On Saturday morning, two weekends ago, I got out of the shower, walked into my room and saw drops of water on the floor looking like water had splashed. I looked around, not understanding where the water would be coming from. I heard a drop, then another and another and I saw that my comforter was soaked and then looked up and saw that water was dripping from the ceiling fan. I turned the light off, ran up stairs (our room is in the basement) and went to figure out where the water was coming from. The sewing room is above my room… so it was the first place I checked. No water there. I went into the bathroom… no water there…
We looked more and finally found that the problem was in the bathroom, the pipe under the sink was broken and water was running into the cabinet, out the back and into the floor and of course the ceiling below. We don’t know how long we had had the problem, but the water dripping from the fan was the first clue… There was no water on the floor in the bathroom, there was no other sign. While Simon turned off the valves, I called the insurance company and over the course of the day the ceiling started to sag. Simon touched it a few times and each time he did I cringed. The next day it was even worse. On Monday morning the emergency crew came over, looked at the ceiling and went into action right away and took off all of what was wet… taking out more than half a large bucket’s worth of water from the ceiling, held up above our bed by just a few layers of paint.
The insurance guy came in the week, then the evaluator and it was all sent to the construction company with the estimated cost of the damages are about 3 500$…
The work in our room is just putting a ceiling up and repainting, but the bulk of the cost is the vanity. The vanity doesn’t look effected, but it is all wet and needs to be taken out. The vanity in the bathroom is the bulk of our bathroom, the drawers are used every day, the cabinet is used every day. The sink is there. It is where I potty Wilhelmina. Next week they will come start the work and part of that will tearing be out the vanity. It needs to be replaced, they said that their carpenter is quite busy, they said that it might be a month before we have a vanity/sink again.
I hate the uncertainty of when things will be back to normal, I have that there will be people in the house making even more of a mess…
I am also looking forward to having a bedroom ceiling again. It is not the look of the missing ceiling as much as the fact that when Simon takes a shower in the morning before heading to work, the sound of the shower is amplified by the big space and it sound like I am in the shower with him…
It’s not the end of the world of course, but it is all a big inconvenience for a family of 6…
*sigh*
looks like you’ll be brushing your teeth in the shower for a while! Sorry you are having to deal with such a mess.
Oh wow, what a mess, I’m so sorry! Thank goodness the ceiling didn’t just cave in and you noticed the water in time.