Finally!

Tomorrow we finally get new carpet. For the last 3 weeks we have been living on a dirty concrete floor downstairs. The carpet guys are finally coming tomorrow to install the new carpet. I can't wait to put the house back together and to clean it from top to bottom.

Waterworld

I woke up Friday morning, excited that it was finally Friday. Just like every other morning I got up, took a shower and came back out to wake up Ben. When I walked out of the bathroom I stepped on the carpet with bare feet for the first time. Squish! Ugh....the floor is wet.

I woke Ben up and we figured out that the sump pump was full and wasn't running and that water was coming up through the floor. Ugh! We called a plumber and he came out and figured out that the sump pump in the back had stopped working. We had a ton of rain on Thursday and when you put those two things together the water had no where to go except up through the floor. After the pump was fixed we had some water guys out to see if the carpet was salvageable. After they looked at it we determined that we couldn't save the carpet and in order to prevent mold we needed to get the carpet and pad up ASAP and then lay an anti-microbial wash.

After several hours of moving furniture and clothes from downstairs to upstairs the carpet and pad were out the spray was down and 6 blowers and 1 dehumidifier were in place.

We've filed a claim with insurance but they can't get out here until next Friday. Hopefully they will approve the claim and allow us to get new carpet ASAP. I've posted a couple of pictures of the damage. It doesn't look that bad but at the end of the day it will probably cost us about $6,500.