Soooo…it's been a while since my last post, primarily because I've been so busy and overwhelmed trying to get our house back in order.
A week and a half ago I came downstairs after hearing a dripping noise…it sounded like someone left the water running and it was dripping onto the floor. I never imagined in a million years I would find a HUGE bubble in our ceiling with water dripping onto our floor! Turns out we had a pin-hole leak in one of our pipes above the fireplace in our living room! So I immediately start yelling for Jonathan (who was supposed to be putting Jayden down but was playing peek-a-boo with her in her room)…and as I ran outside to turn off the water to the house, he comes downstairs to see the disaster!
He popped the hole in the paint and let the water drip out.
The next morning the paint started peeling off the ceiling and you could see the discoloration from the water damage.
I called out a plumber first thing to fix the leak and thank goodness we had water back on within a few hours of him arriving. You have no idea how often you need water (especially when you have kids) until you don't have access it!
Before cutting the hole in the ceiling to find the leak, he poked a hole in the ceiling to drain the remaining water…luckily he had a bucket handy -- there was enough water to fill up almost an entire orange Home Depot bucket! We had no idea the pipe had been leaking for about a week!
The insurance company had a water restoration company out the same day to start drying out the walls!
Turns out the water had completely damaged the wall behind the fireplace and all the way down to the baseboards.
Also, about 1/3 of the ceiling was completely damaged so they tore it out as well.
They started running fans and dehumidifiers to dry out the beams and joists. It took about 3 days for everything to dry!
Luckily my girls are used to constant noise -- the fans helped them sleep!
Now the construction company is rebuilding the walls and ceiling.
One step at a time, our house is being put back together.
Hopefully by Friday the repairs will be complete and our house will be back to normal!
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