Water Woes

As I said much earlier, living in a motorhome is a lot like living in a regular home. However, the plumbing is much more creative. Water comes to the sinks either directly from a hose into the plumbing, or from a water tank which uses a pump for the needed pressure. It flows through "plastic" piping. The toilet is different from a regular house toilet, in our case anyway.  The waste water is also very different, but that's not part of today's story. Probably will be another story.
So, the toilet seal is not very good and the bathroom floor was wet. I left the bathroom door closed for a few days with the heat on to dry out the floor. It was then that I realized the wet floor had another source. I looked under the bathroom sink and found that the wastewater pipe was dripping. However, the floor under the sink was dry. I fixed the pipe, which had been nudged out of alignment when I had improvised a shelf under there. But I still had not found the real source of the water and noticed that it was coming from under the carpet in the hallway. The bathroom carpet was ripped out months ago when we had other water disasters and since then, the floor has been ruined from the continual water problems.  I borrowed a carpet knife and started ripping up carpet in the hallway. As I followed the wet floor, at first I thought we had some weird leak from the shower, since we left the shower water continually running to avoid frozen pipes. My neighbor came over to see how it was going, and water dripped on his head from the ceiling air conditioner, so he thought we had a roof leak. But I was doubtful and after he left, I kept ripping up carpet along the walls. Further investigation found that the water heater, under the kitchen sink, was leaking. My neighbor came back over along with another, and the two guys did all that guy kind of thing, figuring out the problem, asking questions, tinkering here and there. They slid a tv dinner tray under the leaking joint and gave me guy type warnings about rusty pipes and a big job to get into when the weather warms up. The little lady has been warned. A couple of days later (and lots of tray emptying), I heard some commotion outside. The guys were back, tinkering with the back of the hot water heater. They let out some of the water and probably some air, and now there is hardly any leak. I am so looking forward to summer time when we can redo the ruined subflooring and put in some new carpet or other type of flooring. Yes, it will be a big job, but we can do it.