Wednesday, August 29, 2007
Progress!
Well we got a dumpster, that is a lot to be said in this area right now! So we got the drywall out, the carpeting, and all the non savable stuff, which was quite a bit. My dear stepson got hit the worst. He lost a lot of his boyhood possessions, (being he is a teenager you know!) his collectible Pokemon cards, clothes, DVD player, Gameboy, we lost a lot of bedding stuff and other stuff we had stored down there. So 4 dumpster fulls later, (it was a small dumpster) and one more to go, we have most of it gone. We have used a watertight mildew and mold resistant paint on all the cement walls. We really couldn't find a "crack" in the foundation, but where the water was pouring in at was the chimney area. I think that old brick just wicked that water right in. So we probably will have to do something there. Whether we paint it with that paint, or what I have no idea. Then we need to re-insulate, re-frame, hang the drywall and stuff and get going. That will probably take us until Christmas! LOL
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That's weird that the water just seeped right through that part of the brick like that. I hope you have a solution sooner than later...it certainly seems like a big-time puzzle...good luck.
I'm so sorry to hear about your water damage. It's a pain to clean up. In the house where I grew up, the basement used to flood routinely. We got to the point where we had all of our storage boxes on pallets or bricks. I've not yet had water in the basement of my house, but everything is in Rubbermaid containers just in case...
And don't feel bad for "whining". There's nothing wrong with mourning your loss, so long as you are able to move forward.
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