Laminated flooring, fish tank and......

[PChristy]

WATER! Cleaning our 55 gallon tank I took the filter body apart to clean it - put everything back together and started to refill the tank - you guessed it the little motor that is in the filter body that circulates the water was not on tight and this was the out come -
Had to go out to the shop and grab what ever wood was first in line - a piece of Cherry and I cut some wedges


Took the wedges and put them under the tank stand so that I could get the water out from under it



Took a hair dryer to make sure everything got dry - for some reason the wedge picture keeps coming up here - it has the Wedge picture in the window for the hair dryer but here is the link to the hair dryer pic

www.ncwoodworker.net/pp/data/500/thumbs/Hair_Dryer.jpg

I had to get the water up fast because of the flooring - we had to replace the flooring in the kitchen last summer because of a water leak under the sink while we where away on vacation - our oldest came over to turn everything back on and the water started leaking under the sink - LOML works at a laminate flooring manufacture and it would not be in our house if she did not get a great deal on it

[ptt49er]

UH OH!!

Glad you got it cleaned up though, hopefully you've avoided damaging the floor!

[flatheadfisher]

Been there, done that - twice. No fun. Good luck!

[Bas]

Water and wood, especially laminated wood don't mix. Glad you got it right away!