Comments on Profile Post by zerodeefex

You too??!!!! Wow, that sucks big time. Funny how time seems to crawl when you're not having fun. Four to six months feels like an eternity. Wishing you the best and hope it all turns out well. Ours now appears as if nothing ever happened, except the 10 Gs to fix it all.

Yeah, I'm basically trying to get our insurance to cover quite a bit that they didn't cover. All in this has been close to 30k and insurance paid out quite a bit less. We're lucky that we found contractors to get going quickly. A month in and we're almost back to normal.

Our deductible is 10K to keep annual costs down, so basically I got to bankroll the adventure. Most of the contractors were willing to work with me when they knew the situation, provided I was willing to kick in some sweat equity. Good luck with it all, but watch out for black mold. Make certain everything is really dry before things go back on the floor and walls.

We had a long battle with mould after our flood.

@Thad E Ginathom : sounds positively horrible.

Thankfully out water mitigation provider went a bit all out with the floors and ceiling and got it dry quickly. We had a good bit of hardwood, ceiling and carpet to replace but there's no risk of mold.

In our case, the subfloor was OSB with composition varying throughout. Assisted drying took 12 days to 97% dry. The last 2% took another 21 days, no blowers or dehumidifiers. Our contractor explained OSB wouldn't benefit from the assist. I kept one blower on part of the floor and nothing on another part. Measurements corroborated the contractor's experience.

@atomicbob. It was horrible. The house was waist-deep in very nasty floodwater for several days. The walls and floor were well soaked, let alone anything else. We didn't use dehumidifers, although did keep AC on. But hey, water is water, whether it comes from the canal or the burst pipe.

@Thad E Ginathom : no, yours was much worse. Burst pipes give relatively clean water. Floodwater contains a witch's brew of bad things. Hope you have recovered from such a terrible event.

No doubt PTSD lurks not far below the surface. It was utterly traumatic. For huge parts of a whole city.

Can't tell you how much I feel for all you guys. I lost 2/3ds of my book collection to a flood back in '09. Shitty events of this sort are nothing short of traumatic.

Books were the thing that hurt me deepest. Last year I met someone whose house was full to the ground-floor ceiling: she lost 400 books. I know musicians who lost old instruments, and poorer people who simply lost everything they had.