Some tips
Tuesday 17 March 2009 - Filed under General
- When you hear a funny noise in the middle of the night, don’t just shrug and go back to sleep.
- When you think you’re listening to a really wild early morning rain storm that goes on for hours, make sure it’s actually raining.
- Don’t think your dogs are like Lassie, and will let you know if something is amiss. Just because they bark at plastic bags in the street and small children doesn’t mean they won’t snore through a pipe bursting and flooding three floors.
- Don’t assume that because you spent hours with a sponge and a bucket, and everything looks dry, that your insurance company’s clean up crew won’t tell you it’s worse than it looks
- When the insurance company tells you the clean up crew will poke some holes in your wall and set up some fans, expect the same conditions you would get if you were doing a full fledged remodel.
- Don’t assume you’ve seen the worst of the demolition, when, after the first day, they tell you they need to come back and do more tomorrow.
Little bit of standing water on the second story bathroom where the pipe burst doesn’t look so bad.
The kitchen ceiling below wasn’t so lucky.
Kitchen contents pretty well flooded as the water made its way down to cover the basement in 2 inches of water.
Serious business demolition in progress.
Silver lining, I now have access to fix those stupid ugly can lights.
2009-03-17 » megan
17 March 2009 @ 7:09 am
Holy crap! I heard you had installed an indoor water feature, but this is just over the top. Seriously, I’m pretty sure it’s in the contract that the dogs are supposed to tell you when your house goes all Katrina like this.
Just keep reminding yourself of all the things you can fix now that you might have put off before. Yeah. Right.
17 March 2009 @ 7:21 am
Oh my gosh! That is awful, I’m so sorry that happened, but like you said now you can fix those lights and anything else you might not like!
17 March 2009 @ 7:37 am
Son of a…
17 March 2009 @ 12:18 pm
Awww crap that bites
I hope the repairs go quickly
17 March 2009 @ 12:57 pm
Oh, sorry.
17 March 2009 @ 3:16 pm
Megan I am so, so sorry that this has happened!! Sending my best cyber vibes that this is all fixed quickly and well!
17 March 2009 @ 10:24 pm
Holy @#($)(*! Your beautiful bathroom! Your amazing kitchen! How did it happen? What a nightmare! I’m so, so sorry. Oh man, and on top of your crazy work schedule too. Can they put it all back right, or even better? I hope this doesn’t do anything to dent your plant budget! Super bummed on your behalf. I can’t believe you managed to make that funny. Dogs! Where were you? Zzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzz
18 March 2009 @ 7:00 am
Holy shit! Hope everything turns out okay.
24 March 2009 @ 9:39 am
Oh my god!!! That’s so horrifying! I’m so sorry!