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Sometime I hate being a Homeowner
I came home from work yesterday to find my living room carpet soaked in water (I live in a tri-level with a living room and bedroom on the bottom floor). Apparently the sump pump failed to keep up with all the rain water we had. Ultimately we decided to take care of the problem ourself since it was just water. Our home owners policy has a $1000 deductible before they would cover anything any way, so we figured if we are going to be paying out of packet to clean this up, why bother filing a claim just so they can increase the cost of our policy.
DH went to Ace Hardware and Home Depot to rent industrial carpet cleaners to suck up the water and big Aqua Dry fans. We were up til 3am sucking water out of the carpet. And then up at 7:30 to do it again before returning the vacuums. Now we get to let the fans run for the next 5 days and hope it dries out the carpet. We slo ordered a bigger sump pump so hopefully we dont run into this problem again.
Any one else ever have this problem? Any tips getting the carpet to dry faster?
Some days I miss being able to pick up the phone and call the landlord...
Re: Sometime I hate being a Homeowner
Can you get a dehumidifier? That will probably help some as well.
I totally hear you on the homeownership. I just posted a book on all the crap that's gone wrong at our house in my blog. It sucks. Good luck and hopefully the carpet is salvagable!
BFP#2: 8/14/11 M/C 8/30/11 6w1d
BFP #3: 10/26/11
Beta #1 @11dpo: 22 Beta #2 @13dpo: 90 Beta #3 @17dpo: 480
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dx Homozygous C677T MTHFR
In our old house, a dehumidfier did an amazing job at sucking up some of that moisture (we've just always had them in our basement growing up).
That really sucks, we have a quad (basically your house with a basement) and when we had flooding problems I was pretty thankfully for that basement even though it's small.
Great minds. LOL
Ah the joys. I swear it's always something in our house - ALWAYS. Right now our thermostat needs to be replaced and our dryer won't shut off when it's done with a cycle - it just keeps going. I discovered that a few weeks ago when I was up at 3 to feed Dayne and heard the dryer! ACK! So now we have to keep an eye on the cycle.
As far as your carpets, I agree with Sheila - get a dehumidifier for sure so there is not mildewy smell.
Sounds like you guys really have it covered. I hope the carpet dries out well.
We would run ours even beyond the point when we thought the carpet was okay/dry and the 'bucket' would still fill up pretty quick.
GL!! (ditto homeownership really sucking sometimes)