Monday, August 1, 2011

It Comes In Threes-Part Two...and Three (hopefully)?!?!

Friday afternoon, my Aunt, Cousin, and my Cousin's kids came up to visit us.  They were here most of the day, we did a tour of the house.....and everything was as it should be.  My husband even came home to change after work, and nothing....THEN, I went back to do laundry and saw water seeping from the utility closet.  I ran to the master bedroom and water was 2-4 inches standing in the bathroom!!!

I screamed for Jake to come and help, he had to shut off the water supply to the toilet.  The water was not coming through the seat OR the tank, but the water seemed CLEAR!!  Our entire bedroom was saturated, including many of our things we had yet to hang/unpack/clear out...including our bed, which was still leaned up against the wall due to the heat in that room!!

We immediately called the property manager's cellphone...with no answer.  Because it was after 2pm on Friday, we decided we had to find her, so we contacted her office directly.  She was able to call a plumber out to take a look.  Finally, at 5pm, he showed up.  He determined that the septic tank had overflowed (even despite the lack of debris in the water)....YUCK!!!  The plumber took a look around, fixed a few minor problems and called it good. BUT the room(s) were still soaking wet!!!

So, with the Plumber, we called her back...The plumber told her that the "flood" had nothing to do with us, but to issues resulting from the house itself.  She then determined that they would have to get someone out to take care of the clean-up...Surprisingly enough, within the hour a clean-up crew was knocking at the door, thank goodness!!

Due to the amount of water, it was determined that the carpet would have to be removed....he also had to drill holes into the wood vanity in the bathroom in order to dry the flooring there.  We hauled EVERYTHING out of the BIGGEST room in our home, while he set up fans to dry the carpet enough that it would not soak the rest of the house when we hauled it out.  He returned Saturday morning to find that it was dry enough to proceed.  Out the carpet came, with little resistance...since the water had saturated all the glue.

As of today, we are still sleeping on our couch and floor while we wait to hear what to do about that room....which, should be re-carpeted this week, I hope!!  Also, we are desperate for a new bed...as our old one is unusable at this point.  So, wish us luck as we continue this saga in the coming week!!!

To top off my Saturday afternoon, I drove 45 minutes to a Hobby Lobby for some work supplies....only to get there and discover that I had forgotten my wallet!!!  So, a quick trip turned into a three hour drive since Hobby Lobby is not open on Sunday's and I needed materials to finish up the curtains in the girls' rooms and to get some much needed work done.  But wait, that's not all....My brother had invited us over to his house for a BBQ.  My husband grabbed the keys as we got everyone loaded into the van and we headed out....it wasn't until we came home to a LOCKED house that we discovered that he grabbed the vehicle keys that did NOT have the house keys attached!!  LUCKILY, I had made an extra set and given one to my oldest daughter to hang onto.  Although, it would have saved us some time and frustration of attempting to find a way in if she had remembered that she DID have her key with her!!  Oh well, all's well that ends well.....Hopefully THAT was the THREE, right?!?!

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