Construction and Industrial Articles
posted on 2 February 2012
The biggest clean up I’ve ever had to deal with started approximately one week ago. I had my washing machine on the second floor of my house break. While that’s bad enough, it proceeded to drain about 40 gallons of water out onto the floor of my laundry room, carpeted hallway and my son’s carpeted room, then down through the floorboards, through my ceiling into my living room and kitchen. I had buckets all over the house to catch the water that was coming through the ceiling. I'd worked in tank cleaning in a past job, but this was surpassing any job I'd done in the past in terms of difficulty. Upstairs, well, that was something I couldn’t handle by myself, so I had to call a company in to do a carpet extraction to clean up all the water. Then I had to have someone come in, look at my machine, empty the machine (as it was full of the next cycle of water) and check my pipes. My husband had to cut “holes” into our ceiling just to drain the water that was leaking and being soaked up by the sheet rock. The rest of the cleanup will include tearing out the ceiling, replacing the sheetrock and painting, followed by replacing the ceiling fan. Upstairs, we had the carpet pulled up and the padding ripped out. So that has to be replaced along with the carpet being put back down properly. Hopefully, nothing more needs to be done at this point, but as we all know, mold tends to creep up and surprise us! |
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