Leak alarms are a great idea. After 3 incidents where I had some kind of problem involving a well pump that wouldn’t shut off and a housemate who didn’t notice for several hours I bought some.
Last weekend I discovered my family will sit there saying “Hey, WTF is that shrieking sound” until I walk in the door and say “Why is a water alarm going off”.
Water alarm = works great
family = needs more training
@mfladd Leak frogs are great! They work and they look good! So, Meh, does this mean they stopped making leak frogs? That would be the only good reason to buy this new thing.
@Barney You might want to get that looked at sooner rather than later. My hot water heater started to leak and then the bottom partly fell off (one story house so worse than if it happened in a basement).
Fortunately I was home at the time and cut off the water, threw every towel and blanket in the house on the water (well tried to create a damn to keep it from spreading beyond where it already was) and called the landlord. Spent ages wringing out soaked and dripping wet things trying to mop us something like 45 gallons of water.
Oh, I lived in another house where this happened in the basement when no one was home. Fortunately for me I had nothing down there, some housemates had stuff there though.
I realize you are your own landlord, but oh my gosh the amount of water that comes out of the bottom of a hot water heater when the bottom partly comes off is huge. That is one thing I’d get fixed sooner rather than later just in case.
@Barney Or you can move into a flood zone or into a hurricane zone and you can have your own private lake in your living room. Possibly with fish. You might need to put pontoons on your car though so you have a boat.
I have, numerous times… and the only thing left is humor. The rest had to be thrown out - smelled awful. I bought some. Only time I expect to find them floating is when I return from evacuation…
@dino2269 I’ve been flooded 3 times, twice as a kid (teen years so got to help with the cleanup) and once as an adult. I am not counting the small ones where you wake up in the morning, putting your feet on the rug and water squishes between your toes… that was due to renting a house with foundation and yard drainage problems and doesn’t really count as a flood as it was only and inch or so of water and didn’t engulf the entire house.
I now refuse to live in flood zones. Of course the consequence once of living on one of the highest points of land (that still would have been in a flood zone had there been a force 4 hurricane) in a costal area was being in the house when it was engulfed in a lightening ball (melted the lightening rod on the roof but fortunately that protected everything from damage). The tree in the front yard had black char marks from multiple lightening strikes.
That being said, if I had to choose my natural disaster to be at risk of, that would be floods/hurricanes and not tornados or earthquakes. At least you have warning and you can leave. The others you don’t and can’t.
I had had several near misses with tornadoes and one time looked out my car window and saw one just to my left and only slightly behind me. As I was trying to drive away from it (eg it was headed east so I headed south) the wind picked up enough it was hard to drive and tree branches were falling.
Some years ago I lived about 5 miles from the force 5 one that took out 1/3 of Moore, Oklahoma (didn’t live there the second time they got wiped) and by pure luck I had just moved when the path of one hit 4 houses from where I used to live. When I moved out of tornado alley I, only then, realized just how stressed I was in thunderstorms, how I had automatically watched the sky every time there was a thunderstorm, keeping an eye out.
@dino2269 Sometimes you have to laugh when you want to cry.
Yes, I’ve been through a hot water heater cutting loose with all of it’s water. It happened at my mom’s house when she was in the nursing home and no one was around to catch what was happening. There was water all over the basement – and then some more water. She lost a lot of furniture and family heirlooms in the “flood”. It also quadrupled her water bill.
I don’t even want to talk about what happened when her sump pump quit a few months later.
So, yes, I am going to do something about my hot water heater, next week. Hopefully it will last that long.
I have a Leak Frog story; We were hosting a family Christmas party and my niece’s boyfriend whom imbibed a tad too much (defcon: staggering) toddled off to the bathroom. A few seconds in, we heard a loud CRASH so my niece went to check on him during which we could hear a muffled are you okay and some scuffling and finally, she came out saying that everything is okay. He eventually came out and wandered outside where he performed several objectionable acts and the rest of us continued our game of Mexican Train. About 10 minutes in, the Leak Frog went off. I had forgotten that it was behind the guest bathroom toilet (it’s been there for years) but lo-and-behold, the drunken fool had broken the seal at the bottom of the toilet tank. I shut off the water and announced the bathroom “out of order” with no more than a few ounces of water “damage” (I soaked it up with a hand towel). The end.
My last wet basement rang the register to over $23k in repairs. No standing water, just enough to wet the carpet and pad, and start working up the drywall. I now have some home automation water sensors tied into my system. $5 is a cheap way to try and avoid that mess.
@TPS It can also do , but they’re not selling those. I couldn’t find a good ghost character though; my computer renders in a manner completely unlike what they’re selling.
Back when WOOT was WOOT, and Amazon was nervous, I was in for 3 Leak Frogs on two separate occasions. Since then they have saved us on sink leaks three times, a washing machine leak once, & just this past Friday when the hubby advised he heard this shrill sound coming from the corner of the garage - ie: the water heater was just starting to let go at the bottom seam. Everybody should have something like this in their house to save them literally thousands of dollars in repair bills. I still have my happily functioning Leak Frogs working excellently after all these years, or I would have definitely been in for these.
I have one in my pool to let me know that it is still full of water. Whenever it stops sounding I run out there to see if the pool has drained. It really runs through batteries, but it’s worth it for pizza mind.
Just bought my first house, and after reading water heater horror stories, I decided $15 is a good investment for potential older water heater hazards.
Holy crap! Their marketing technique of “we wanna give the morning people a chance to…blah blah blah” worked on me. In for…2? What the hell am I doing?
There I sat, on my birthday, in the tub, surrounded by water, waiting for 4pm to roll around so I could snag three critters to yell at me real loud when water was around. This amused me, but what brought me to such a strange state? Well I’ll tell you, Timmy:
I moved to the capitol of Canada for a job back in ole ‘17, not realizing the all of about three livable areas in the whole country are ridiculously overpriced when it comes to housing (don’t get me started on alcohol prices, need a way to smuggle in CaseMates crates! Let me know if you need an in for BootleggerMates, eh?). Was forced to rent for more a month than my old mortgage, which will never sit right. So, wound up in a crappy townhouse with a wee baby on the way — the place had a major roof leak the week I moved in, a 1.5 to 2 foot basement flood in the first year, and just a couple weeks ago a busted water heater trying real hard to turn the basement back into a swimming pool. The snow’s starting to melt at pace, finally, and a big ole sky wetness is a’comin’, quite likely to try to force a repeat of last year. Will the bagged up tennis ball plugging the drain hold back the pending backup? Or will it just keep potential leaking foundation water in? Will the trusty dehumidifier stay strong? Will these Mehtastic critters show up in time to help this round? Well, naw on that last one — they’re taking a detour to Georgia for later pickup, but next time…next time I’ll be prepared with floating sound and fury, to head all this mess off at the pass.
All that to say, hey Meh, maybe send a soggy, subpar birthday card with that order?
Three AAA’s each, not included? I was thinking about grabbing a few to place in the basement and bathrooms, but paying for batteries on top of each sensor? Crazy.
@bph just got 72 of them for like next to nothing on here not long ago also Best Buy runs a 48 pack once a month on their Deal of the Day for 8 dollars. I check it daily like I do Meh. Batteries should be the least of your expenses.
In for 3. Just had a pump bladder burst in the basement last month around 12am. By the time someone went down there it was 4:30. Hard to tell how much water there was but per my calculations on how many gallons of water the pump I bought pumps per minute and the fact it was running for 11 hours straight we think it was around 135,000 gallons. Overall it caused around 55k in damage because it submerged some equipment that was down there. It took about a week to get everything almost back to normal. Still waiting on parts for a few items. Thankfully we had flood insurance but I’m not willing to ever have that happen again.
@RedOak Oh man, you don’t know the half of it. That pump normally pumps water from the basement to a water tank which would be the 10th floor (if it were enclosed). It didn’t stop pumping when it burst so it was geysering like a fire hose for about 4 hours! Turns out that pump had been running almost non-stop for 30 years!
@rpstrong WTH happened to the price of leak frogs??? My whole family has gotten Leak Frogs as gifts. I had to break down and buy a leak puppy qs a house warming gift for a friend cuz I couldn’t afford a leak frog. I seriously miss the frigs.
I already have one alarm for the water heater in my garage. I wanted more but they cost $14 for one in the local store. To get 3 for a dollar more, it’s a no brainier.
@EvilSmooNow you did it… Every PETA member around will be buying these for the next local Bass tournament or tossing them off the side of the My Bob Barker to fuck with the whalers. How we ever gonna get to buy these for our humble water heaters… ???
Curious-If you have a humid environment, how often does it give false alarms, thus scaring the shit out of everyone because it’s just 90% humidity? (I kinda want to grab to shove in the convectors that have already caused us to replace the hardwood once in our condo’s living room, but no one in my household does well with sharp noises like this, so I worry about false positives waking us from sleep)
@Jamileigh17 Because water has to bridge the gap between the two sensor pins, I strongly doubt that anything short of complete water immersion would cause these to go off.
@dalekjoe@G1@Jamileigh17@squishybrain Complete water immersion of the sensor electrodes on the bottom of the unit, not complete water immersion of the entire unit itself. Have you ever seen those little novelty Easter chicks that ‘chirp’ when you touch your fingers to the terminals on the bottom? This works in exactly the same way. Except the ‘chirp’ is a million times louder.
see…if ya had bought the simpli safe system yesterday you could have ordered the water alarm that would let you know the same thing…only the simpli safe would have dones it when you were AWAY from your home…
@OsamaBinLamaa exactly…though it’s nice to have an alarm under a water heater, even when you are home, it’s even better to be aware of en emergency when you are not home
@yeppers You’ve never had your house get destroyed in a fire, have you?
120dB is enough to permanently damage your hearing immediately (or so I’ve “heard”). 95-100dB is enough for smoke alarms and what the leak frogs were, I think. I’d think as loud as a smoke alarm would be plenty.
@eightyd Thanks for the warning (seriously). I’ll be certain to wear hearing protection if (when) these go off, and I’ll pre-dampen (haha) the speaker a bit while wearing said hearing protection, to prevent harm to my pets.
Can I put one of these on a Roomba so it can patrol the house? Otherwise, isn’t it a bit like playing roulette where you have to place bets on what might leak? (And we’re limited to 3 guesses?)
@walarney Well guess number one - hot water heater as if that gives way you have a big mess - been there twice only fortunately once it was in the basement and none of my stuff was down there.
@walarney Next to the washer is a good guess. In my house, an unused basement shower is a prime target, because the only time it would get wet is if the septic tank is backing up.
a) why do they make it look like water needs to drip on top of it to work?
b) why don’t they show where the sensor contacts are?
c) what is P3 on top of it mean?
Sold Out!!!
Bummer. My Leak Frog needs the company.
My Leak Frog is a veteran trooper, alerting me twice for a toilet flood and once for a hot water heater flood.
But there are other areas in the home that need flood alerts, and two neighbors that still suffer from no-flood-alert-itus. Service Master has been there friend several times.
Bummer
Needs more ribbit
Paint it green and stick some googly eyes on it.
@medz So, googly eyes on sale tomorrow?
Meh version of the leak frog. Cool.
@cengland0 This really takes me back - leak frog was one of my first woot buys.
@cengland0 @venussuz I have them all over the house and have bought them for kids and grandkids.
@cengland0 Kind of feel a little nostalgic. Does this mean we will see these every month for a while?
My leak frogs are still going strong. Saved me some damage a few months ago when a coupling started leaking in the basement.
I just keep thinking about throwing it in an annoying neighbor’s pool.
@curelullaby @Barney should read this because this is funny.
Leak alarms are a great idea. After 3 incidents where I had some kind of problem involving a well pump that wouldn’t shut off and a housemate who didn’t notice for several hours I bought some.
Last weekend I discovered my family will sit there saying “Hey, WTF is that shrieking sound” until I walk in the door and say “Why is a water alarm going off”.
Water alarm = works great
family = needs more training
Something just seems wrong about offering something that is NOT a leak frog. Maybe it Irks me more than it should.
@mfladd Leak frogs are great! They work and they look good! So, Meh, does this mean they stopped making leak frogs? That would be the only good reason to buy this new thing.
@smilingjack I agree. Saved me a couple of times. How could someone stop making these wonderful companions. Meh should buy the rights to make them.
@sammydog01 Are you paying attention? I have a leaky hot water heater and could probably use this in the near future.
@Barney I ordered it even before you nagged me. I have an older Meh alarm I use under my water heater.
@sammydog01 Nag? That was a sweet little hint. Do you want me to drown?
@Barney
/giphy merciful-credible-money
@Barney You might want to get that looked at sooner rather than later. My hot water heater started to leak and then the bottom partly fell off (one story house so worse than if it happened in a basement).
Fortunately I was home at the time and cut off the water, threw every towel and blanket in the house on the water (well tried to create a damn to keep it from spreading beyond where it already was) and called the landlord. Spent ages wringing out soaked and dripping wet things trying to mop us something like 45 gallons of water.
Oh, I lived in another house where this happened in the basement when no one was home. Fortunately for me I had nothing down there, some housemates had stuff there though.
I realize you are your own landlord, but oh my gosh the amount of water that comes out of the bottom of a hot water heater when the bottom partly comes off is huge. That is one thing I’d get fixed sooner rather than later just in case.
@Barney I hope it’s not crap. Good luck!
@Kidsandliz I’ve always wanted an indoor pool.
@sammydog01 Fingers crossed.
@Barney Or you can move into a flood zone or into a hurricane zone and you can have your own private lake in your living room. Possibly with fish. You might need to put pontoons on your car though so you have a boat.
@Barney I’m pretty sure you’re well on your way!
@yeppers Gee, thanks. (Where’s that sarcasm button?)
@Barney @Kidsandliz You never been through any of that or would realize none of that is funny. Maybe humor isn’t your thing.
@Barney @dino2269 @Kidsandliz
I have, numerous times… and the only thing left is humor. The rest had to be thrown out - smelled awful. I bought some. Only time I expect to find them floating is when I return from evacuation…
@dino2269 I’ve been flooded 3 times, twice as a kid (teen years so got to help with the cleanup) and once as an adult. I am not counting the small ones where you wake up in the morning, putting your feet on the rug and water squishes between your toes… that was due to renting a house with foundation and yard drainage problems and doesn’t really count as a flood as it was only and inch or so of water and didn’t engulf the entire house.
I now refuse to live in flood zones. Of course the consequence once of living on one of the highest points of land (that still would have been in a flood zone had there been a force 4 hurricane) in a costal area was being in the house when it was engulfed in a lightening ball (melted the lightening rod on the roof but fortunately that protected everything from damage). The tree in the front yard had black char marks from multiple lightening strikes.
That being said, if I had to choose my natural disaster to be at risk of, that would be floods/hurricanes and not tornados or earthquakes. At least you have warning and you can leave. The others you don’t and can’t.
I had had several near misses with tornadoes and one time looked out my car window and saw one just to my left and only slightly behind me. As I was trying to drive away from it (eg it was headed east so I headed south) the wind picked up enough it was hard to drive and tree branches were falling.
Some years ago I lived about 5 miles from the force 5 one that took out 1/3 of Moore, Oklahoma (didn’t live there the second time they got wiped) and by pure luck I had just moved when the path of one hit 4 houses from where I used to live. When I moved out of tornado alley I, only then, realized just how stressed I was in thunderstorms, how I had automatically watched the sky every time there was a thunderstorm, keeping an eye out.
@dino2269 Sometimes you have to laugh when you want to cry.
Yes, I’ve been through a hot water heater cutting loose with all of it’s water. It happened at my mom’s house when she was in the nursing home and no one was around to catch what was happening. There was water all over the basement – and then some more water. She lost a lot of furniture and family heirlooms in the “flood”. It also quadrupled her water bill.
I don’t even want to talk about what happened when her sump pump quit a few months later.
So, yes, I am going to do something about my hot water heater, next week. Hopefully it will last that long.
And, yes, I will keep laughing.
@Barney You’re just lucky those massaging shampoo brushes were three bucks too expensive,
@sammydog01 And then I’d have four of them! (Uh, you would have ordered purple, right?)
How’s the Dramamine holding out?
@Barney Hope in this case it is something simple and cheap like a gasket or something. Good luck.
@Kidsandliz My water heater is 23 years old. I think it’s time to replace it.
@Barney I haven’t needed it.
@Barney Yeah you are probably operating on borrowed time.
@sammydog01 Yay!!
April fools day is coming. Hiding a couple of these in the shower might be fun.
/buy
That should have worked. Fine, now my better senses have taken over again.
I have a Leak Frog story; We were hosting a family Christmas party and my niece’s boyfriend whom imbibed a tad too much (defcon: staggering) toddled off to the bathroom. A few seconds in, we heard a loud CRASH so my niece went to check on him during which we could hear a muffled are you okay and some scuffling and finally, she came out saying that everything is okay. He eventually came out and wandered outside where he performed several objectionable acts and the rest of us continued our game of Mexican Train. About 10 minutes in, the Leak Frog went off. I had forgotten that it was behind the guest bathroom toilet (it’s been there for years) but lo-and-behold, the drunken fool had broken the seal at the bottom of the toilet tank. I shut off the water and announced the bathroom “out of order” with no more than a few ounces of water “damage” (I soaked it up with a hand towel). The end.
@aolshove It’s crazy to think how much longer the alternate universe non-Leak Frog story is.
@dave Is that the one where the floor under the toilet rotted out and crashed down into the basement taking me with it?
Leak frog is cuter than this leak ghost.
My last wet basement rang the register to over $23k in repairs. No standing water, just enough to wet the carpet and pad, and start working up the drywall. I now have some home automation water sensors tied into my system. $5 is a cheap way to try and avoid that mess.
Quick, send some to Trump and Mueller.
@hchavers
For the record, Unicode can do a lot, such as P7̅0̅
@TPS It can also do
, but they’re not selling those. I couldn’t find a good ghost character though; my computer renders 
in a manner completely unlike what they’re selling.
Back when WOOT was WOOT, and Amazon was nervous, I was in for 3 Leak Frogs on two separate occasions. Since then they have saved us on sink leaks three times, a washing machine leak once, & just this past Friday when the hubby advised he heard this shrill sound coming from the corner of the garage - ie: the water heater was just starting to let go at the bottom seam. Everybody should have something like this in their house to save them literally thousands of dollars in repair bills. I still have my happily functioning Leak Frogs working excellently after all these years, or I would have definitely been in for these.
Ribbit. Ribbit.
/giphy leak frog
/giphy leak frog
Throw in some Meh Face Popsockets and you might have a deal.
Attach to top surface as handles to easily relocate the device or retrieve from your flooded basement.
DAY 159
@mike808
Might have a deal???
You are a tease. Maybe for that they will never have MFP again?
No thanks, my leak frogs are still on patrol. (one even went off a couple months ago)
I have one in my pool to let me know that it is still full of water. Whenever it stops sounding I run out there to see if the pool has drained. It really runs through batteries, but it’s worth it for pizza mind.
/giphy unhealthy-bragging-sushi
@chienfou not what I expected…
@chienfou I like it.
@chienfou @sammydog01 And the Charlie Brown music is now playing in my head.
@blaineg @sammydog01 WTF is that playing the piano anyway???
@chienfou egg on rice sushi.
/image Tamago sushi 2
@RiotDemon duhhh…
You know, after watching @chadp’s video I think I need that third flood siren.
/buy
@dave It worked! Your order number is: fatal-premium-hornet
/image fatal premium hornet
/giphy fatal premium hornet
A Leak Frog saved my parent’s basement from a flood. I’ll take 3.
I’m getting old so I wonder if I can hide one of these in the front of my pants to save some embarrassment.
@jmbunkin It Depends - are you embarrassed by a 120db announcement?
@jmbunkin @rpstrong hence the motto:
Nothing says “I pissed my pants” like a P3 leak detector. Get yours today…
I don’t think that lady is using it right. It is supposed to float.
geez… leak frogs for $90? I still have several of those new in the box.
@RogerWilco I do too - time to sell and make a profit!
Spent Sunday morning helping two neighbors clean their wet basements. In for three.
Just bought my first house, and after reading water heater horror stories, I decided $15 is a good investment for potential older water heater hazards.
/giphy relevant-masterful-sodium
Holy crap! Their marketing technique of “we wanna give the morning people a chance to…blah blah blah” worked on me. In for…2? What the hell am I doing?
risky-dippy-feast
/giphy jagged-uncanny-structure
In fer 3.
There I sat, on my birthday, in the tub, surrounded by water, waiting for 4pm to roll around so I could snag three critters to yell at me real loud when water was around. This amused me, but what brought me to such a strange state? Well I’ll tell you, Timmy:
I moved to the capitol of Canada for a job back in ole ‘17, not realizing the all of about three livable areas in the whole country are ridiculously overpriced when it comes to housing (don’t get me started on alcohol prices, need a way to smuggle in CaseMates crates! Let me know if you need an in for BootleggerMates, eh?). Was forced to rent for more a month than my old mortgage, which will never sit right. So, wound up in a crappy townhouse with a wee baby on the way — the place had a major roof leak the week I moved in, a 1.5 to 2 foot basement flood in the first year, and just a couple weeks ago a busted water heater trying real hard to turn the basement back into a swimming pool. The snow’s starting to melt at pace, finally, and a big ole sky wetness is a’comin’, quite likely to try to force a repeat of last year. Will the bagged up tennis ball plugging the drain hold back the pending backup? Or will it just keep potential leaking foundation water in? Will the trusty dehumidifier stay strong? Will these Mehtastic critters show up in time to help this round? Well, naw on that last one — they’re taking a detour to Georgia for later pickup, but next time…next time I’ll be prepared with floating sound and fury, to head all this mess off at the pass.
All that to say, hey Meh, maybe send a soggy, subpar birthday card with that order?
Just got a note saying “Sorry We had an inventory issue, here’s a $5 coupon.” Anyone else?
@blaineg You know who to blame for that …
@blaineg I have tracking info that says it has left Texas. I’m sorry that meh wants your house to flood.
/image bass turds
@medz @narfcake Now I’m really confused, my canceled order just showed up.
Thanks to whatever elves were behind this.
@blaineg Unblame the goat!
Louisiana could use these
Three AAA’s each, not included? I was thinking about grabbing a few to place in the basement and bathrooms, but paying for batteries on top of each sensor? Crazy.
@bph You have not stocked up on Meh batteries? Shame on you!
@bph check your refrigerator?
@bph and when the batteries get low, does it alert you with the same 120db alarm?
@bph just got 72 of them for like next to nothing on here not long ago also Best Buy runs a 48 pack once a month on their Deal of the Day for 8 dollars. I check it daily like I do Meh. Batteries should be the least of your expenses.
I have extra leak frogs, but …
/image fun-watery-pen
@narfcake that bird in that water art thing looks freakin rad!
I don’t even need this but I bought it because I like P3…
I
my kill a watt.
I smell a very loud practical joke on April 1st.
/image peremptory-divine-paper
@PooltoyWolf This is more of a PoolToyFrog.
@mehcuda67 Those exist!
Wow has it been ten years. Where has my money I mean time gone.
In for 3. Just had a pump bladder burst in the basement last month around 12am. By the time someone went down there it was 4:30. Hard to tell how much water there was but per my calculations on how many gallons of water the pump I bought pumps per minute and the fact it was running for 11 hours straight we think it was around 135,000 gallons. Overall it caused around 55k in damage because it submerged some equipment that was down there. It took about a week to get everything almost back to normal. Still waiting on parts for a few items. Thankfully we had flood insurance but I’m not willing to ever have that happen again.
@ApplePI
Indeed, that sucks… or one supposes, blows. (The bladder.)
@RedOak Oh man, you don’t know the half of it. That pump normally pumps water from the basement to a water tank which would be the 10th floor (if it were enclosed). It didn’t stop pumping when it burst so it was geysering like a fire hose for about 4 hours! Turns out that pump had been running almost non-stop for 30 years!
/giphy standing-usual-crane
20 yr old water heaters. They should break any day now since I finally got some of these detectors. Sigh.
@outdoorslife that’s were I am too… hopefully they’ll hang on til the delivery date!
Amazon is now listing two sources for Leal Frogs - one for $89.99, the other for $99.98.
Please don’t tell me that someone bought the one for $756.89.
[Damn that One-Click button!]
@rpstrong WTH happened to the price of leak frogs??? My whole family has gotten Leak Frogs as gifts. I had to break down and buy a leak puppy qs a house warming gift for a friend cuz I couldn’t afford a leak frog. I seriously miss the frigs.
I already have one alarm for the water heater in my garage. I wanted more but they cost $14 for one in the local store. To get 3 for a dollar more, it’s a no brainier.
One for my kitchen sink, two for the bathrooms.
Yay for trying to be responsible.
/image obsolete erratic thrill
/giphy obsolete erratic thrill
$90 for a Leak Frog?!! Who knew that my 3 would become positive cash flow vehicles?
Or, throw it off a bridge, and watch it float downstream.
Screaming.
@EvilSmoo Now you did it… Every PETA member around will be buying these for the next local Bass tournament or tossing them off the side of the My Bob Barker to fuck with the whalers. How we ever gonna get to buy these for our humble water heaters… ???
That’ll be perfect for under my bed.
@norman8 Your bed leaks? It’s a waterbed, right? Right?
Curious-If you have a humid environment, how often does it give false alarms, thus scaring the shit out of everyone because it’s just 90% humidity? (I kinda want to grab to shove in the convectors that have already caused us to replace the hardwood once in our condo’s living room, but no one in my household does well with sharp noises like this, so I worry about false positives waking us from sleep)
@Jamileigh17 Because water has to bridge the gap between the two sensor pins, I strongly doubt that anything short of complete water immersion would cause these to go off.
@Jamileigh17 @squishybrain How does complete water immersion happen on something that floats?
@dalekjoe @Jamileigh17 @squishybrain The little metal things poking out the bottom are the sensors. Water is the switch.
It floats so that when water pours in, it won’t just muffle the siren and short out the circuitry. Water’s an ass like that.
This will float, and let you know good-n-loud that your day has taken a turn for the worse.
@G1 @Jamileigh17 @squishybrain That explains how the sensor works, but not how complete immersion would happen.
@dalekjoe @G1 @Jamileigh17 @squishybrain Complete water immersion of the sensor electrodes on the bottom of the unit, not complete water immersion of the entire unit itself. Have you ever seen those little novelty Easter chicks that ‘chirp’ when you touch your fingers to the terminals on the bottom? This works in exactly the same way. Except the ‘chirp’ is a million times louder.
@G1 @Jamileigh17 @PooltoyWolf @squishybrain Thanks for clarifying. My life is complete. I will now attempt to quit being a smart ass. Damn, attempt failed.
@dalekjoe @G1 @Jamileigh17 @squishybrain Have I fallen victim to text-based sarcasm again?? -dramatic sting-
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@kalfaz
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Alternative Leak Frog
Original Image potentially NSFW
@Kerig3 I was just thinking will this tell me if my nephews missed the bowl again and pees all over tge wall behind the toilet
I’m getting really tired of finding wet floors due to Washer, Water Heater, etc. Besides, I like…
/image comfortable-historic-spinach
I paid more for non floating leak frogs. This is a good deal and a smart buy for anyone with a basement.
/giphy mean-liable-slug
Will this work with other thicker, liquids? Asking for a Fiend. Yes fiend.
@Bumplepimp only until it clots…
Specs
What’s in the Box?
1x Floating Leak/Flood Alarms
Price Comparison
$14.99 at Amazon
Warranty
6 Months P3
Estimated Delivery
Monday, July 13th - Thursday, July 16th
Wet!
My tantalizing-resourceful-brain is waiting for these to arrive.
/buy
@spiralking It worked! Your order number is: makeshift-youthful-lager
/image makeshift youthful lager
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If history repeats itself, these things are going to be turning up in IRKs for years to come
/buy
@Bullet1979 It worked! Your order number is: flowery-droopy-wafer
/image flowery droopy wafer
In for 3, why not
In for 3. permanent-nasty-pudding
Will this work in my swimming pool?
@dalekjoe Constantly.
@mehcuda67 False. Only for ~3000 mAh at a time. Anyone know the current draw while the alarm is active?
/buy -q2
@dave It worked! Your order number is: lucid-pertinent-bushbaby
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@dave @mediocrebot That escalated quckly.
I’m due for a disaster.
/giphy disadvantaged-gainful-jasmine
/buy -q2
@wronkerville It worked! Your order number is: fluttering-keen-bucket
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Why can I only buy 3 SMH
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@tinamarie1974 just make two purchases of three for six
@OsamaBinLamaa tried that but thet are too smart for such a work around. It denied a second purchase
Where are the sensors? b/c having a domed lid seems like an idiotic style decision if the location is in that circular channel in the top.
@rishidan The electrodes are on the underside, so when water pools enough underneath the unit, it gets set off.
/buy -q2
@Frcal It worked! Your order number is: fuchsia-frankly-moon
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see…if ya had bought the simpli safe system yesterday you could have ordered the water alarm that would let you know the same thing…only the simpli safe would have dones it when you were AWAY from your home…
@fastharry not to mention they cost $30 if I remember correctly
@OsamaBinLamaa exactly…though it’s nice to have an alarm under a water heater, even when you are home, it’s even better to be aware of en emergency when you are not home
What’s with all the leaky people in Wyoming?
120dB seems really loud. Isn’t that significantly louder than most home alarms like smoke detectors? Is that too loud?
@eightyd You’ve never had your hot water heater fail, have you?
I’d want to hear it go off from another county if it meant I could stop it from destroying my flooring.
@yeppers You’ve never had your house get destroyed in a fire, have you?
120dB is enough to permanently damage your hearing immediately (or so I’ve “heard”). 95-100dB is enough for smoke alarms and what the leak frogs were, I think. I’d think as loud as a smoke alarm would be plenty.
@eightyd Thanks for the warning (seriously). I’ll be certain to wear hearing protection if (when) these go off, and I’ll pre-dampen (haha) the speaker a bit while wearing said hearing protection, to prevent harm to my pets.
Any guesses as to whether there is a low battery alert and or how long the batteries will last?
I ask because going into my attic is not fun
If this thing is floating, I’d venture a guess it’s too late…
In for 3
Obsessed-Sexy-Cup
No wifi (Internet) connected alert for away from home, no deal.
@RedOak If you have any internal camera just set it to alert you when it hears a noise. Problem solved!
@zachary so I have to add a security camera to my basement. Sounds like a Rube Goldberg “solution”.
@RedOak Welcome to the Internet of Things my friend. Welcome.
@zachary Actually, wifi-connected water alarms are available. You’re welcome.
@RedOak Yes and for $5 it should come with a clean up crew !
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Will it let me know when this is leaking^
Can I put one of these on a Roomba so it can patrol the house? Otherwise, isn’t it a bit like playing roulette where you have to place bets on what might leak? (And we’re limited to 3 guesses?)
@walarney Well guess number one - hot water heater as if that gives way you have a big mess - been there twice only fortunately once it was in the basement and none of my stuff was down there.
@walarney Next to the washer is a good guess. In my house, an unused basement shower is a prime target, because the only time it would get wet is if the septic tank is backing up.
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a) why do they make it look like water needs to drip on top of it to work?
b) why don’t they show where the sensor contacts are?
c) what is P3 on top of it mean?
@username Good questions. I want answers before I buy any.
@username P3 International is the name of the manufacturer.
Sold Out!!!
Service Master has been there friend several times.
Bummer. My Leak Frog needs the company.
My Leak Frog is a veteran trooper, alerting me twice for a toilet flood and once for a hot water heater flood.
But there are other areas in the home that need flood alerts, and two neighbors that still suffer from no-flood-alert-itus.
Bummer
Use this to tell your kids when it’s time to get out of the pool.
This ain’t a frog, no buy.
@Froggy Of course, since these are sold out nobody at meh gives a rat’s ass…