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Post by templeton on Mar 28, 2014 0:59:39 GMT -5
Return from interstate trip to find 'someone' has fallen asleep in the bath with the tap running, drowning the upstairs bathroom, flooding two bedrooms, and dripping through the kitchen and living room ceiling below light fittings and walls. Carpet stinking, expanding particle board flooring, lights buzzing, blistered paint, drooping plaster, insurance nightmare . The big industrial blowers and the commercial grade de-humidifier the nice insurance assessor man brought have been running flat out for several days... Took me a day and a half, while towelling down with a scratchy dry towel, to figure out here was the perfect seed drying opportunity! So the upper bathroom is now piled high in bags and tubs of parsnip, parsley, lettuce, leek and carrot seed, getting beautifully conditioned for storage. Who said I was a 'glass half empty' kinda guy? ps, with the bathroom in disarray, took the opportunity to change the washers in the upstairs basin - mistake - dehumifier will be on all weekend, now. At leastr I found out how quickly the water finds its way through the flooring to emerge through the downlight holes below. But boy, that seed is drying down a treat! T
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Post by ferdzy on Mar 28, 2014 8:17:29 GMT -5
Aw, Templeton. That's some pretty skimpy lemonade from a truckload of lemons, if you ask me. Hope insurance isn't too obstreperous.
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Post by 12540dumont on Mar 28, 2014 13:24:00 GMT -5
Oh that's just no fun. Sorry for your troubles.
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Post by flowerweaver on Mar 28, 2014 14:42:22 GMT -5
It always happens when one is away. I had a bathroom pipe break in my former house while I was away that pretty much destroyed the interior of the house and a good deal of my possessions from mold. I soon found out I was under-insured. I took a huge loss in selling the place 'as is' but it was the final straw that moved me to buy the rural homestead on which I live now. So in a sense, it was a good thing. Glad you are making use of the situation, and I do hope your insurance comes through for you!
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Post by templeton on Mar 28, 2014 16:21:49 GMT -5
Insurance is OK, so far. The bathroom needed renovating anyway - we've been debating colour schemes for remodelling for 12 years! And the ceiling in the kitchen was in need a repaint - and I might get a chance to remodel the cornices that I've never liked. And new LED downlights are great - much more efficient than old incandescents or slow to start compact fluros. No important possesions gone,and she was pretty quick to dry out the most important thing that got wet - the pea and root breeding notebook with all my info from the start of my projects that was lying on the kitchen table. Lucky I write in pencil, and purchased a really expensive Moleskin notebook which seems to have survived - mostly. And the seed is really nice and dry. So lots of pluses really. T
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Post by steev on Mar 28, 2014 19:39:31 GMT -5
It's an ill wind that blows no good. My greatest regret when a mini-tornado destroyed my 90% completed green-house (three week-ends labor + cost of materials) is that I didn't see it happen; what a memory that would have been! Prolly would've added ten years to my lifespan by blowing a decade's plaque-accumulation out of my arteries.
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Post by richardw on Mar 29, 2014 2:53:43 GMT -5
What a horrible thing to have to come home to T,well at least your insurance is coming to the party,
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