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    Mysterious Puddles.

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    Manok101Manok101 Posts: 302 Member
    in The Sims 3 General Discussion
    I hadn't played this sim in awhile so I don't know whats going on here, my sim has mopped up twice and the puddle in the bathroom next to a window keeps growing. Does anyone know what in the world is causing this?

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      7hir7een7hir7een Posts: 145 New Member
      edited June 2009
      Something is probably broken in the bathroom?
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      WolfoftheNyghtWolfoftheNyght Posts: 313 Member
      edited June 2009
      Ghost of a drowned sim? Leaky faucet? Stopped up toilet?
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      HelBelleHelBelle Posts: 1,044 Member
      edited June 2009
      Something is probably broken... have a click around on your shower, bath, toilet, sink etc. then either fix it yourself or call a repairman to do it for you!
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      AraninceAranince Posts: 495 New Member
      edited June 2009
      The shower is leaking? You can fix that
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      Manok101Manok101 Posts: 302 Member
      edited June 2009
      There is a new puddle in the bedroom also near the window. None of the bathroom stuff needs fixing. How can I tell if its a ghost?
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      AndrewDBarkerAndrewDBarker Posts: 282 New Member
      edited June 2009
      Manok101 wrote:
      There is a new puddle in the bedroom also near the window. None of the bathroom stuff needs fixing. How can I tell if its a ghost?


      You know who you have to call.. :lol:
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      FudgeleyFudgeley Posts: 3 New Member
      edited June 2009
      i HAVE THIS PROBLEM TOO? wHO DO WE CALL?
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      Starmile26Starmile26 Posts: 28 New Member
      edited June 2009
      Grah You If you don't get that reference then you don't deserve the number :P
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      SimmervilleSimmerville Posts: 11,754 Member
      edited June 2009
      Same happened in my game. And when I clicked the shower, toilet or sink, non of them had the option to be repaired or unclogged etc. I think I replaced the shower to fix it, and I don't know for sure what caused it - it was under the window in my house, too ;-).
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      WaterWitchWaterWitch Posts: 7 New Member
      edited June 2009
      I'm having a different puddle problem. There was a puddle in the house that the Sims couldn't seem to reach to clean up, then they dried up on their own. However, my neat Sim still seems to sense a puddle. He can't get to it to mop it up and it drives him crazy, it's all he wants to do, all day. I've gone so far as to move ALL the furniture out of the house to see if we can find this puddle, and no luck.

      Any ideas?
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      AliCatRAliCatR Posts: 17 New Member
      edited June 2009
      Don't know if this will help, but I had a random puddle that would show up in the middle of the room for no apparent reason, and I finally figured out it was the toddler potty overflowing...weird that the puddle showed up nowhere near the potty, but that was it!
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      geordiescarlettgeordiescarlett Posts: 280 Member
      edited June 2009
      I had the same problem, so I bought all new bathroom furniture and it stopped...what is/was it?
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      Gouka989Gouka989 Posts: 976 New Member
      edited June 2009
      Well, in my experience, it's caused by ghosts, but I would think you'd see them wandering about for sure. I know there was one place I moved into that turned out to be haunted, and there were puddles appearing everywhere. But I also would see the ghosts.

      So of course, who you gonna call??? :twisted:

      Funny thing is though, I did have the repo guy show up at my door and he offered to 'take care of the problem'. And he did by vacuuming up the ghosts headstones with his zap gun.
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      toovivacious4utoovivacious4u Posts: 105 New Member
      edited June 2009
      AliCatR wrote:
      Don't know if this will help, but I had a random puddle that would show up in the middle of the room for no apparent reason, and I finally figured out it was the toddler potty overflowing...weird that the puddle showed up nowhere near the potty, but that was it!

      I had this also and spent a good while convinced my poorly constructed roof was leaking! Well, the puddles were showing up right below the roof line, you know. :oops:

      After discovering that it was indeed sewage from a potty chair, I found myself wishing that I'd just never figured it out! (just...ewww)
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      HerMajesty626HerMajesty626 Posts: 36 New Member
      edited June 2009
      WaterWitch wrote:
      I'm having a different puddle problem. There was a puddle in the house that the Sims couldn't seem to reach to clean up, then they dried up on their own. However, my neat Sim still seems to sense a puddle. He can't get to it to mop it up and it drives him crazy, it's all he wants to do, all day. I've gone so far as to move ALL the furniture out of the house to see if we can find this puddle, and no luck.

      Any ideas?

      try hiring a maid and see if he/she can find it
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      KolbyKolby Posts: 1,126 Member
      edited June 2009
      I had this exact same problem as well. It is not a ghost, and nothing is broken in the bathroom.

      I was playing my Sim, and whenever I would visit the Frio household, the downstairs bathroom kept filling up with puddles if they tried to mop them up.

      I switched households to play the Frio's, and deleted all their plumbing in that bathroom. Since then it hasn't happened. Nothing was broken though, and I'm positive.
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      Pegan29Pegan29 Posts: 20 Member
      edited June 2009
      I had exactly the same problem in the bathroom. I took my bathroom stuff one at a time and put them in the back yard. It was the shower leaking. But nothing showed when I clicked on it, like it needed to be repaired or anything. So I bot a new shower and that fixed it.
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      cynful481cynful481 Posts: 37 New Member
      edited June 2009
      I think I know the answer. According to the guide after housewholed items have broken so many times they can no longer be fixed(like in past games) only replaced. The less times that an item breaks the longier it will last. If one of your sims is handy have them make the item unbreakable this saves time and money. Hope this helps. :mrgreen: 8)
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      WaterWitchWaterWitch Posts: 7 New Member
      edited June 2009
      HerMajesty626 wrote:
      WaterWitch wrote:
      I'm having a different puddle problem. There was a puddle in the house that the Sims couldn't seem to reach to clean up, then they dried up on their own. However, my neat Sim still seems to sense a puddle. He can't get to it to mop it up and it drives him crazy, it's all he wants to do, all day. I've gone so far as to move ALL the furniture out of the house to see if we can find this puddle, and no luck.

      Any ideas?

      try hiring a maid and see if he/she can find it


      Oh, that was a good suggestion. I got too impatient/annoyed, though, last night & so my sims just moved ::laugh:: If only it was that easy in real life.
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      scarletraven28scarletraven28 Posts: 590 Member
      edited June 2009
      Fudgeley wrote:
      i HAVE THIS PROBLEM TOO? wHO DO WE CALL?

      There's something strange.. in the neighborhood, who ya gonna call ________________! :D
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      BusterJimmyDaisyBusterJimmyDaisy Posts: 172 New Member
      edited June 2009
      WaterWitch wrote:
      I'm having a different puddle problem. There was a puddle in the house that the Sims couldn't seem to reach to clean up, then they dried up on their own. However, my neat Sim still seems to sense a puddle. He can't get to it to mop it up and it drives him crazy, it's all he wants to do, all day. I've gone so far as to move ALL the furniture out of the house to see if we can find this puddle, and no luck.

      Any ideas?
      Lol forsome reason that cracked me up. I can imagine a sim standing in an empty house complaining about a puddle that's not even there. :lol:
      ANYWAYS...
      I'm pretty sure it's another glitch. Seriously, we need a patch.
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      dianddradianddra Posts: 7 New Member
      edited September 2009
      i have an invisible puddle that no sim can clean up not even a maid, they just constantly complain that they can't get to the invisible puddle. I am so fed up I'm just not going to play the game anymore.
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      debra1970pdebra1970p Posts: 4,652 Member
      edited September 2009
      Starmile26 wrote:
      Grah You If you don't get that reference then you don't deserve the number :P

      :lol::lol:
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      TinwhistlerTinwhistler Posts: 217 New Member
      edited September 2009
      A toddler?
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      Blackavar79Blackavar79 Posts: 2 New Member
      edited February 2011
      I'm having a different puddle problem. There was a puddle in the house that the Sims couldn't seem to reach to clean up, then they dried up on their own. However, my neat Sim still seems to sense a puddle. He can't get to it to mop it up and it drives him crazy, it's all he wants to do, all day. I've gone so far as to move ALL the furniture out of the house to see if we can find this puddle, and no luck.

      Any ideas?

      I had this problem as well ended up moving the sim around the house telling him to clean and watching the direction he was facing. He kept facing the square at the end of the stairs. I had him go upstairs and removed the stairs, I re-floored where the stairs were and had him clean again. He was able to reach the puddle which was evidently over the stairs. I still couldnt see it in game but he was able to mop it up.
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