A gaping hole that makes me happy. . . weird

A few weeks ago, Sam asked me to come downstairs around 11 pm with a sound of concern, "Rach, can you come look at this?"  As a new homeowner, I will tell you, that is not a question you want to hear. I walked into our dining room to see Sam standing on a chair inspecting the ceiling, which looked soft and bloated. "Well that's not good."  Sam carefully reached up to test the dry wall and his finger poked right through. Crap. Our first house emergency. We figured leaky pipes were the problem, but we weren't sure who to call or what to do. So we did what any reasonable new homeowners would do, we emailed all of our home owning friends and our realtor, Ann, whom we both decided knows everything there is to know about problems found around the house.

The next morning, I checked my inbox and Ann responded to our email at 2 am. Did I mention that she's awesome. She told us she'd call us in the morning, but to call our warrantee company because plumbing issues should be covered. When she called, she discussed how we could diagnose the problem by opening up our master bath and guest bath plumbing panels, put some paper towels under the pipes, and run water over the different hardware in our fixtures in the tub. If there is damage to the pipe, the paper towel would get wet. Smart thinking.

We took out the plumbing panels next to the the tub fixtures in the master and guest bathrooms and were baffled. Nothing was wet. Nothing looked like it had been wet recently. Also, the ceiling was still soft but it didn't look as bad as it had the night before. WTF house. What exactly were you trying to tell us?

Thankfully, the warrantee company sent a plumber that week and he cut a hole into our ceiling.  What did he find? Nothing. Woot!

Actually, he found that there had been a crack in one of the master bathroom pipes, but it was repaired before. The drywall, however, hadn't been replaced, which was what led to our predicament. The warrantee company is supposed to come back soon to fix the hole, which means we'll be back to 100 percent soon.

So long story short, we paid $100 to the warrantee company to put a hole in our ceiling and tell us nothing is wrong, which we think is awesome.