What alerted us to this catastrophe was the basement smoke detector started going off. When JoAnne went down to investigate (I wasn't going down there) she was greeted with water pouring from dozens upon dozens of ceiling nooks and crannies. The water was running through and out of the smoke detector, which thankful set it off and alerted us to the problem.
We, along with help from our neighbor, eventually cleaned everything up that night. Now, when I called our insurance company to open a claim another type of flood began. They immediately dispatched a cleaning and restoration company called ServiceMASTER.
and boy oh boy did they arrive -
In the basement they removed ALL the ceiling insulation in half the basement; the half under the kitchen and bathroom. The also remove the top half of the sheetrock on the outside back wall and the insulation behind it. Three locations had already begun growing mold, which they sprayed and treated. Then came in the industrial equipment: (4) blowers and (2) dehumidifiers. These ran full time from Friday afternoon till Sunday morning, see below -
The kitchen and bathroom had the baseboard trim removed and 1" holes drilled into the walls to allow air flow. The refrigerator was pulled out and the same was done behind it. Then (5) industrial fans and (1) hugh dehumidifier was installed, and again ran from Friday afternoon until Sunday morning. The noise was deafening. You literally couldn't hear yourself think, see below -
The good news is that we're 100% dry, so there's not worry about mold. The bad news is that the basement ceiling and walls need new insulation installed and the sheetrock re-hung. The weather is changing fast and getting colder as each day passes, so the timing isn't the best.
We're in a holding pattern until we hear back from our insurance assessor but all in all things moved pretty fast.
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Thank GOD for great neighbors!!!!!
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