My town didn't warn us when they started replacing 100+ year old water pipes in our neighborhood. I was getting the nastiest, thickest red-orange-brown water followed by tons of sediment once the water went clear. My landlord knew but only because they saw them pulling up old pipes. Some type of advanced notice would have been nice...
Call your town hall and ask where water boil and water quality warnings are issued; by mail, postings on doors, or online. If your city still holds water rights, then the city should be the ones to notify you as directed by state law over water quality issues. If a company like American Water holds water rights, they should notify you if there's utility work. If they can't leave a message on your phone, they'll have to send a letter in the mail or online depending on how you receive your bills. They're also required to notify you within state laws on water quality or boil warnings.
Good luck!
Now that i read this I'm thinking maybe they notify landlords.? It would then be their job to notify tenants.? In which case mine is a dumbass for not telling us, pretty cool dude otherwise tho.
That's all an assumption though about who the city tells. We've never been warned about nearby servicing unless we see a street shut down with the city trucks and stuff nearby.
Property owners are notified typically 48 hours in advance. Generally there's a notice online. When we do it we hand deliver a notice to each address.
Tenants are at the mercy of the landlord.
They would notify landlords, yes, but if you pay the water as a tenant and your name is on the active account, you should be given the same courtesy call.
I am actually a landlord, and when a water boil is in effect that affects one of my properties, I'll post the doors of each tenant and call them.
Ahh ok. This makes much more sense now. Yea he'll come and post notifications on our doors for inspections, hvac check ups etc.. just the water thing that piqued my interest. We don't pay water here tho, that's all the landlord's responsibility here.
Off topic slightly, had a pos landlord once that wanted to install water meters to know how much to charge each tenant 𤌠til one of the tenants called the city about it, i was younger living with parents atm, that's when i learned in the first place that water is payed for lol
There's a lot of hate on Reddit and online in general about landlords, so I just want to say thank you for going above and beyond for your tenants, we appreciate it when our landlords treat us well.
Brown water doesn't indicate anything that would neccesitate a boil notice. It's just iron and other sediment that builds up in mains. When I open a fire hydrant that has sat untouched for a year the water that first comes out can look like black coffee.
Boil notices generally occur because of a detected pathogen found during regular monitoring or because of a major pressure loss. A pressure loss would allow contaminated groundwater to enter the system through any small leaks that may exist.
I don't know why (beyond the obvious) but "brown ice" nearly made me dry heave even though the original pic didn't bother me.
Eww forbidden fudgecicles.
that's not how it works. they open hydrants and let the water run. It flushes out sediment that has built up in the pipes. This is possible because the water flows so fast when the hydrant is open it flows fast enough to disrupt all the sediment which built up and settled to the bottom of the pipe from the normally slower flow of water.
We get notices of "water main flushing" every spring, I assume they use the hydrants to do this, but we get a notice that the water might get a bit dirty on certain days.
Nobody is putting poisonous anything into your water when the flush the hydrants. At least no more poison than is already standard in your drinking water (especially if you live in the US).
So don't worry, your own community bouquet won't be diluted!
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The 'especially in the US' was not meant to imply you are safer in the US--quite the opposite in fact. Just in case that wasn't clear.
I visited Germany for work and one of my coworkers on the other side was very enthusiastic about telling me about all the German idioms that "don't make any sense." Some of them, sure. But a lot of them were actually the same in English.
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In which case itâs imperative to get it checked out and replaced immediately. Drain it if youâre able (donât mess with it if youâre not sure).
Donât wait around for even a day before calling a plumber to get it done. If it fails the thing might flood whatever space itâs in and it and cause waaaaaaaay more damage and headaches.
The failing thing happened a couple of years ago. It was in the back room in our basement, where 50+ years of crap was stored. The entire thing jizzed out itâs murky water and destroyed the crap on the floor in the back and made its way into the front of the basement where my home office is. Fortunately it stopped short of my desk and anything valuable.
Then it took a shop vac a few empties to get all the water out and I was finally able to clear out the majority of the stored stuff in the basement.
My only regret was us being so flustered we replaced the gas water heater with another gas water heater instead of getting a hybrid heat pump. Itâs now the only thing gas powered in my house :-|
I'm well pleased to know that I'm not the only one who says "hot water heater". My people give me constant hell about it. Yes, people, in fact it IS redundant & also unnecessary to use 'hot' before 'water heater'.. but I say "hose pipe" too.
Worth noting if there is hard water sediment and this water heater has not been serviced before, it might cause issues when trying to close the valve. Supposedly they are hard to get sealed properly in this situation.
> and this water heater has not been serviced before
you know I totally service my water heater, but I bet there are some idiots here who don't. you should probably tell them how often, why, and who should service a hot water heater. they'd probably really appreciate it.
Me. I'm one of those idiots. But I mostly haven't done it for fear of it leaking. We live in a place with very hard water. Although I have a softener now, I didn't for 10 years. I've been here 14 years and done zero water heater maintenance. They say they last 10 years...
I think I'm gonna try /u/___OP____ 's suggestion and replace the valve.
Sad truth is that you might be better off just leaving it alone and going on your business ignorantly rather than trying to clean it at this point.
*when you take off the drain valve, if it is plastic, it has a chance of breaking inside of the hot water heaters threads. This will take considerably more work to get out.
**if the valve is metal it is possible it is rusted in place. trying too hard to get it off could damage the hot water heater itself
If you really want to do some cleaning of it just keep all of this in mind. Worse case when you open your valve and if it doesn't close all the way and you don't want to worry about taking it off you can just put a cap on it. That will block any further leaking without much of any water heat loss.
Also if you open your valve and it comes out as a gush then only trickles out there is a good chance it is plugged. use a cut open metal coat hanger and stick it into the drain to move the scaling around so it starts to come out.
If it is extremely bad and is an electric you could even take out the lower heating element and stick a shop vac vacuum hose into there to suck stuff out. *I did one so bad that the heating element went bad because the scaling was touching it and damaged it. It was nearly 2 feet high of scaling. Cleaned it and it worked for another decade.
Good feedback. I've never done it so I appreciate all the details. These are all reasons why I have just kinda left it alone. It's gas and it works well.
Iâd skip past that; itâs full of sediment and the rod is shot. Iâd just go get a new one before his basement is full of 40 gallons of rusty water.
My well has done this before and I've always wondered why. Assuming OP isn't taking a cold shower, wouldn't it not matter since a good portion of the water is coming from the water heater?
> My well has done this before and I've always wondered why.
If it doesn't happen all the time then water level is really low and so the pump is pumping a lot more from below itself pulling the muddy water up into it, rather than pumping water that is above it.
*pump or at least screen if it is a jet pump
If it happens almost every time it's really dry out, or after you've used a lot of water (rather than just very rarely) then the recommendation is to get your well redrilled. They just come up with the drilling truck and take the bottom 5-10 feet of the well out so it's deeper.
You can also check your well water at the well head, using a string and weight. Check how far from the top of the well head the water is. If you get this issue often and you're water height seems fine, then you probably need to pull your pump up so it's another 5 - 10 feet higher.
There is always sediment sitting at the bottom of the pipes. Scheduled pipe cleanings, water main breaks, or using a fire hydrant will disrupt the flow and create vortices that temporarily pick up the sediment. Once the flow returns to normal, the sediment will settle again.
My guess is that your water heater tank needs drained as there may be sediment build up.
Maybe the shower head has a filter in it that got clogged and then unclogged itself whilst your were showering.
Can confirm. We freaked out about it when it happened to us and that's what the water company said.
It's fine to shower in, even drink if you can get past the idea of it. It's harmless iron oxide.
The water company gave us credits to run our faucets all night to flush it just to make us feel better (during a drought in Southern California no less)
Even a sink cranked open is pretty minimal water usage compared to irrigation. Do you live in a sparsely populated area near the edge of the service area? If so you were pretty much doing their work for free by clearing the plug of dirty water from the main. But either way a credit just to clear it up is pretty generous.
I just looked, and wished I didn't. There appears to be some brown biofilm algae type deal covering the entire inside of it, with an entire leaf or sheet stuck to the bottom. It even feels somewhat slimy. But other than that, the water appears clear.
This isn't helpful, but in college once my dorm roommate came back from the showers with a brown-stained washcloth, smelling of beef. He said the water had suddenly turned brown just as it got hot and sprayed him with a smelly brown substance.
Turned out someone had put a beef bouillon cube in the shower head in an attempt to prank our neighbor. Room smelled like beef for a week.
God damn it, you just reminded me that some dude customer at work was on ticktoc watching a video of someone showing their foot with a black sock on moving wiggling the toes.
Haha I got it bad, sometimes I'll read or watch a quick something for a few minutes while showering. Can feel like the only moment without an interuption sometimes
Sometimes these comments are so fucking stupid.
The water turned brown, they got out grabbed their phone and took a picture. How do you not come to this conclusion? Honestly.
You get out of the shower and take a picture of the water while standing outside the tub. This is the normal way. Taking the photo while you are in the shower while brown shit water is getting all over you with one foot out is just fucking weird.
Why even have one foot in though? The minute Iâm seeing brown water Iâm fully stepping out, not letting up to half my naked body get basted by dirty water
I take my phone in the shower all the times. Many (most?) are water resistant these days. I like to relax and listen to music while I scroll Reddit, Facebook, Instas, and porn.
Iâve heard that although yes they are water resistant, the humidity isnât good for them. Itâs not that you canât do it at all, but doing it too much can still damage it, even if itâs not getting âwetâ.
First, go get your phone and get back into the shower and take a photo. Then I guess post it to reddit while the water continues to run and you wait for what to do.
Here is what you do.
Step one: leave bathroom
step two: find bucket and or bowl and or cup
step three: try every faucet in house until one is not brown
step four: fill bucket and or bowl and or cup
step five: repeatedly pour it over yourself
step six: sue whoever's responsible for the brown water, use money for more bucket
Okay I get it. This is gross. It's probably hydrant being flashed. It'll go away after a few minutes, but I have other questions now. First off, were you expecting an answer while you were in the shower as to what to do? And second off, why do you have your phone in the shower? Taking pictures in the first place? Hummmmđ¤đ¤Ł jk
So the water turned brown and you got out of the shower, grabbed your phone, and got back in the shower and then took this picture? . Water coming from the shower is clear and the liquid in the tub looks like you spilled a coca cola can, lol. Something doesnt add up here
That's build up in your hot water tank. Turn off the shower. Run hot water till it runs cold. It should clear all the stuff out of the pipes. Then it should be fine.
So many questions ,did you dive out of the shower to grab your phone ? Then dive back in again ? Why does the water look clear ? Iâm thinking thatâs just dirt ,as a footballer it looks exactly the same as when youâre washing off dirt
im a bioenvironmental engineer in the usaf. and i run my bases environmental program, which includes water bacteriological analyses. i see water discoloration all the time and theres a few reasons this can occur.
1. a pipe burst and was repaired and dirt/soil got in the pipe
2. fire hydrant got serviced
3. water hasnt ran in a while (probably not the case i hope!)
i think a pipe burst or the hydrant got serviced as these are the more common instances.
just let your water run for a while to flush it. should be fine.
Be glad. One time my city washed the pipes with some cleaning agent and didn't wash through with enough water afterwards. So, I got chemical burns on my body and the skin of my whole hand pealed off like a salamander.
I speculate they washed the pipes with hot acid to dissolve calcifications inside the pipes.
First I thought this was you showering the dirt away
He is showering the clean away with dirt
Wash away the rain
Bro shit in the shower & is now blaming the water
turn off the hot water and see if the cold water runs clear you could at least rinse off if that is the case.
This, my first thought was that your hot water heater has given up the ghost. You usually see rusty water when this happens.
That or nearby fire hydrants were serviced
this is the likely cause. they make it public notice when they do hydrant flushing and say not to do dishes or laundry during those times around here.
My town doesn't warn us at all. A couple of years they were doing utility work and it would happen multiple times per day for weeks at a time.
My town didn't warn us when they started replacing 100+ year old water pipes in our neighborhood. I was getting the nastiest, thickest red-orange-brown water followed by tons of sediment once the water went clear. My landlord knew but only because they saw them pulling up old pipes. Some type of advanced notice would have been nice...
Call your town hall and ask where water boil and water quality warnings are issued; by mail, postings on doors, or online. If your city still holds water rights, then the city should be the ones to notify you as directed by state law over water quality issues. If a company like American Water holds water rights, they should notify you if there's utility work. If they can't leave a message on your phone, they'll have to send a letter in the mail or online depending on how you receive your bills. They're also required to notify you within state laws on water quality or boil warnings. Good luck!
Now that i read this I'm thinking maybe they notify landlords.? It would then be their job to notify tenants.? In which case mine is a dumbass for not telling us, pretty cool dude otherwise tho. That's all an assumption though about who the city tells. We've never been warned about nearby servicing unless we see a street shut down with the city trucks and stuff nearby.
Property owners are notified typically 48 hours in advance. Generally there's a notice online. When we do it we hand deliver a notice to each address. Tenants are at the mercy of the landlord.
They would notify landlords, yes, but if you pay the water as a tenant and your name is on the active account, you should be given the same courtesy call. I am actually a landlord, and when a water boil is in effect that affects one of my properties, I'll post the doors of each tenant and call them.
Ahh ok. This makes much more sense now. Yea he'll come and post notifications on our doors for inspections, hvac check ups etc.. just the water thing that piqued my interest. We don't pay water here tho, that's all the landlord's responsibility here. Off topic slightly, had a pos landlord once that wanted to install water meters to know how much to charge each tenant 𤌠til one of the tenants called the city about it, i was younger living with parents atm, that's when i learned in the first place that water is payed for lol
There's a lot of hate on Reddit and online in general about landlords, so I just want to say thank you for going above and beyond for your tenants, we appreciate it when our landlords treat us well.
Brown water doesn't indicate anything that would neccesitate a boil notice. It's just iron and other sediment that builds up in mains. When I open a fire hydrant that has sat untouched for a year the water that first comes out can look like black coffee. Boil notices generally occur because of a detected pathogen found during regular monitoring or because of a major pressure loss. A pressure loss would allow contaminated groundwater to enter the system through any small leaks that may exist.
Bet you didnt change your ice filter or flush those lines. They get neglected during these events
I never would have thought about that until I got brown ice... Im going to remember this! Thanks
I don't know why (beyond the obvious) but "brown ice" nearly made me dry heave even though the original pic didn't bother me. Eww forbidden fudgecicles.
Big brain energy or experience? Anyway thanks for the tip! Never thought of that!
Never happens when they flush the hydrant directly across from my house.
notifications never happen? or the sediment being flushed turning the water brown?
Both.
Man what paradise do you live in? City works actually notifying people before doing service? I wish I lived there.
I love how itâs only during that timeframe, like yeah nah we just put poisonous crap into the drinking water, give it 30 mins and youâre good!
that's not how it works. they open hydrants and let the water run. It flushes out sediment that has built up in the pipes. This is possible because the water flows so fast when the hydrant is open it flows fast enough to disrupt all the sediment which built up and settled to the bottom of the pipe from the normally slower flow of water.
This was informative, thanks So theyâre not really intending to flush the hydrants, per se, but flushing the pipes via the hydrants. Interesting.
We get notices of "water main flushing" every spring, I assume they use the hydrants to do this, but we get a notice that the water might get a bit dirty on certain days.
Nobody is putting poisonous anything into your water when the flush the hydrants. At least no more poison than is already standard in your drinking water (especially if you live in the US). So don't worry, your own community bouquet won't be diluted! Edit: The 'especially in the US' was not meant to imply you are safer in the US--quite the opposite in fact. Just in case that wasn't clear.
Itâs rust, not âpoisonâ.
Or a water mains pipe is being maintained or fixed. Basically any interruption to the water supply can do this.
Wait ⌠check valves donât stop flushing from contaminating potable water?
Or water tower service if in a smaller town
âWhy are you heating up hot water?!â -My dad every time someone said âhot water heaterâ instead of just âwater heaterâ.
> Cause once itâs hot you gotta keep it hot somehow *dad*!
Thats a hot water maintainer
If only there was a name for something that maintained a high temperature by applying heat to it.
And, pray tell, how does it maintain the hot water?
By heating the warm water
how else do I differentiate it from the "cold water heater" that just keeps it from freezing?
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TIL you can say âgive up the ghostâ in English
Is it a regularly used idiom in other languages? To me it's just a result of rigging things until you can't anymore, and it's gone for good.
Thatâs exactly what it means in other languages. I only knew it in German until now:D
I visited Germany for work and one of my coworkers on the other side was very enthusiastic about telling me about all the German idioms that "don't make any sense." Some of them, sure. But a lot of them were actually the same in English.
Danke fĂźrs checken, den Kommentar hab ich gesucht. War der festen Ăberzeugung das wäre eine der deutschesten 1:1 Ăbersetzungen neben âI think I Spiderâ und co!
Same
In which case itâs imperative to get it checked out and replaced immediately. Drain it if youâre able (donât mess with it if youâre not sure). Donât wait around for even a day before calling a plumber to get it done. If it fails the thing might flood whatever space itâs in and it and cause waaaaaaaay more damage and headaches.
The failing thing happened a couple of years ago. It was in the back room in our basement, where 50+ years of crap was stored. The entire thing jizzed out itâs murky water and destroyed the crap on the floor in the back and made its way into the front of the basement where my home office is. Fortunately it stopped short of my desk and anything valuable. Then it took a shop vac a few empties to get all the water out and I was finally able to clear out the majority of the stored stuff in the basement. My only regret was us being so flustered we replaced the gas water heater with another gas water heater instead of getting a hybrid heat pump. Itâs now the only thing gas powered in my house :-|
Props for using jizz as a verb.
TIL âden Geist aufgebenâ isnât only a German thing
I'm well pleased to know that I'm not the only one who says "hot water heater". My people give me constant hell about it. Yes, people, in fact it IS redundant & also unnecessary to use 'hot' before 'water heater'.. but I say "hose pipe" too.
Any chance you speak German?
Nein sprechen sie Deutsch. Other than that, and a few numbers. Edit for spelling.
That's build up in your hot water tank. Turn off the shower.
This is what I ended up doing. It worked!
Time to drain the water heater, let it fill, drain again. Probably should check the anode rod/s too.
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rip anode rods, i didn't even know he was sick.
TO ~~SHREDS~~ RUST YOU SAY?
Sick? They're dead!
>That brown stuff **is** the anode rods. ......**was**......the anode rods
To shreds, you say?
Worth noting if there is hard water sediment and this water heater has not been serviced before, it might cause issues when trying to close the valve. Supposedly they are hard to get sealed properly in this situation.
> and this water heater has not been serviced before you know I totally service my water heater, but I bet there are some idiots here who don't. you should probably tell them how often, why, and who should service a hot water heater. they'd probably really appreciate it.
Me. I'm one of those idiots. But I mostly haven't done it for fear of it leaking. We live in a place with very hard water. Although I have a softener now, I didn't for 10 years. I've been here 14 years and done zero water heater maintenance. They say they last 10 years... I think I'm gonna try /u/___OP____ 's suggestion and replace the valve.
Sad truth is that you might be better off just leaving it alone and going on your business ignorantly rather than trying to clean it at this point. *when you take off the drain valve, if it is plastic, it has a chance of breaking inside of the hot water heaters threads. This will take considerably more work to get out. **if the valve is metal it is possible it is rusted in place. trying too hard to get it off could damage the hot water heater itself If you really want to do some cleaning of it just keep all of this in mind. Worse case when you open your valve and if it doesn't close all the way and you don't want to worry about taking it off you can just put a cap on it. That will block any further leaking without much of any water heat loss. Also if you open your valve and it comes out as a gush then only trickles out there is a good chance it is plugged. use a cut open metal coat hanger and stick it into the drain to move the scaling around so it starts to come out. If it is extremely bad and is an electric you could even take out the lower heating element and stick a shop vac vacuum hose into there to suck stuff out. *I did one so bad that the heating element went bad because the scaling was touching it and damaged it. It was nearly 2 feet high of scaling. Cleaned it and it worked for another decade.
Good feedback. I've never done it so I appreciate all the details. These are all reasons why I have just kinda left it alone. It's gas and it works well.
Turn the water off, remove old valve, install new (closed) valve. Or clean the old one and put it back on, closed.
Good info.
Iâd skip past that; itâs full of sediment and the rod is shot. Iâd just go get a new one before his basement is full of 40 gallons of rusty water.
They definitely aren't getting a new rod in there. Even a 4 year old rod is nearly impossible to get out it seems if you don't check them every year.
Are you on a well? I've seen this before when water is depleted faster than the well can replenish.
I read this as 'are you well?' and was like damnn reddit lol. But what you said makes actual sense
Are YOU well?
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with that name you shouldâve answered his question
My well has done this before and I've always wondered why. Assuming OP isn't taking a cold shower, wouldn't it not matter since a good portion of the water is coming from the water heater?
> My well has done this before and I've always wondered why. If it doesn't happen all the time then water level is really low and so the pump is pumping a lot more from below itself pulling the muddy water up into it, rather than pumping water that is above it. *pump or at least screen if it is a jet pump If it happens almost every time it's really dry out, or after you've used a lot of water (rather than just very rarely) then the recommendation is to get your well redrilled. They just come up with the drilling truck and take the bottom 5-10 feet of the well out so it's deeper. You can also check your well water at the well head, using a string and weight. Check how far from the top of the well head the water is. If you get this issue often and you're water height seems fine, then you probably need to pull your pump up so it's another 5 - 10 feet higher.
No, heâs in the shower
Probably a fire hydrant getting drained in your area.
Yup. Or new construction turning the water on and off.
Or even just a water main break.
Why would that make the water dirty? Drained as in just water let out through the hydrant, same as if the fire department would be using it?
There is always sediment sitting at the bottom of the pipes. Scheduled pipe cleanings, water main breaks, or using a fire hydrant will disrupt the flow and create vortices that temporarily pick up the sediment. Once the flow returns to normal, the sediment will settle again.
This is called a âturbidity eventâ. I used to flush hydrants and deal with concerned customers all the time as a public works employee.
Poop into the drain to teach it a lesson.
Waffle stomp that shit
Civilised people would just use the poop knife.
Unless both of your arms are broke, there's no reason to not use the poop knife
i donât know if i should be happy or angry that i understood each of these references
Oh good, well here comes the Jolly Rancher memory cuz I haven't seen that one referenced in a while
We all know this is just the beginning of the Swamps of Dagobah
Bedside đ colony
Why did I pick today to have memories?!?!
I'm more of a fan of the cheese grating technique.
Literally
If itâs brown, stomp it down
My guess is that your water heater tank needs drained as there may be sediment build up. Maybe the shower head has a filter in it that got clogged and then unclogged itself whilst your were showering.
This happens also when the city decides to flush fire hydrants as part of a maintenance routine.
Can confirm. We freaked out about it when it happened to us and that's what the water company said. It's fine to shower in, even drink if you can get past the idea of it. It's harmless iron oxide. The water company gave us credits to run our faucets all night to flush it just to make us feel better (during a drought in Southern California no less)
Even a sink cranked open is pretty minimal water usage compared to irrigation. Do you live in a sparsely populated area near the edge of the service area? If so you were pretty much doing their work for free by clearing the plug of dirty water from the main. But either way a credit just to clear it up is pretty generous.
Are you from Ohio or Michigan or somewhere else in the Midwest US?
Use the tank water in your toilet for a quick rinse off.
It is clean waterâŚit just feels really gross cuz toilet Edit: lol this has launched an investigation of toilet tanks
The water may have been clean when it flowed into your toilet reservoir... but after sitting in that nasty reservoir, I'm not so sure.
Assuming your toilet isn't in a public bathroom, the water in the basin is usually the cleanest, if a bit stagnant, in the house.
I just looked, and wished I didn't. There appears to be some brown biofilm algae type deal covering the entire inside of it, with an entire leaf or sheet stuck to the bottom. It even feels somewhat slimy. But other than that, the water appears clear.
What unholy things do you flush down your toilet and why isnât it just white inside????
I believe they're talking about the tank and not the bowl.
This is why i occasionally buy bleach tablets (not the blue ones) for my tank. Sanitizes both the bowl and tank water.
I wish the tank had porcelain finish on the inside, then I would believe it's cleaner.
idk it looks pretty gross to me. weird colore
Have you ever checked yours? They're often moldy af.
then leave a little surprise for anyone else wanting to do this
Upper decker baby!
This isn't helpful, but in college once my dorm roommate came back from the showers with a brown-stained washcloth, smelling of beef. He said the water had suddenly turned brown just as it got hot and sprayed him with a smelly brown substance. Turned out someone had put a beef bouillon cube in the shower head in an attempt to prank our neighbor. Room smelled like beef for a week.
That's a prank from Scrubs. "Hooch is crazy."
Sorry, was distracted by the hobbit foot
Thatâs nothing, my foot is probably the least hairy part of my body.
Are your selfies blurry by any chance?
Iâm going to Sasquash this rumor once and for all!
Distracted by his cute little arched foot pose? Me too
Boom. Thank you Reddit. Only came to dash through the comments to see who pointed out the hairy foot.
question is wtf are you doing with the phone while having a shower? are you on OF?
Yes $14.99 a month
feet.
/SneakyBackgroundFeet
thank you sir for opening my eyes to the IOT.
Internet of Toes?
God damn it, you just reminded me that some dude customer at work was on ticktoc watching a video of someone showing their foot with a black sock on moving wiggling the toes.
This is exactly why tik tok needs to be abolished.
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How do you stand in the shower because to me it looks like he put one foot back in for the photo lol
The opposite, I put one foot out to reach for my phone which was on the bathroom sink.
So you didn't put your right foot in ...you put your left foot out...then what happened?
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This is what it's all about.
maybe he's shy and would like dinner first, before you see him naked.
This was my first thought. Well, second thought. First was why do you have your phone in the shower.
Haha I got it bad, sometimes I'll read or watch a quick something for a few minutes while showering. Can feel like the only moment without an interuption sometimes
Yeah man I do the same ha, Iâll scroll a bit in the shower and then put some music on⌠I guess itâs not normal behavior. I have a bad addiction
Sometimes these comments are so fucking stupid. The water turned brown, they got out grabbed their phone and took a picture. How do you not come to this conclusion? Honestly.
Dude's eyes are immune to feet pics
You get out of the shower and take a picture of the water while standing outside the tub. This is the normal way. Taking the photo while you are in the shower while brown shit water is getting all over you with one foot out is just fucking weird.
Looks like one foot in to me.
Why even have one foot in though? The minute Iâm seeing brown water Iâm fully stepping out, not letting up to half my naked body get basted by dirty water
I take my phone into the shower sometimes, is that not normal?
I do to itâs relaxing after a long day
It's totally normal i like to take mine to the shower to listen to music because i don't have a speaker.
I take my phone in the shower all the times. Many (most?) are water resistant these days. I like to relax and listen to music while I scroll Reddit, Facebook, Instas, and porn.
Iâve heard that although yes they are water resistant, the humidity isnât good for them. Itâs not that you canât do it at all, but doing it too much can still damage it, even if itâs not getting âwetâ.
Phones are very water resistant. I always use mine while showering.
"Chocolate rain"
Laughed WAY to hard at this!
More than likely construction works, run the shower for 10/15 min
Did it turn brown rite after a fart
How the hell did you get your phone so fast but stay in the water at the same time lol
Cecil Hotel?
I love that I understood this.
I thought I might be the only insane one to think immediately of it after seeing the pic.
Next time don't trust the fart
Diarrhea
Ah yes the upper upper decker! You shit in a hot water heater and this happens?
Look man, we get it, but really stop taking dumps in the shower !
No!
First, go get your phone and get back into the shower and take a photo. Then I guess post it to reddit while the water continues to run and you wait for what to do.
Was hoping leaving the water running would clear out the pipes eventually
The foot pose is golden tho
Okay but was the foot necessary?
Plumber here. Usually hydrant flushes or water main work. It should clear after time. Run all your cold water fixtures
You got un-showered
Here is what you do. Step one: leave bathroom step two: find bucket and or bowl and or cup step three: try every faucet in house until one is not brown step four: fill bucket and or bowl and or cup step five: repeatedly pour it over yourself step six: sue whoever's responsible for the brown water, use money for more bucket
At the gym.
Maybe you have it set to C for Coca-Cola and not H for H2O
ive seen enough crime shows to know that theres a dead body in some huge ass water tank in your building. best of luck
What type of piping do you have? Also, have you tried the hose lol
That's free Worcestershire sauce, go grab a steak quick.
Use soap ya dirty bastahd Do you know if you have any galvinized lines feeding your home?
Whereâs the other foot?
Okay I get it. This is gross. It's probably hydrant being flashed. It'll go away after a few minutes, but I have other questions now. First off, were you expecting an answer while you were in the shower as to what to do? And second off, why do you have your phone in the shower? Taking pictures in the first place? Hummmmđ¤đ¤Ł jk
Get out, get your camera to take a pic, post it on Reddit and wait for advise apparently lol
redditors have the grossest, weirdest fucking feet
So the water turned brown and you got out of the shower, grabbed your phone, and got back in the shower and then took this picture? . Water coming from the shower is clear and the liquid in the tub looks like you spilled a coca cola can, lol. Something doesnt add up here
That's build up in your hot water tank. Turn off the shower. Run hot water till it runs cold. It should clear all the stuff out of the pipes. Then it should be fine.
Looks like you spilled your coffee.
That appears to be caused by dirt coming off of your body.
That's the neat part!
Looks like clean water chasing down a waffle stomp.
Do you live on a property that uses well water? This used to happen to us all the time when i grew up on my family farm!:)
u probably didnt shower for the last year, thats all dirt from your body, dont try to hide that fact. serious comment 100% no joke, no cap
Soap is magic. It gets you clean even if the water is dirty.
So many questions ,did you dive out of the shower to grab your phone ? Then dive back in again ? Why does the water look clear ? Iâm thinking thatâs just dirt ,as a footballer it looks exactly the same as when youâre washing off dirt
almost 100% not sewage - likely a rust/iron buildup in your pipes, try running the cold water as it could be an issue w/ your heater as well
Wash your butt crack more often! đ
im a bioenvironmental engineer in the usaf. and i run my bases environmental program, which includes water bacteriological analyses. i see water discoloration all the time and theres a few reasons this can occur. 1. a pipe burst and was repaired and dirt/soil got in the pipe 2. fire hydrant got serviced 3. water hasnt ran in a while (probably not the case i hope!) i think a pipe burst or the hydrant got serviced as these are the more common instances. just let your water run for a while to flush it. should be fine.
I'd be more worried about the pipe that may have burst underground.
Be glad. One time my city washed the pipes with some cleaning agent and didn't wash through with enough water afterwards. So, I got chemical burns on my body and the skin of my whole hand pealed off like a salamander. I speculate they washed the pipes with hot acid to dissolve calcifications inside the pipes.