Saturday, July 6, 2013

Flood Fiasco

So here are pictures of the whole thing....
my apologies, all of them are from our phones, it's what we had on hand.
The pipe that caused all the trouble, over a period of about 1 1/2 hours

Back Patio, standing next to sliding door.
The entire lower yard is flooded,
 and there next to the step it where the water got in

The water entering the house from the garage steps

The wet carpet, the cord is from the shopvac, 
as we were cleaning up while also making sure to document everything.

Inside the closet, carpet soaked, walls wet.

demolition, removal of all the wall/ sheet rock that got wet. 

Removal of closet and bedroom sheet rock


Knocking to find studs to take out the last parts of my bedroom walls that needed to go.

The living room, ready for mold treatment

Our bedroom/ closet, ready as well

Me, I was helping. we all wore masks because we did find mold.

Dad and I finishing up the closet sheet rocking

Living room, sheet rock

Sheet rock finished

Bedroom and closet, tapped and mudded.

Living room too.



Bedroom finished, and new paint color. 
Still a green, but much lighter it's called Restful

Painted next to the door it all matches

The new wood paneling, once Joseph and Dad were done.
It is now painted a "white" color, and brightens up the living room so much. 

I haven't taken the real "after" photos because we're still piecing it together. The insurance companies still haven't gotten back to us. We fall into a weird loophole: it's a flood, water from outside came inside. We live uphill so we don't have flood insurance, but if it had been water from inside our house it would have been covered under our insurance. So for us to get anything from insurance, our neighbors need to be found negligent, then their insurance would cover it. Shouldn't be too hard  to prove negligence considering that they are never ever home, and this is not the first time they've flooded us, but the first time it's come into the house. Our guess is that the insurance companies are still battling it out, both sides have investigated. But because we have to live in the house we had to fix it or continue to be miserable with our stuff everywhere except where you really need it. We had the carpets cleaned and fixed everything else.
So there you have it.

2 comments:

Ashley said...

A few years ago, my dad's pump broke while we were gone. The neighbors claimed it flooded their fire pit and ruined it even though there was absolutely NO evidence water was even there on our property yet it caused enough damage to ruin concrete on their side? They didn't have any pictures or anything! It took a couple years, but his insurance still ended up having to pay for it! I would be surprised if you guys don't get yours covered.

Anaise said...

Whew! What an adventure! Makes me tired thinking about it. I hope you get a positive resolution.