Our refrigerator came with our house and we aren't sure how old it was. The ice stopped dispensing and the water would't make loud noises. We decided after 5 years it was time for a new one.
We picked out a fun one and were super excited to get it installed! Neil thought it would be a good idea to start this project of unloading the fridge around 9pm one evening.
He pulled the old fridge out and GUSH! We heard a little bit of water. Not thinking it was a big deal-I grabbed a couple towels and Neil went to the street to cut off the water.
After about 30 seconds of a trickle-it started a Niagara Falls style gush for a solid 20 minutes. Because of where our house is situated the water main was on a different street. Neil ran over there with a key, but it didn't work! He had to run back home for a wrench...he finally got it off. We had no idea the damage we were about to endure.
I ended up using every single towel in the house to soak up water. The water ended up going all the way to the hallway. I started noticing the wood buckling in the living room, but I thought my eyes were playing tricks on me. Nope. Our floors were 99% wet and we never even saw water on top of the floor. It all went under the dishwasher and to the rest of the house,
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It went all the way out the garage and down the driveway |
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Kyle and Kenneth were so sweet to come over to help! |
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I contacted our sweet State Farm Agent, Robert Temple to see what we should do. We just thought we'd have fans for a few days and call it good. |
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After 5-6 days of fans running on the floors-they were still soaking wet. They had to take up the floors in order to dry them out. |
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This sent me into a tailspin |
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It took the team DAYS to get the floors up in 2 rooms. This small jackhammer was no match for the glue on these floors! |
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Coming home each day to see this was baffling. |
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We ended up going with this lighter engineered hard wood, |
With all of the destruction-we were advised to get a hotel room for 2 weeks. The only place that had availability for a family of 5 for 2 weeks was the Homewood Suites by the airport. We had no idea this would become our HOME-tel for 49 nights!
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Trying to create festive favors in this madness was just not that fun. |
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Our sweet friends brought us a gift basket of hotel essentials for our stay! |
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Not gonna lie-having breakfast each morning was a treat! |
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Hotel life |
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We even celebrated Sarah Kathryn's birthday in the hotel! The staff brought her a little gift!! |