Ever have one of those life moments that makes you remember a date, well that date was December 17, 2020 for me. I had set a beautiful table for dinner, cracked open a nice bottle of wine and was enjoying the evening in front of the television when I heard my husband begin yelling from downstairs. Something about water….spilling down the light fixture and coming out of the ceiling. As I began to process what I was hearing, he was already upstairs looking for the source of the flooding waters.
There are many reasons to adore having the laundry room on the second level of the home, nearest to the bedrooms…there are also a couple reasons to reconsider that adoration. Water mishaps ranking highest on that list. In this instance, the washing machine drain hose drained a load of dirty towel water into the floor.
In all honesty, we were lucky. When I think about the possibility of us not being aware of the flood, I cringe. Simply being upstairs watching tv together could have entirely changed the damage we had from manageable to catastrophic.
Did I mention it was bad? It was. We got as much as we could up AS FAST as we could but there is only so much you can do when the water is between the floor joists.
In the midst of being completely stressed out and exhausted, we decided that we could look at the flood as just another crap storm of 2020 OR we could look at this an opportunity to do some renovations. You know those lemons….I can make some dang good lemonade…and so began a three month long journey to get our house back.
Stay tuned! In my next blog…I’ll detail everything we went through from contacting the insurance company to dealing with repairmen. We learned so much.
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