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Post by oldmuley on Apr 1, 2023 17:11:27 GMT -8
20 years ago, we had some foundation work done, and since then I've bragged about how "rain proof" my basement is. Well, last night's combination of torrential rain, frozen ground, and my own hubris meant my bragging came back to bite me. I woke up to over an inch of water on the floor in my layout room. From what i discovered, I apparently left the one, small basement window open, which let in all the water. About 20 empty locomotive boxes as well several unopened lego kits got soaked and had to be tossed (don't worry, I didn't throw out the Lego, just the boxes). Worst of all, the drywall and insulation all got soaked to the point it was nothing but mush. I ended up spending the better part of the afternoon cutting out drywall and bagging up debris. Now I'm faced with the possibility of having to cut out about 6 feet of my layout just to reach the rest of the drywall. It's amazing how far water can travel and seep up through construction materials! So while my situation is a bit of a mess, it's small potatoes next to what other people around the midwest are dealing with weather-wise.
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Post by kentuckysouthernrwy on Apr 7, 2023 9:38:43 GMT -8
I feel your pain, 10 yrs ago we had the sump pump quit during a wet even, thaw and rain and left nearly 10 inches. Ins co cleaned a lot up but I also had to cut out the duck under I had and lost nearly a dumpster full of all sorts of hard, if not impossible things. Thanks to the efficient cleanup pros at least I managed to keep my health...shove hundreds of dollars of stuff out. I invested in lots of totes....if water gets over them, I'll change hobbies.
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Post by drolsen on May 4, 2023 4:06:02 GMT -8
Ugh, really sorry to hear that. Five years ago, very early on Eastern morning, our upstairs bathroom toilet water hose snapped off while we were out of town and flooded our entire house except for one bedroom. We got a call from our frantic neighbor who said there was water pouring out from under our garage door. We were about a six hour drive away, and while we were racing back, amazing friends and family got in there and salvaged everything they could. I’m sure you know this, but the key thing was drying up all the moisture as quickly as possible to prevent mold from growing. We had a water mitigation crew come in, and by the time we got home, they had ripped all the wet drywall out and had huge fans going in every affected room. Thank goodness for good insurance, but it took two months to rebuild. Fortunately, we didn’t have a basement, so all my trains were stored in an unaffected part of the garage and at a small storage unit, so none of those were damaged. We were lucky that pretty much everything we lost was replaceable, thanks to the friends and family that moved things out of the house that day.
Good luck with the recovery process!
Dave
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Post by riogrande on May 4, 2023 5:05:38 GMT -8
I had a similar experience about 7 years ago when the sump pump failed during a storm in my townhouse while I was away. Water backed up from the French drains below the foundation and covered 3/4 of the basement floor. It would have cost around $5k to have it professionally remediated but we did it all DIY for around $500 or so. We had to cut out the bottom 1 foot (2 feet on one wall) of drywall and remove all the flooring, and then treat with white vinegar and Lysol. We also rented a professional grade dehumidifier to dry everything out. I learned how to drywall and did all the work to restore it and then we refloored the basement with vinyl tile.
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Post by oldmuley on May 22, 2023 17:39:42 GMT -8
I've decided to take advantage of my mess, and rework some parts of my layout that have bugged me. I told my wife that once the school year ends, I'm going to dedicate an entire week to tearing out and replacing the bad window as well as the damaged wall.
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