OT - Some of you might remember when...

[CADsortaGUY]

..I posted about a year ago that the sewer had backed up in my computer room which has the only floor drain in the basement. Well, I never did replace the carpeting - just used a shampooer and lots and lots of water and layed the carpet back down. Some of you here in Iowa might have noticed that we've had quite a bit of rain the last couple weeks. Yuck 😛

Well....I no longer have carpetting in this room, I had to tear it out today. I'm thinking there is a crack in the foundation and it was leaking water into this room. Half the room has been wet for the last 2 weeks:| I didn't have time to rip it up before I left for vacation - I wish I would have taken the time though - it friggin reeks of moldy rotten carpet and pad :|

Time to call the landlord again😉😛 I got it on tape though since I'm sure they'll claim it on their insurance.

Anyone wanna come help me tile? 😛

CkG

 

[Confused]

Pay the air fare there, and i'll help ya tile! 😀




You think I'm joking, don't you.


😛


Sorry to hear you had to rip it all out, and I can imagine the smell of it!


Garry

 

[Slaughter]

I feel your pain, here in New Albany, Ohio, we had over 4 inches of rain in 90 mins Thurs night and I had a lovely 2 inches of water that smelled of septic in the basement. So nice waking up and having to do laundry before you leave becuase all your close smell like someone crapped on them. 🙁 🙁 🙁

 

[ProviaFan]

No, I don't remember your previous post, but I feel your pain about your carpet. The place where I live has a perpetually wet and stinky crawlspace, along with heating/cooling ducts that draw in some of the nasty air from down under. It freaking sucks (shouldn't that actually be blows? 😉) each time we have to turn on the furnace for the first time after a period when it hasn't been used. :disgust:

 

[RaySun2Be]

I remember the previous post. And yes, I do know what it smells like. But it's not as bad as a basement apartment that has been flooded due to an outside flood, nearly 3 feet of standing water, with all the oil, chemicals, waste, dead animals, etc. floating in it. Major Ick! :Q

I was in K.C.M.O during a major flood, and a friend's apartment got flooded. We helped muck it out after water went down, and they pumped her apartment out. She was a musician and performer, so she had an upright piano that was toast, as well as expensive show costumes. That was one nasty flood. 🙁

Slaughter,
New Albany, Ohio?

Hey, we are a stone's throw away from each other. :Q I live in Westerville. 🙂

And while we got a little bit of rain the other day, you guys really got dumped on. :Q

 

[Kelemvor]

My wife and I bought our house about a year and a half ago. Most Air Conditioner units have a tube/hose running frmo them to a drain to let the humidity that it pulls out of the air drain somewhere. Well the previous owner had wound up the hose and hung it on the blower system in the basement and neglected to tell us. We finally noticed when that part of the room was all wet and it had ran under the wall and over into our main room (heading towards the main drain in the basement). All the carpet in between got soaked and the pad and everything. Had to cut out the pad and replace it because it was gross and moldy.

Now we make sure we put the hose down before we turn on the AC.

 

[Slaughter]

And while we got a little bit of rain the other day, you guys really got dumped on

There's an understatement. 😀 I had ordered a pizza and the delivery driver couldn't get to my house becuase most of the roads had standing water. I think the news said the fire department ran 20 some times for idiots who had stalled their cars out in the water. :|