Most of you know that we just barely finished our basement last fall. On Thursday, July 7 I walked out my front door to discover 4 feet of water in my window well. The City had just barely turned our water back on the day before from the water main brake and we are pretty sure there was too much pressure and it caused our PRV on our sprinkler system to burst. Nate was of course at work and I was at home alone with the kids, but I tried to get this under control myself. The tube for our Stop-and-waste was completely filled with water so I could not see anything to get the water shut off. Men were still across the street working on the water main brake so I ran across the street and asked them to shut off the water to the entire house.
Then the fun part came. I grabbed buckets and started to empty the water out of the window well. It was well past my waste. One of the water guys from the city came over to help me. My main concern was stopping the water from getting any more into the basement.
A neighbor came over with her daughter to see if Callie could play and I ended up having her take both of my kids so I could deal with this mess. I called Nate and told him to get home from work and then I went to the basement to inspect the damage. It was horrible. Our carpets sloshed when I walked on them are there was like at least 1-2 inches of standing water in the gym with more water trapped underneath the wood floor. I literally felt sick at the site. I grabbed our shop vac and tried to clean the standing water from the floor. My friend that had taken the kids sent an email out to the ward asking for fans and a bissel carpet vac.
We had a few neighbors come over and help, but when something like this happens in the middle of the day (in the summertime), everyone else's husbands are at work so you are stuck with women that are home with all of their children.
Nate got home about an hour after the discovery and we went to work cleaning up the water, tearing off baseboards and tearing out the flooring. Trying to dry out the carpets to save them and drying off the cement. It was the worst day ever and very long. We worked from 11:00am - 10:00pm taking short little breaks to eat and care for the children.
We contacted the city to try and get them to pay for the damage and we also contacted our homeowners insurance to see if they would cover the damage and still over 3 weeks later we are just waiting to see who will pay for it. Below are some pictures.
This is the wall the water travelled down.
Our cold storage.
This is how far the water travelled into our main room. Luckily our Love Sac and couched were far enough away so they did not get damaged.
You can see how far the water travelled into our guest room.
Our poor gym all torn up.
You can see there was puddles under the wood floor.
This is the window well after I emptied the water so it was below the window.
1 comments:
Oh man I am so sorry! That is horrible. Hopefully they will take responsibility and pay for the damage!! Jace is so cute in those pics!
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