We woke up conference Sunday morning at 9:30 to Chase coming into our room and saying "there's water every where!!!" Matt and I jumped out of bed and ran to the kitchen. Water was spewing out of the bottom of the dishwasher. There was water all over the kitchen floor, half into the dining room, all through the mudroom, pantry and halfway in the laundry room. We went downstairs and the ceiling was pouring rain in the kitchenette and theater room! Parts of the ceiling were already falling in. The couches were soaked with water. The cup holders were overflowing with water. I called Katie B to see if her husband was home because he's a plumber. He wasn't home but she showed up 20 minutes later with fans and another shop vac. Luckily Matt figured out how to shut the water off. We started sucking up the water upstairs first. I immediately called Mylissa and started crying. I kept saying "it's ruined!!!" She told me to call the insurance right away and start the process. This wasn't a job for us to tackle because there was so much damage. Then I called Jen and she came right over. Mylissa called Mom and Dad and they headed up. We sucked up the water upstairs but then it kept coming out from underneath the island. We had a couple of shop vacs going downstairs. We had emptied them each four times by the time the disaster crew showed up. They sucked up an additional 22 galloons. They couldn't believe how much water we had sucked up so quickly. We were so blessed to have such amazing help!!!
Some of the cabinets in the kitchen were already splitting and swollen. It made me cry to see my beautiful kitchen cabinets damaged by the water.
Water was underneath the speakers at the front of the theater. Water was pouring out of the projector. Bridger's iPad was almost submerged in water that had called on the couch cushion. The TV remotes were wet and the xbox controllers were wet.
Water leaked into the kitchenette and theater room cabinets. We took everything out as quickly as possible. We were throwing things into baskets.
Water leaked from the upstairs down through the sports court. Luckily we don't have a finished floor so it was just the concrete that got wet. We didn't have too much cleaning up in the sports court. Water even leaked into the cold storage room. Luckily all we had to do was suck up the water. We didn't have to move everything out. The water leaked in down the walls.
After the disaster company got the rest of the water cleaned up, they started with the fans and the dehumidifier. The goal was to keep the damaged areas at 100 degrees to try to dry up things. The main thing was to heat the floor boards. Luckily after four days of a crazy hot house, they turned them off and felt like the floor board was ok. Luckily we did tile floor and not hard wood floors. The tile floor never cracked so we think we're ok. The crew came in the next day on Monday and started to tear out everything. They ripped out everything in the kitchenette and theater room down to the framing.
While they were taking things out, they found black mold around the kitchenette sink and dishwasher. Our awesome plumber didn't do another right and it looks like it's been slowing leaking there! I don't have one nice thing to say about our plumber!!!!! The insurance and another plumber came out and looked at the dishwasher. They agreed that he didn't put the parts on correctly and that's why it came apart. They were surprised that it had lasted this long. But of course it's one week after our year mark so it's not covered under our warranty with our builder.
They moved everything into the sports court room. It's nice to have that space but now the boys can't use it to practice. We're hoping that they can save the cabinets.
The disaster crew put up a plastic wall separating the family room from the disaster area. We're hoping it will help to keep it semi contained. We joke that our house looks like a haunted house.
The insulation upstairs behind my cabinets got wet. Instead of ripping out the cabinets they cut holes in the sheet rocks to try to dry out the insulation.
Sweet Tiff and her mom brought us a delicious dinner a couple of days later. I loved her card! I was without a dishwasher for a couple of weeks. The sink was taken apart so I didn't have that for almost a week. Luckily we used the laundry room sink to wash dishes. I had cabinet drawers and kitchen stuff scattered all through the house. I felt like we were living in chaos for a few weeks.
I think they ended up with 26 fans and 2 big dehumidifiers.
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