Wednesday, July 6, 2011

Wet Basement Stinks!!!

Last night Nat went down to work on her sewing machine in her 3/4 of the basement. She said the carpet felt wet.
Well, after pulling it up we found a soaking wet mess of a pad and wall.
I spent the night pulling up carpet and setting up fans. Scrubbing the pad and carpet back, sucking up water with a small wet vac (our green machine died).
Today I spent the day pulling up more water and cleaning.
I also decided since I had the day home to fix our tube faucet upstairs that was leaking. It was totally unrelated to the water down stairs. After trips to Lowe's and Home depot with no success I went to Standard plumbing to get the parts. They did not have them as well but the kid behind the counter said to go to M1 Specialists. I walked in and showed them what I wanted. He looked at it for a second, looked in a book then the computer and 3 minutes later came back from the warehouse with the perfect parts.
So the tub is fixed. The water is not coming in any more so I have no idea where we flooded from. The pad, part of the sheet rock, and the baseboards are all out in the trash.
The smell is...how did Nat put it..."Not hitting smack in your face almost knocking you out when you walk in."
Now on to getting a machine, then deodorizing and cleaning. Replacing the carpet Pad I threw out, cutting more sheet rock away to make sure we got all the stinky stuff, putting up new sheet rock, taping sanding then painting.
Just what I wanted...a summer project.

I am grateful we caught it when we did before too much more damage happened. Also grateful for a 3 year old assistant that knows how to use pillars on tub handles. I drew the line when she wanted to use the razor blade to cut the wall like daddy.

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