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A pipe to the waterheater burst...behind the shut-off valve. At least an hour of water running.:(
1 bedroom, 1 laundry room, hallway, closet, utility closet, and living room floors are damaged.
What a mess! Both boys had just come home from college, I'd just finished all their laundry and it was waiting to be put away....all soaked ($45 and 3 hours at the laundromat to redo).
Emergency after hours water removal company, huge fans and heaters and extractors running (sucking my electricity) for 5 days.
Thankfully only the waterheater closet drywall was damaged.
Could have been worse, one son at work, other son and I left house at 6:00 p.m., my husband happened to stop by the house at 7:00 p.m. on his way to meet us, he discovered wet floors.
The repair to the pipe is not covered by insur...but that was only $123.
Drying was $1900
We'll get our insurance report and first check to get new floors within a week.
Sigh....
and then I was cutting back the vinca that has overtaken my back yard and discovered I'd put my hand 4 times right by a copperhead!
iris lilies
6-2-16, 2:31pm
Ack! Water damage is terrible.
oh that's awful and the copperhead-eek!
House systems seem to implode every now and then. A few months back, I turned on the front hose and the water line under the house burst and shot water upwards for about an hour. I was by myself and could not find the tool to cut off the water at the street and the city wouldn't come out to help so everything got soaked. We were about three days without water while we searched for someone to replace the line at a reasonable price. Didn't file with insurance so just paid the $2500 bill.
I've had my mobile home for sale as I move into my RV. Had a couple of semi-serious lookers. As I was having the furniture moved out the of the mobile, the porch collapsed. No injuries, but at that point the park wouldn't have taken it, even for free. A nice real estate agent showing properties to an older gentleman came by today on an appointment I'd booked earlier and forgotten, and they bought it. Not for as much as they would have, but enough for me to say YES! The porch will be fixed on their dime now. Insurance would not cover it.
p.s. Poor copperhead! You probably scared it almost to death! (just kidding)
Teacher Terry
6-2-16, 4:51pm
So sorry you are having all those problems. So lucky you didn't get bit on top of everything else.
I've had my mobile home for sale as I move into my RV. Had a couple of semi-serious lookers. As I was having the furniture moved out the of the mobile, the porch collapsed. No injuries, but at that point the park wouldn't have taken it, even for free. A nice real estate agent showing properties to an older gentleman came by today on an appointment I'd booked earlier and forgotten, and they bought it. Not for as much as they would have, but enough for me to say YES! The porch will be fixed on their dime now. Insurance would not cover it.
shadowmoss - great news that your mobile home sold. Timing is everything!
Float On, sorry you had all that hassle. I have a co-worker who had the water line to his refrigerator burst twice. Amazingly his insurance covered the damage, and they ended up retiling the floor (twice) and getting a new refrigerator after the second time so it all looked better than ever.
Update:
Back story: I did all the flex tube duct work under our house 14 years ago after a field rat got into it and died. We had paid a company to replace all duct work...and then it happened again so I did it and we paid someone to seal up all the little holes in the crawl space foundation where the little field rats got it (they really are pretty - soft white and light brown).
This water leak caused one of the flex tubes to fill with water and break loose. I was prepared to go buy a new one ($30 at Lowes) and do it myself but my husband said "we need someone bonded and insured since it's an insurance claim". So we had someone come out...who first hooked it up to the wrong one (he couldn't see the light pouring through the correct one?), then he left trash from under the house, across the front yard, to a pile in the drive way..and charged $250! Not to mention his invoice was not something we could turn in to insurance. After a phone call he admitted he did a rushed and shoddy job. He came back out yesterday to fix it and tore up our check to "make it right"...we still had to go back under and rearrange it, he had taped the duct tube to a water pipe!
And I am still waiting on insurance so I can start ordering floors.
Float On - goodness, what an unpleasant experience! And then that contractor to top it all off. Idiot! You seem to be handling everything so well, so calm. I hope your home is back to normal soon. Maybe you can treat yourself to something special when everything is done to reward yourself for riding this out.
Float On - goodness, what an unpleasant experience! And then that contractor to top it all off. Idiot! You seem to be handling everything so well, so calm. I hope your home is back to normal soon. Maybe you can treat yourself to something special when everything is done to reward yourself for riding this out.
Thank you. I'm trying to be calm, for someone who likes for everything to have it's place; living with everything piled in the living room is getting old. I'm certainly getting in the mood to do another purge!!
To add to the trama. Our insurance agent passed away young around Christmas time. The office has lost some good people in the transition to a new agent and they have completely lost the personal touch...I'm now just a number not a name to the new staff.
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