And It's A Hard, And It's A Hard, And It's A Hard Raaaaaain's A Gonna Fall...
Friday night's downpour led directly to Saturday's pulling up of the basement carpet, removal of saturated-with-floodwater padding (aka "cushion"), and Shop-Vac'ing of standing water. With fan & dehumidifier running o'ernight, this morning saw the spreading back out of the wet (but hopefully salvageable) carpet. Now, more fan & dehumidifier while I'm in the office. Then, this evening should be the roll-the-newly-re-dried-carpet-back-up-and-mop-the-cement-underneath-with-bleach-water stage. This will be followed by more fan & dehumidifier, and ultimately by installation of replacement padding prior to getting the carpet all the way back in place. Oh, and then comes a good shampooing of the carpet. And, then, back to our flood-free existence (knock on wood) without developing any mold.Back to work for me. Back to happier blogging for you, oh my lovelies...
posted by haahnster at 9:31 AM
4 Comments:
Haahnster, you know how to live. But why are you at the office on Sunday?
That's horrible and I lived through it a few times at my old place. I bought a place on stilts and now? Seems fine.
You have my sympathies, I still have a hole in my bedroom's ceiling the size of a small Virginia ham, from past leaks.
Home ownership, nothing quite like it. Makes you want to rent forever.
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