Waterfall chandelier

Two hours before our out-of-town Christmas guests showed up, I hear a drip-drip coming from the dining room. I walk in, looking at the cat water fountain. It looks fine. I then look at the chandelier. It's dripping water. Oh dear. I first run upstairs to try and find the source. Everything appears normal. Crap. I then run to the basement and turn off the power to the chandelier. By this time, J has moved the Christmas display out from under the water-logged chandelier.

I go upstairs again to try to locate the source of the water. It doesn't appear to be coming from the bathroom. My next suspicion is the water-filled baseboard heater pipes. I had been using a bleed valve (located roughly above the chandelier) to remove air from the heating pipes. I re-tightened the bleed valve and headed back downstairs. As a precaution I also turned the heat off, to reduce the water pressure.

It became clear that the chandelier was very, very wet. In fact, one of the glass ornaments hanging from chandelier was full of water. Fortunately the metal spring holding it up was quite strong. So, the chandelier had to come down. After about 20 minutes, we got to here:

Then I realized the entire chandelier was full of water and had to come apart. Ugh. So, then we get to here:

Then, here:

Two days later, the ceiling stayed dry and the chandelier went back up. The best guess we have is that I left the bleeder valve slightly open. Hopefully that is what happened. I really don't want to pay a plumber to rip our ceiling open.