We had some very special visitors at our house 2 weeks ago: my mom, SIL (Nicki), and nieces, Evelyn and Josephine, came for a visit. It was fun. Chaos. But the good kind of chaos. UNTIL - the bad kind of chaos happened. I was home alone one evening w/ 4 of the 5 kiddos when I went to do a load of laundry (on our first floor) and noticed water dripping from our ceiling. I ran upstairs and squished through the already wet carpets to find the boy's bathroom filled w/ water. I called my wonderful neighbors over who turned the water off and quickly tried to sop up the water.
To make a long story short, we have a super big mess. 3 stories worth of damage. The carpeting upstairs in the hallway, down the stairs, and in Owen and Emmett's bedroom is being replaced. All the walls are being repainted. The baseboards are being replaced and repainted - and that's just the first floor. The main floor is an even bigger mess. New flooring in the laundry room, garage entryway, closets, and kitchen. All of these ares and our family room is being repainted. Baseboards replaced. Ceiling on the whole first floor is being repainted. New ceiling in the entry way and laundry room. New closet doors x 2. New light fixture. Sheet rock and dry wall replacement. The basement is getting all new carpeting, new ceiling, new baseboards, and it's being painted. OH - and we are getting a new furnace. Insurance is covering all of this. Thank goodness. But, we're hoping to do some upgrades since their replacing the flooring anyway - like w/ hardwoods and not vinyl. It's going to be a major project. It happened 3 weeks ago, and we still haven't chosen a contractor. We're going to look at flooring tomorrow. I'm hoping it's all done by October....
So, we had a 2 year old, 3 year old, 5 year old, 6 year old, 9 year old, and 4 adults in my house w/ 20+ humidifiers set up by a water removal company to dry up our house for 4 days! 2 of the bedrooms were unusable. People were in and out of our house all day long (the water removal company came out on the day of the flood at 11 PM!). I was on the phone constantly w/ contractors, insurance, etc. It truly was chaos. There are photos posted of the disaster below.
3 comments:
Quite a fiasco! Only you could handle it with such finesse with a houseful of visitors!!! Do you have a $1,000 deductible? Well worth all the improvements your house will have when this is all said and done with!!
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wow. sorry you had to go through this, but i hope the improved finishes make you more comfortable in the future. i like the new blog, by the way.
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