The Flood

So, Tuesday we had just had brand new carpet put into the bedrooms and finished the plumbing so that it would be ready for the final inspection on Wednesday morning.  I dropped Bryce off at school at 8:00 on Wednesday morning and returned home to find that the new house had flooded overnight. Mike rushed right home from work...and we all frantically vacuumed and whiped up the water.

I wish I had pictures of the water, however, it was just too stressful to even think about taking pictures at that time. However, we did call a restoration company and they came to our rescue right away.  Here is a picture of my upstairs office being dried by these enormous fans we had all over the house.

The biggest concern for us is the upstairs hardwood floor.

I told Mike that it looks like our poor house is on

"Life Support"!

This is crazy!  They taped all these pads down on the floor with all these long air tubes hooked to them to try and save the floor.  It stayed like this overnight last night.

Last night they closed up the house with several of those big fans

 blowing warm air throughout every room of the house overnight.

Early this morning I got up and walked downstairs to find that they had also wripped
out the sheetrock in our basement and had fans blowing there all night as well.

And here are the stairs after they ripped out the carpet. 

Hopefully we wont have to replace the wall that they stair case is connected to.

Cross your fingers!

So, basically the whole house was flooded, due to a technical glitch in the plumbing...(plumber to remain un-named). The top floor flooded and was creeping into the newly carpeted bedrooms about 1/4 of the way in.

But the water seeped thru the entire top floor and completely flooded the entire newly carpeted downstairs bedrooms and basement area.  We will have to redo the basement rooms and that will definately put us back.  However, we may get our main basement floor carpeted now if all goes well. 

 We may just do the work ourselves....ugh!

So, I guess you just never know what is going to happen when you take on a big project like this. 

My mother in law and I just hugged eachother and cried as we tried to figure out what to do next.

Luckily Mom discovered that the flood insurance on the construction loan expired on November 1st.

In just 4 more days!!!

My father in law looked like he had just lost his best friend for a few hours and then he was back at it again.

Working his tail off!  Love that Man!