Monday, August 11, 2008
water damage restoration
Water damage restoration is the worst. A week or two ago we had a really bad thunder storm. The electricity went out and a tree fell on our fence, and the rain was terrible. Luckily our basement was fine and no water got in, but the day after the thunder storm I went to two of my friend's houses and both of them had really bad water damage in their really nice basements. My friend Dan's family had to have their carpet ripped up in almost all of the rooms in the basement (I think their exercise room was the only one left with carpet, but even that was fanned down and smelled really bad) and a lot of their furnished had to be taken in to be restored from the water damage. Their video games that were on the bottom shelf of their entertainment center all got ruined including their complete system, which is worth hundreds, probably even thousands of dollars. It is such a pain in the butt when something like this happens and your basement floods. Their pool table had to be restored as well and they had a jukebox that got ruined. It's sad because a lot of their storage was also in the basement in a closet and pictures from their childhood were soaked and ruined.
My other friend Jenn, who lives about 2 blocks away from Dan had pretty much the same things happen to her, but thankfully most of their valuable stuff was up higher. They had to take out a lot of their carpeting as well (which can get to be really expensive) and the bottoms of their entertainment center and shelves had to be professionally fixed. Several years ago this happened to us and we had to tear apart our basement after we had just gotten everything put in. My parents were so upset because we had just moved there and installed carpeting and bought new furniture and put a really cool bar in, and then s thunderstorm came and flooded the whole basement and everything had to be ripped out and we had to deal the basement and start all over again.
Water damage is the worst kind of damage that can happen really. Not only are things wet, but they smell after a day or two which makes your whole house smell and if it isn't fixed properly it can get moldy and eventually make people sick.
Mike @ 9:23 AM