The good..... (don't you practically hear harps when seeing this 1/2 of the kitchen) (I do...LOL)
The bad... um...where is that stuff going to go?
The ugly...um...yea.....
Ahhhh....the good
The bad........
The Ugly.....
What are those marks on the carpet.... well.... it's water..... hum....that's pretty ugly huh.....
but just wait....there's ugly, uglier...and ugliest....you pick what you think....
picture below is my beloved butler's pantry :( water is underneath it....
So...the gist of what happened is something went very wrong with the plumbing in the master bathroom, meaning the water was running full force into the room for several hours.... it went from the toilet room, to the master closet, to the rest of master bathroom, to the master bedroom, to the hallway, down the room from there, in another closet, into the formal living room, into the powder room, into the living room, into the dining room and butler's pantry and I discovered the water when coming into the kitchen and slipping on the floor.... and tracked down the culprit..... SO we called a water damage/remediation company and they came out (it happened on Tuesday) they were there from 4:00 pm to 1:30 am…. they started with a super water sucker (I had been sucking water with my carpet cleaner, bucket after bucket after bucket, that didn't even touch it - you wouldn't believe how much water there was). They took all the base boards off – drilled holes in the walls every 12 inches for the water to drain out of the walls, fans/dehumidifiers… you name it we have it going on. :( my beautiful new home..... 4 days before disaster.... (how's that for dramatic?)
Each of the yellow tubes from the fans go into a hole in the wall (not all the holes in the walls get one though..ha) The clear pads are sucking water out of the hardwood floors or blowing it to try to dry it out, and the FUNNY is that the fans are blowing so hard they blew a roll of toilet paper right off the roll!! HA!!
The sunshine in the storm of this is that I was home and discovered it before it had been all day, ALSO that it wasn't upstairs coming downstairs and damaging both up and down. We don't know how much damage has happened yet, the hardwoods are a 50/50 chance to save but they are already buckling and separating....so.... ??? it will take 4-5 days to completely dry out and before the equipment is gone and we can start again.....
In spite of it all.... OHHHH we love love love this house, it is everything we hoped and more! We moved upstairs until the "dust" (aka water) settles and my house doesn't sound like an air plane.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QidSY_JSaQk&feature=youtu.be
1 comment:
Oh no!! I would be crying...oh wait, that would add to the water!! glad you caught it quick. I can't wait to see pics when you get unpacked! Yes, you have too much stuff!
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