Posted by RayP(MI) on January 24, 2009 at 18:58:34 from (207.241.137.116):
Just got back from a flying trip to Charlotte, (MI). Wife's parents passed a couple years back, and family has been slowly cleaning and distributing things from the family home. Family of 7 children, wife the oldest. Large 7 bed - 2 bath, two story plus full basement - farm home. Remodeled and enlarged about 30 years ago, and in nice shape. The hot water line to upstairs bathroom sink came disconnected. Soldered copper pipe at shutoff valve. Hot water ran for don't know how long. Soaking thru ceiling of first story in two rooms, flooding dining room, kitchen, and living room. Water an inch deep on kitchen, dining room floors. Water was at least 4 feet deep in basement. Flooding sump pump out, furnace, water heater, floating freezers, and about everything in basement. Through it all, the deep well jet pump kept running, even when it was under water. Steam is causing condensation in two of the four upstairs bedrooms, ceilings and walls. As well as most of the downstairs rooms. Ceiling of lower floor, and insulation is soaked, leaking on the seams of the plaster board. At least two rooms will have to have new floors, maybe more. Carpeting replaced in others. Lots of drywalling in several rooms will have to be replaced. Fortunately, the wasll were painted with good latex paint, and rooms with condensation may be able to be repainted. Worst thing will be moisture inside walls ceilings, insulation. Hopefully they can pull the water out with dehydrators before mold sets in. When we left, the restoration guys had 2 gasoline pumps pumping out the basement, and were hooking up the truck mounted vacuum to try to dry out some of the lesser soaked carpeting. Oh, and temps are in the single digits tonite, teens all day. There's going to be a heck of a restoration bill for this! Hope the insurance is up to this. Family was cleaning it out to sell the house. Brother from Nashville, TN just happened to be visiting this weekend, others came in from across the state. All the family was there except two sis-in-laws. If there was a bright spot in all this, the restoration foreman commented that it was nice to work with a family that was laughing and getting along. When he deals with disasters like this, apparently he runs into a lot of screaming, crying, fighting, etc. Guess I married into a special family!
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