The water heater decided (2 days before we were going to replace it) to leak. All over our basement.
Friday was spent moving all of our things being stored downstairs (in plastic, thankfully) to the newly cleaned out garage. I swear, we parked our cars in there for 2 days before it got filled back up with crap!
Thankfully we have "connections". My sister-in-law works for a place that specializes in flood and water damage restoration, so by 8:15am they were here sucking the water out of the carpet.
Thankfully we had another connection...my brother-in-law was sending his friend over to look at the water heater to make sure we needed a new one before it broke (we did, it was 15 years old), so he also got to install the new one we bought.
Our other connection is my dad, who works somewhere that water heaters are sold, so we got a discount.
Thankfully we have insurance, because it's a $2500 cleanup process, at least.
Blessings in disguise? 1) I get to go through all the crap that was in the basement and decide on what i really need to keep and what can be thrown away. 2) the 2 huge dehumidifiers and 7 fans in the basement are loud enough to put my son to sleep when nothing else will. 3) water ruined the vinyl in the basement bathroom that we intended to get rid of anyway, now it's one less step. (the water clean-up people actually pulled it all up!) 3.5) insurance may pay to replace that floor! 4) all of the electronics (they are safe) are away from the wall and we can "organize" all the cords and possibly get an outlet put in the wall instead of having everything hanging from the ceiling 5) we have a brand new water heater, and can put that in the notes when we sell the house in a couple years. 6) WE HAVE HOT WATER!!!!!!!!!
The downside is that, because of the dehumidifiers and fans running, sucking all of our power, we are unable to use the stove/oven, microwave, dishwasher, or washer and dryer until everything is SUPER dry. Hopefully that's soon, because it's turkey sandwiches and cereal until then!
2 comments:
Yikes!
I am glad you have hot water though! That is a blessing!
The GREAT news is that it wasn't the sewage backing up. Our last house had a faulty valve (it was supposed to keep things from outside the house coming back in, but it broke and kept things from leaving) that resulted in some nasty backup in the basement. Thankfully it was mostly laundry water... mostly.
Just one more headache you didn't need. Thank goodness for those connections.
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