random_ryan
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you mean a carpet cleaner darleen? one of his nieghbors I think does. the question is will they let him use it?
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OceanLyons
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Does he have carpet or a hard surface? I have a household carpet cleaner somebody could take up. It does an OK job. Not the best by any means, but it sucks up some water.
random_ryan
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I think its carpet.
bajabum
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I have those setting outside on the porch. Unfortunately things like heater controller thermocouples staying in the tank and other trivial details come into play. I am thinking it through to make sure I have the trivial details covered. Off course there is the "Lets go play with the electric cords while standing in the saltwater on the floor". The brightside is the leak occured on the corner with all the electrical componets underneath, but missed them.
buffalobunch
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We're on standby with the carpet cleaner and wet/dry vac ready to go.
Wet/Dry Vacs? They pick up a lot of water and usually someone on the block has one. Throw a rubber tarp, layers of garbage bags, what have you on it and get any metal toe rings off your feet
) Hey didn't we recently have a discussion on a similar situation and wasn't there a member who's a "carpet dude" (for lack of memory) who knows about this stuff?
) Hey didn't we recently have a discussion on a similar situation and wasn't there a member who's a "carpet dude" (for lack of memory) who knows about this stuff?
buffalobunch
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We're on standby with the carpet cleaner and wet/dry vac ready to go.
bajabum
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Leak has completely stopped over night. Epoxy worked for now. Mike tried to get the water out of carpet with carpet cleaner, but none would come out so air conditioner should dry carpet. Looks like it is stable now. As long as it doesn't start leaking again all should be OK. Will use kevlar wrap and epoxy to eliminate top spread when I get back. Carbon and epoxy for the two verticle joints that appear to be vulnerable on bow fronts and corner tanks. It was time to trim it out anyway and make it look nice.
Thanks everybody, I need a nap, it was a long night. On the bright side, It could have been real bad.
Thanks everybody, I need a nap, it was a long night. On the bright side, It could have been real bad.
random_ryan
New member
Baja give me a call if you need anything.
SurpriseReefer
In Memoriam
Baja - how is everything? Let me know if you could use a hand with anything... Im just a short 90 miles away!!!
bajabum
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36 hours on the road and made it back. All livestock is fine. Brought tank back on line to a drip, but that will be fixed tommorrow. 1/4 gap in silicon, but epoxy will fix that tommorrow. Soaking up wet spots. A little carpet cleaning later.
I want to thank everybody for there help. It was sure a nice feeling to realize I was not helpless, I had friends.
The chemistry I am using worked perfect on autopilot for 2 weeks. Zero damage to corals, so I have cranked the kalk backup to max. Even the ones that were exposed to low salinity came through fine. Back to cleaning the mess up.
I want to thank everybody for there help. It was sure a nice feeling to realize I was not helpless, I had friends.
The chemistry I am using worked perfect on autopilot for 2 weeks. Zero damage to corals, so I have cranked the kalk backup to max. Even the ones that were exposed to low salinity came through fine. Back to cleaning the mess up.
OceanLyons
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Glad to hear everything turned out well.
