Basement Flooding

So that picture of all the snow in a previous Blog entry, the help of some rain, and the help of a neighboring property's irrigation ditch that was rerouted to come straight to our house managed to flood our basement.....

Oh sometimes I wish I wasn't a homeowner! It would of been so nice to have a landlord to deal with all of this....

However, we noticed the water leaking in right away, so we were able to get the upperhand and hopefully most of our pergo is salvageable, and we happen to have a couple extra boxes of flooring, Thank goodness!

You know this wouldn't of been as bad if the flooring had been down for years and needed replaced, but it was brand spanking new! like maybe 9 months old! GrrrrRRR, kind of discouraging......

We immediately began pulling up our pergo floor to begin drying it out so we can hopefully(keep your fingers crossed) re-use it!

This picture is kind of hard to tell whats going on, but you can sorta see some water pooled up on the top of the picture...this is our Underlayment for the pergo flooring

the wet edges of pergo....we mainly took these photo's for insurance reasons

Our lovely cement floor.....mostly dry


The part that really makes me mad is the fact that our insurance won't cover any costs to the property of our house....I know they won't cover structural problems but this qualifies as an "act of God" or at least to me it does.....Seriously whats the point of insurance? Ok enough ranting for now.....

Hopefully this coming weekend we will get our Pergo flooring re-laid, then we can get all of the stuff that was in the living area down there out of what will be Kieona's bedroom, Lay her Carpet and set her room up so she can have her own room....Finally!