Saturday, February 19, 2011
DeMoLiTiOn!
The Washing Machine overflowed for two hours on Sept. 23, 2010. Hour by hour the water damage got worse and worse until almost every room in the down stairs was effected. I think I got my first gray hair from this experience!
What used to be our living room and Office. The kids thought it was great to jump on the puffed up carpets. Serv Pro tried to save the carpets by pulling out the padding and blowing under to dry the sub floor and carpets out.
Preslee's room was effected the most. Everything had to come out of there. Talk about traumatic for a 10 year old!
After about four days of trying to dry out the bathrooms, the tile had to be ripped out. Talk about a dirty nasty job. The guys who did it were sweating like dirty pigs when they were done!
After Dustin got home from his hunting trip, having no idea what had happened while he was gone, he got to work tearing out the rest of everything so he could get started on restoring our home. The only good thing about not having my husband home when this stinky stuff happened is that I made all the decisions!
This was our dining room table for a few weeks while we were restoring. I did most of my cooking on a skillet my Mother in Law loaned me, and learned many new amazing uses for a rice cooker. I am not a fan NASTY microwave food so I still tried tried to cook for my family as much as possible.
Deacon was Dustin's right hand man in this. Here they are prepping the floor for WOOD!
When you don't have any furniture to jump on a big pile of boxes will do just fine! Stay tuned for pictures of our new and improved house!!!
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4 comments:
Rofl... I wish we lived closer together, too, D, because our husbands could help each other... we have identical projects going on right now. Noah's in the LR putting down hardwood as we speak. The only difference is the neat pile of boxes...we did recycled maple from old gym flooring, so we have piles and piles not neat stacks of boxes. They're neat piles, but huge garagefull piles.
Oh, yeah, I should mention that this is my google account, so it's Heather talking to you. I always forget that, and I like to google somewhat anonymously....
Now that sounds like a project. Thanks for looking!!!
Oh, what a horrible experience! I'm so sorry you've had to go through this, but I can't wait to see your new floors. I bet they'll look awesome! Glad you're back to blogging!
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