Mystery Solved
So the house-flood saga continues.
I spent Thursday morning moving all the furniture in the place onto the (very) limited non-carpeted floorspace. Big piles of stuff!!! Then after work yesterday I went home to help my landlord rip the carpet out. The water had been sitting in that place for upwards of 4-5 days most likely, based on their reports of smelling that lovely musty smell in their basement and not being able to locate it. So yea, that carpet was trashed. Ooo, here's a tangent for you:
The place has heating in the floor so, as I was leaving for work yesterday morning, I thought hell, why not turn the heat on and see if that dries out the floor any. Interestingly enough, he had the same idea and went down shortly after I left and turned the heat up (now to like, 30 degrees)
Got home and the place felt like I was down in the bayou. All that extra moisture stuck in the floor and 30 degrees of heat....oooooo boy. So pleasant!
Back on track now.
We ripped up the carpet, which was lovely, and then set to finding the leak. The situation was very odd in terms of what was wet and what wasn't and there was no obvious source or even a spot that was "more damage" than others. About the only thing we could really agree on was that the source was somewhere in the bedroom. WE move outside and started inspecting the outside wall as best we could, but that didn't make much sense because the fall-line goes very drastically away from the house. On a whim, we turned on a tap back there.
Woosh! Waterfall in my room. Hard to believe any water made it outside. Further inspection: pipe froze and cracked in the winter. fun stuff! What's interesting is that they never use that particular tap (it's really in a useless place) which means that somebody not only used their water, but flooded their (my) place in the process. The landlords are not at all happy about that particular bit.
I should also say that they have been incredible. I gave him permission to go in anytime he needed to work on this stuff, and he has been down there pratically non-stop working on it. He's also determined to not just fix it, but improve it too and isn't cutting any corners. Over the next couple weeks the place is getting:
New plumbing
New drywall (2 full walls)
New carpet (the whole place, not just the bedroom, which he could have gotten away with easily)
As well, while all the work is going on, he's putting me up in his hotel whenever he can (not tonight, for example, being Saturday of the long weekend).
So it's a hassle and I don't really have a "home", but i do have a roof at least. Bad timing too with the long weekend, no work can even get started and estimated until Tuesday and then there's 4 or 5 guys that have to go through and work so...yea...going to be weird for a bit out here.
As for the Wolverines, going to be weird for a bit in Ann Arbor too. Oh my...
I spent Thursday morning moving all the furniture in the place onto the (very) limited non-carpeted floorspace. Big piles of stuff!!! Then after work yesterday I went home to help my landlord rip the carpet out. The water had been sitting in that place for upwards of 4-5 days most likely, based on their reports of smelling that lovely musty smell in their basement and not being able to locate it. So yea, that carpet was trashed. Ooo, here's a tangent for you:
The place has heating in the floor so, as I was leaving for work yesterday morning, I thought hell, why not turn the heat on and see if that dries out the floor any. Interestingly enough, he had the same idea and went down shortly after I left and turned the heat up (now to like, 30 degrees)
Got home and the place felt like I was down in the bayou. All that extra moisture stuck in the floor and 30 degrees of heat....oooooo boy. So pleasant!
Back on track now.
We ripped up the carpet, which was lovely, and then set to finding the leak. The situation was very odd in terms of what was wet and what wasn't and there was no obvious source or even a spot that was "more damage" than others. About the only thing we could really agree on was that the source was somewhere in the bedroom. WE move outside and started inspecting the outside wall as best we could, but that didn't make much sense because the fall-line goes very drastically away from the house. On a whim, we turned on a tap back there.
Woosh! Waterfall in my room. Hard to believe any water made it outside. Further inspection: pipe froze and cracked in the winter. fun stuff! What's interesting is that they never use that particular tap (it's really in a useless place) which means that somebody not only used their water, but flooded their (my) place in the process. The landlords are not at all happy about that particular bit.
I should also say that they have been incredible. I gave him permission to go in anytime he needed to work on this stuff, and he has been down there pratically non-stop working on it. He's also determined to not just fix it, but improve it too and isn't cutting any corners. Over the next couple weeks the place is getting:
New plumbing
New drywall (2 full walls)
New carpet (the whole place, not just the bedroom, which he could have gotten away with easily)
As well, while all the work is going on, he's putting me up in his hotel whenever he can (not tonight, for example, being Saturday of the long weekend).
So it's a hassle and I don't really have a "home", but i do have a roof at least. Bad timing too with the long weekend, no work can even get started and estimated until Tuesday and then there's 4 or 5 guys that have to go through and work so...yea...going to be weird for a bit out here.
As for the Wolverines, going to be weird for a bit in Ann Arbor too. Oh my...
posted by Anonymous at 5:17 PM
1 Comments:
updates please . . are you still homeless or have you moved back into your apt? some of us are concerned.
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mom
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