, given that they aren't prone to weeing in the house in the first place.
It has a sort of faint ammonia smell and a coppery-yellow tinge to it. My landlord/handiman came by and took a look at it today and his words were: "Holy shit."
We can't tell where it's coming from. I'm on the first floor of a two-floor building, so I don't think it could be leaking, and I would have noticed some kind of water damage on the ceiling. Assuming the dogs haven't been going tremendous amounts of wee behind my back, this could only mean that it's coming up from the floor somehow.
So, what do you think it is? A body buried under the cement? A burst pipe? What a mystery!
This is a diagram of the spot. As you can see, it seems primarily concerned with advancing towards the couch, leaving the bedroom area alone.
The Fro
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Unfortunately, it appears we are cut off from the bat
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Maybe the bac Snoota fucked around with this message on 05-03-2006 at 02:32 AM.
kro
om can out flank the wetspot and save the couch!
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