MY HOUSE FLOODED !!!! NOT GOOD !!!!

Vivian Prouty
on 5/18/09 9:53 am - Fort Worth, TX
Luckly Meggie....my ENTIRE carpet isn't wet.   It is about 2 ' into my den.   I live 1/2 block from the city center where they send the work trucks out from.   Luckly they were here about 10 minutes after I called them.    It is WET but I do think that the fans will dry it.....It will be pulled up really soon...sooner now that it got wet.  LOL  I really wanted to get my kitchen cabnits first....but now I may just have to go for flooring first.   I will talk to hubby and see what he says about calling them.    Thanks for the advice though.


Hugs and blessings ~~~ Vivian

GOD GRANT ME THE SERENITY TO ACCEPT THE THINGS I CAN NOT CHANGE;   COURAGE TO CHANGE THE THINGS THAT I CAN;  AND THE WISDOM TO KNOW THE DIFFERENCE !!!!    THIS IS MY DAILY PRAYER.
Vivian Prouty      Obesity Help Support Group Coach  "LOSE IT 4 LIFE"


 

Vivian Prouty
on 5/19/09 5:51 am - Fort Worth, TX
Meggie.....I did call my insurance co. this AM....they are having Service Master's come out.   I pretty much have to go with who they send out to do the job.   They did say that they are sure this will be covered under my policy.    Thank GOD !!!!   UGH it is really starting to smell right now.   YUCK !!!!


Hugs and blessings ~~~ Vivian

GOD GRANT ME THE SERENITY TO ACCEPT THE THINGS I CAN NOT CHANGE;   COURAGE TO CHANGE THE THINGS THAT I CAN;  AND THE WISDOM TO KNOW THE DIFFERENCE !!!!    THIS IS MY DAILY PRAYER.
Vivian Prouty      Obesity Help Support Group Coach  "LOSE IT 4 LIFE"


 

meggieintx
on 5/19/09 6:41 am - Fort Worth, TX
Woo hoo on the coverage! Ken's company use to use them, they should be fine!!
Meggie
Megan 
(deactivated member)
on 5/18/09 10:49 am - Somewhere IN, TX
Vivian,

Call someone to come pull up your carpets.... and dry them out in your garage or carport or patio or something.  Put fans in and then have them come put them back, stretch them and put in new pad if your carpet is good enough so you won't have mold.

I have houses I have to do that to all day long for most all the same reasons.

Janet
Vivian Prouty
on 5/18/09 10:29 pm - Fort Worth, TX
Hi Janet.........I am not going to worry about them.    If it is really bad when they dry.   I will get my exacto knife and cut the carpet up and take it out.   I am replacing it with porcelin tiles in a month or so anyway.     My carpet is 19 yrs out....so it has seen it's better days.   Thanks for the advice.

Hugs and blessings ~~~ Vivian

GOD GRANT ME THE SERENITY TO ACCEPT THE THINGS I CAN NOT CHANGE;   COURAGE TO CHANGE THE THINGS THAT I CAN;  AND THE WISDOM TO KNOW THE DIFFERENCE !!!!    THIS IS MY DAILY PRAYER.
Vivian Prouty      Obesity Help Support Group Coach  "LOSE IT 4 LIFE"


 

Butterfly Reborn
on 5/18/09 12:17 pm

Viv,

So sorry to hear of your house calamity!

This should be covered by your insurance company unless you have a high deductibe!?!?!

There is something the issue of "pipe" with insurance companies but it sounds like a hook up and not an actual pipe?  I'd certainly call for clarification if nothing else!?!?!

If you can't have a restoration company come out, then pull up what you can even it's partial and blow fans on it.  It's the padding that becomes the problem when carpets get wet.  So, you really need to lift it up as best you can.  I have even cut the padding and taken it out to dry and then reinstalled/reattached the padding to the dry padding with duct tape (love that stuff) and then have the carpet pulled and tacted.

I hope you get some relief from this incident soon!

I have two sides to my brain - a right side and a left side.  The trouble is sometimes there is nothing left in the right side and nothing right in the left side.
Post-Op RNY 6.5 years
HW 252  GW 140 CW 140

Vivian Prouty
on 5/18/09 10:35 pm - Fort Worth, TX
Thanks Vanessa,

It was the connection under the sink where my hubby about a month ago replaced the faucet.   He obviously didn't tighten it enough and pressure built up and blew the connection off.   I couldn't see what was going on because when I opened the cabinet under the sink the ho****er was spewing out on me.   So couldn't cut it off there unless I wanted to get burned.   I was just beside myself to say the very least.    If the smell is bad....I may go buy a pad reminant and replace damaged pad.   Thanks for the advice.


Hugs and blessings ~~~ Vivian

GOD GRANT ME THE SERENITY TO ACCEPT THE THINGS I CAN NOT CHANGE;   COURAGE TO CHANGE THE THINGS THAT I CAN;  AND THE WISDOM TO KNOW THE DIFFERENCE !!!!    THIS IS MY DAILY PRAYER.
Vivian Prouty      Obesity Help Support Group Coach  "LOSE IT 4 LIFE"


 

JodieBlonde
on 5/18/09 12:38 pm - Mesquite, TX
Call your insurance company. All they can do is say no coverage - but if there is coverage they will SEND you some for the restoration and drying and more than likely would do it tonight.

In 2007 while we were on vacation our toilet tank split down the back for some unknown reason.  Water ran in our house FOUR days before the neighbor noticed it running out from under the front door and turned it off at the street.
                      
  
Vivian Prouty
on 5/18/09 10:37 pm - Fort Worth, TX
I wish I had saw this last night and I would have done that.    My hubby told me to just forget it !!!!  UGH....he is NOT the one that deals with anything though.    LOL   Sorry you went through that.    I would be totally beside myself if that happened to me.   


Hugs and blessings ~~~ Vivian

GOD GRANT ME THE SERENITY TO ACCEPT THE THINGS I CAN NOT CHANGE;   COURAGE TO CHANGE THE THINGS THAT I CAN;  AND THE WISDOM TO KNOW THE DIFFERENCE !!!!    THIS IS MY DAILY PRAYER.
Vivian Prouty      Obesity Help Support Group Coach  "LOSE IT 4 LIFE"


 

George T.
on 5/18/09 1:44 pm - Grand Prairie, TX
I am sorry Vivian, but do not believe your family.  I would not believe it until I hear it from the insurance company.  And don't call them and say "I don't think you will cover this, but..."  Go at them positively.  You never know.  Heck, you pay for the insurance, try to use it.



GOD BLESS AMERICA!!!!!                   
 

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