Showing posts with label flood. Show all posts
Showing posts with label flood. Show all posts

Thursday, June 30, 2011

An Engineer to the Rescue?

For the three people who read about my life and maybe find it interesting I have more to document about our water pipe breaking from last September. Recapping: we had weird smells in the front room. Then found the carpet totally soaked, water was RUNNING down a crack near the west wall. We were without water for 6 weeks because the plumber we hired (family) had more  jobs "in line in front of us" (bull just more lucrative) 90% water redo and a call to a contractor. He advised us to wait the winter out for "settling of the dust" so to speak.
I put it off for 2 months when it got warm. I just didn't want to hear that the insurance company was weaseling out of fixing things that were wrong. But I put on my big girl panties and got the ball rolling.

Contractor came back out and did a recap. FINALLY got in touch with the head insurance adjuster when I told him our front door wasn't shutting anymore. It would just bang on the frame and bounce open.
We replace the door, but it is still 20% unfixed. Like all projects around here.
The insurance company sent an engineer out yesterday. He spent 5 hours walking around our house and taking pictures. He kept asking me questions in a way that made me feel like he didn't believe that we have never had damage in the house before. We haven't. He finally left around 7 and the only piece of info that I could get out of him was that he has seen worse and they probably won't total out the house.
I don't know if I feel sad or relieved.

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