[56k warning] This is what happens when your house gets flooded...

[Sine Deviance]

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As some of you in #fragbu know, my house got flooded yesterday. The cold water line (sometimes called the ice line because they use the same type for ice machines in restaurants) ruptured yesterday and spewed water out for probably 2 or 3 hours before I got home and found it. There was about 4 inches of water all throughout the house. You can't really see the waterline in the pictures because they are very faint but essentially every piece of flooring in the house had to be ripped up last night and the restoration team has these air dehumidifier machines that have to run for three days. They release lots of heat so the temperature in the house is in the high 90's right now. Most of my furniture is toast and it just so happens that I had just come back from a roadtrip the day before yesterday and I hadn't unpacked my suitcase yet, it was laying on the floor and my digital camera and ipod were both in it, along with most of my clothes and my cellphone's charger, all that stuff is hosed. My desktop's tower was also sitting on the floor so that got hosed too. My acoustic guitar was in it's case but unfortunately the case was also laying on the floor and the water seeped into the cover so it's probably ruined as well. My electric and my amp are definitely fried.

The restoration team is saying that it's gonna take about two weeks until I can get new flooring put in and even longer before I can get my furniture replaced. My insurance is going to cover most of it but the adjuster said that a good bit of my furniture (mostly antiques my mom gave me) can't be valued which essentially makes them worthless to the insurance company.

My Xbox made it out in one piece as well as my TV and my laptop so at least I've got something to do in the hotel room I'll be staying in for the next two or three weeks.

Check your washer line.

[toniglandyl]

ouch, I feel bad for you. :(

I hope you'll recover most things.

[Matfei]

Your electric and amp are gone? :(

So sorry man, that sucks so freaking hard. Your computer too.

[Rambowjo]

You really are cursed :(

Hope you get things fixed.

[Big-Al]

i'm pleased you have insurance at least!

[Vitamin-Carrot]

We have had floods in the northern part of new zealand in the last couple of months due to some huge storm.

Best of luck dude

[rex]

Oh how we all love the sound of industrial dehumidifiers(we had only one in a closed off room and that was annoying enough)...

Well good luck with that and let's cross fingers that you won't get ripped off by the insurance.

[kiff]

damn... bummer...

[ilkman]

Ive had to fix water damages like that before, but only once did I come across anything covering the whole house. It is no fun to deal with which is probably pretty obvious.

Just make sure they check the walls for moisture and do a mold treatment. If the water was just along the floor then it is probably not going to be an issue. If the water line was higher up the wall and had to run down it then there is a very good chance of moisture in that area.

You've got some nice furniture though. Maybe there is a company that can restore those antiques if they're heavily damaged?

[Sine Deviance]

Ive had to fix water damages like that before, but only once did I come across anything covering the whole house. It is no fun to deal with which is probably pretty obvious.

Just make sure they check the walls for moisture and do a mold treatment. If the water was just along the floor then it is probably not going to be an issue. If the water line was higher up the wall and had to run down it then there is a very good chance of moisture in that area.

You've got some nice furniture though. Maybe there is a company that can restore those antiques if they're heavily damaged?

Unfortunately all of the drywall in the house has to be replaced. Every piece, excluding what's in the garage.

As far as the furniture goes, I'm sure I could have it restored but I just don't have the money and I seriously doubt the insurance will cover such a thing. I'm worried about the red leather couch more than anything, I really love that couch. The padding inside the leather got pretty wet.

[DMMD]

So sorry, dude. :(

[Jackal]

haha loser

[WaitForTheRain]

haha loser

Thats really not necessary

[Capt.Toilet]

Makes me glad I live on a hill. Let that **** flow on down and away from my stuff.

[Jacks:SmirkingRevenge]

haha loser

Reality bites.

But in all seriousness, that must be really rough ED, sounds like your home was just waiting for the worst possible time to spring a leak; like a bad joke.
As if flood insurance wasn't hard enough to claim and redeem, you can never really be sure of the extent of water damage to a buildings foundation after something like that.

I wish you the best of luck, to the opposite extreme of what life just handed you in getting everything back to normal.

[Sine Deviance]

Reality bites.

But in all seriousness, that must be really rough ED, sounds like your home was just waiting for the worst possible time to spring a leak; like a bad joke.
As if flood insurance wasn't hard enough to claim and redeem, you can never really be sure of the extent of water damage to a buildings foundation after something like that.

I wish you the best of luck, to the opposite extreme of what life just handed you in getting everything back to normal.

Well see, it's not flood insurance per-se. It's covered by Homeowner's. It was a flood, yes, but it originated from inside the house. Flood insurance is for floods that originate outside the home.

[Mr. UglyPants]

That sucks... alot.

[Angel_Mapper]

Just make sure they check the walls for moisture and do a mold treatment.I was just going to say that. That episode of Forensic Files scared the crap out of me as far as house mold is concerned. :y5:

[Plumb_Drumb]

Dude I know how you feel. We had a sewage backup on Sunday, and let me tell you that's fecking disgusting wading in poopy water with towels.
Even worse we couldn't flush a toilet or take a shower until the plumbers got here, and we had to wait because Monday was Labor day, lol.

It filled three rooms with the stuff.

Goldarn tree roots.

[DeeperShade]

Well, at least you're lucky enough that the flood seems to have washed a few dehumidifiers up into your house. Must've been a warehouse nearby.

[Azura]

If your cellar ends up being very humid (this can be bad for the rest of the house later) try dumping some seashells on the cellar floor. This apparently helps to reduce the overall humidity level.

[BillyBadAss]

If your cellar ends up being very humid (this can be bad for the rest of the house later) try dumping some seashells on the cellar floor. This apparently helps to reduce the overall humidity level.

Salt might work better or lots of baking soda.

[Kantham]

I saw that kind of **** at some guy's apartment I used to hang with. The water was flooding from a light bulb (open) in the ceiling, since it was the basement, all the water flooding from the 3RD floor went right down to the lowest at medium speed. The quantity was more the problem.

It was a long fight, I was there when it all began. From the main corridor you could do waves as there was 2 inch or so. What I don't understand is how comes that we didn't got electrified.

[Azura]

Salt might work better or lots of baking soda.

Dry rice should work too. However there must be something special about seashells that I haven't figured out yet. I was watching this program on tv where a whole lorry load was being poured into a cellar. Maybe they regulate the humidity instead of simply absorbing it.

It was a long fight, I was there when it all began. From the main corridor you could do waves as there was 2 inch or so. What I don't understand is how comes that we didn't got electrified.

I asked myself the same question once. This was while I was ****ing around inside a monitor with a screw driver.

[Rambowjo]

I asked myself the same question once. This was while I was ****ing around inside a monitor with a screw driver.

Residual-current device. (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Residual-current_device)

[Sine Deviance]

If your cellar ends up being very humid (this can be bad for the rest of the house later) try dumping some seashells on the cellar floor. This apparently helps to reduce the overall humidity level.

Luckily there's no cellar or basement. It's a one-story.

So anyways I got bad news today; apparently its going to be a minimum of two weeks and possibly a month before I can move back in. Insurance is going to cover my hotel expense, billed directly. So the next two weeks are going to be interesting.

[Jackal]

Welcome to Jack's Hotel! $200 a night and free drinks. Billed Directly!

[Steyr]

Damn man. Wish I could help. If you want someone to hang out with, I'll be in Asheville area 14th through the 16th. We can chill or something, get your mind off it.

[Sine Deviance]

Thanks man, might do that. Asheville is only about 2 and a half hours from here.

[Steyr]

Thanks man, might do that. Asheville is only about 2 and a half hours from here.

Damn. It's 3 and a half from me. Of course, I'm going camping with a bunch of hippies, and there will be techno and fire dancing and all kinds of other cool hippie stuff, so it's totally worth it. :rockon: You're welcome to come if you're into that kind of stuff too. Admission is only $10. It's the best ****ing $10 I ever spent in my entire life.

Edit, Whoops, I was wrong. It's actually a 4 hour drive for me. Still totally worth it though.