The wonderful basement

This was what our basement looked like on Saturday morning.

It was soaking wet, squishy as in when you walk on it, it squishes. We had to remove all the boxes and stuff off the floor, moved them upstairs and dry them.  Then went to Sears and bought a dry/wet vac to suck the water from the carpet.

As soon as we got home, we went to work…DB did all the work. He sucked up 6 buckets of water and the floor is still wet but not squishy.

Two dehumidifiers and fans are on full blast yet it’s not drying. We found the sump pump was jammed up. DB fixed that and now the water is draining. Want to read what the sump pump does, read here, me lazy to type.  Been in this house for 3 winters, no problem with the drainage, drain tiles.

The house inspection was today.  The guy came and showed us what he found with the basement.  He has a special kind of scanner to check for moisture.  The entire family room area is soaked and the water stops right at the only bedroom, laundry room and bathroom.  Then he scanned the walls of the family room.  They too are wet 2 feet from the floor up.  Wonderful, isn’t it?

We are smelling something foul now….it smells like something rotten.  We think it’s mold starting to build up in the sheetrock – inside the walls.  DB is now on the phone with our “dear” insurance company hopefully to be able to get it paid for to fix the mess.  If they are not paying and there is a reason why they don’t, we will have no choice to tear the walls down and carpets off ourselves and we need to get the walls dry soon coz we don’t want to inhale mold for whatever weeks left we have in this house.

Just what we need right now….totally don’t know what to say except to throw it out here!