Thursday Tid Bits

Well most of the plywood is off the walls and things are as bad as we thought.

Here are some pictures of what we found.

Big voids where cement is supposed to be. This is going to be a pricey renovation. We have a construction company coming to take a look to see if it is even fixable.

Everybody have a wonderful evening.

God bless.

It Never Rains But It Pours

No, it isn't raining here again. Thank you Lord.

We knew after the flooded basement that the cost of repairs was going to be high. We have the money so that is not a problem.

The problem is in how the previous owner and his builder took short cuts. Nothing like shoddy workmanship to get Harvey riled up!!

We removed 2' of drywall in the library/office/bedroom and Harvey noticed something strange. The wood underneath seemed to be rotting in the closet. When he managed to pull the wood off the wall he found an area where the wall cement did not come all the way down to the floor. Hmmm, after researching on the internet he figured he could fix that small space.

The next day we removed the wall board in the man cave and Harvey noticed something very strange. The plywood under the wall board was rotting....

All of a sudden I heard some slamming downstairs (I was up doing a bit of decluttering, nothing like a flooded basement to get a person cleaning things out).

"Jackie, come down here right now." Harvey called. I could tell from his voice he was getting frustrated and very angry.

I went down and Harvey told me to watch. He stuck his pry bar in the bottom portion near the floor where some rotting was occurring. Well that pry bar slid right in like a knife through butter, and what came out was dirt. Seems like there are many places where the floors and walls don't meet or at least don't seal.

Since we have never had water in the portion of basement that flooded before, the rotting must have started when the previous owner had the house.

Now all the bottom plywood has had the nails removed (there were nails pounded in every 4") and tomorrow we remove it, clean the dirt and mud away. Both of us fear that there will be major construction to get the floors and walls to meet and seal. We even wonder if any of the concrete places in town will be able to fix this mess.

The one good thing is we found the problem before it got worse or we tried to sell the place.

I will post pictures of what we find tomorrow. Keep your fingers crossed for us.

Everybody have a wonderful evening.

God bless.

Pictures Of Our Flood

To start this post off let me say we have the water out of our basement and no new water seems to be arriving. We are getting rain off and on, but nothing like what arrived Sunday evening.

Here are some pictures of the flooding around town.

There were areas that were worse, but for some reason I could not download the pictures. I think you can get the idea though.

These are pictures of our basement.

Can you see the beginnings of our indoor swimming pool?

Blogger is acting strangely for me tonight. It is taking forever to upload pictures, and keeps telling me there is a problem publishing or saving. I will post more pictures tomorrow when things are perhaps a bit better.

I am still taking pictures for Disaster insurance as it is doubtful that our regular insurance will pay anything. Even enough to replace the carpeting in both rooms or to replace some of the electronics would be appreciated. Though we did do up a budget this year to renovate the room with the funky red and black carpet.

Kris is making another trip to the dentist tomorrow. It seems that he is in a great deal of pain from his extraction last week. I have told him to phone us (now that our phone is working...that went crazy after the storm as well) after he has seen the dentist. Hopefully it is nothing serious.

Everybody have a wonderful evening.

God bless.