Home Project: Day 8

Today started like any other day. We decided not to do any work at the house today to give ourselves a much needed break. Instead we wanted to run a few errands and organize the house a little. These plans changed when we arrived at the house tonight to find a puddle of water in the middle of our kitchen dining area and water dripping from the ceiling. It didn't take long to figure out that the water was coming from the upstairs bathroom where another puddle sat behind the toilet. AHHHHHHH!!!!
Here are the facts:
1) We were last in the house Sunday night around 8 pm. I dropped in quickly to grab a few things and there was no water issue to be seen.
2) We had turned off the water that morning around 9 am before leaving the house for the day. (We turned off the water each night because of the refrigerator water issue -see day 3)
3) We have done nothing more than flush the upstairs toilet since getting access to the house.
4) The toilet did not appear to have overflown and the previous owners say they never had a problem with the toilet.
5) The upstairs bathroom had no other water except directly behind the sink
So.... what the heck happened??????
We got most of the water cleaned up and the dripping contained. Ironically the only backerboard damaged was the part we stayed up until 5 am finishing. I guess we should have called it a night at 11. The drywall on the ceiling will definitely need to be replaced and maybe some of the flooring upstairs. Hopefully that is the extent of the damage.
After the first moments of panic and frustration I can't help but think that this might be a blessing in disguise. From what we can tell, the leak or whatever was a plumbing failure and was of no fault of our own. If that is the case than the flood was bound to happen eventually and much better it happen now before we have tile and furniture in the home than after. Our FHE lesson before heading over to the house was from Elder James B Martino's conference address titled "All things work together for our good." I know that the Lord is watching over and blessing us. Thinks will work out even if we have to do extra work.
Stay tuned for more exciting adventures in home ownership.

Damaged backerboards and puddle.

Tim removing the light fixture that had filled with water. Note the line of water on the ceiling where the water was dripping down.

The culprit. (Sorry for the sideways pic- I can't get it to rotate)