Water Damage, cont...

Day 21 and counting...







We're slowly making progress on the repair and renovation of the computer/craft room. The insurance adjuster came out and estimated over $4,500 in damages, including the cost to replace the carpet. So, we've decided to install laminate flooring instead of replacing the carpet. We are "home-improvement challenged" but feel like this is a project that we can do ourselves. We've read a few magazine articles and watched a video and it looks pretty do-able. Time will tell.

In the mean time, we've been going through things and seeing what the damage is. It really could've been a lot worse. My scrapbook paper is completely ruined as are several of my and Bill's craft magazines. We still don't know the extent of the damage to the hot tub...may not know about that until spring.

We've had to rip up the carpet & pad to dry out the sub-floor. They had to punch holes in the walls to get air in to dry out the walls. After everything was dried out (took about 2 weeks), they ran an ozone machine to kill any mold. We finally moved the huge bookcase and desk out. I set up the computer in a tiny corner in the dining room, which I'm also using for my Stampin' Up! business. It's really cramped, but it's working for now. We've also rearranged the piles of furniture and stuff and cleared out the living room so that Jamie has a place to play and hang out.

We bought the supplies to install the laminate floor at Lowe's in Pueblo. We also bought a nice space heater that will live permanently in the computer/craft room (or at least until we can install an additional heater vent from the furnace).

Jamie is going to spend some time at a friends house this weekend so that Bill & I can get started on this project.




These two photos show the sub-floor and you can see the water line and see how far the water came across the room from the hot tub (about 3/4 across the room).