Flood in House = Bad News!

So the great flood of the Bowman house happened May 11. I noticed that the fridge stopped dispensing water in the afternoon.  Ben came home and checked around it and couldn't figure it out.  Our basement unit is vacant/empty, so no one was down there (until the next day) to tell us the water line to the fridge broke there and was spraying water all over everything.  Oh dear!!

So, we turned it off and called the home insurance.  They sent over an adjuster and an insurance guy to assess damages. This took days to figure out.

Now we're about to May 18, a week later.  We pulled out the carpet and padding in all the basement rooms to find wet wood under all of that.  Then we (all these "we's" means our personal handy man/friend-Glenn) pulled out all the wood and underneath that the concrete was thick/to thin/ or nonexistent in some places. 

And now we're to another week later, May 25.  Needless to say, we needed a dumpster for all this nasty-ness that was being pulled from our house.  :/  Ugh.  

Then May 27 it was so bad living in the house with just two days of tear out that we decided not to live there anymore for our health.  

Now another week has gone by since we've moved out and good thing because we keep tearing out and fixing this and fixing that and we have a huge list of what must be done now that we have everything exposed and opened up.  

We are feeling the stress emotionally and financially right now.  We are taking it one day at a time and praying for, "our house to heal itself fast."  The good news is our house will be "as good as new" or "better" than before and it is forcing us to get a lot of things done on it that we were holding off on, but not anymore!! So stay tuned for updates & completed basement/house projects!