Long story short: Sunday our dishwasher leaked all over our kitchen. Actually it was more than just the dishwasher - it was also every last drop that went into our kitchen sink on Sunday. Which is kind of alot. Of water.
Yup - if you know about my water heater explosion back in April, you'll be happy to know we FINALLY got new carpeting down about a month ago. The carpentry was all done just before that. The painter had to go to Mexico, so he was coming next week. Was.
That perfect new carpet? Not so perfect. All that water drained through the floor into the basement (through a light fixture) and onto my new carpet. AAARRRGGGH.
But that was yesterday's drama. Today the insurance guys came to clean up and the plumber replumbed. Then the Service Master cleaning guys started stabbing around our kitchen floor with this metal pogo-stick looking thing that said something on it. I caught the letters ...hydr... This thing was beeping like mad. Our kitchen floor and cabinets are soaked. He looks at me. "I have to rip up these tiles lady". It's 7 PM and my kitchen is a disaster area already. We haven't eaten. I said "go nuts".
So now half our lower cabinets have been ripped out, chunks of tile are gone, and the subfloor is soaked through. Like - "we hope we don't fall through the floor" soaked through. There are fans a-blowin all over the joint.
As it turns out, the whole incident was probably a screw up on the plumber's part two weeks ago when they put a new hose on the dishwasher. So hopefully we won't be out another $1000 insurance deductible in under 6 months. Of course we didn't hear back from them today - but I found their very-Fairfield-County motto on their website tonight.
"A Good Job Costs a Lot, A Bad Job Costs a Fortune"
Gee. I feel better already.
More on this recurring drama in the coming days :) Feel free to bring me slabs of granite, travertine tiles and solid cabinetry. I may be getting a new kitchen. I doubt insurance will pay for it since we had to haggle over replacing beach towels with the basement flood, but since we're ripped up, it's forcing the issue of the situation we called a kitchen before.
Think I could get insurance to pay for my addition?
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