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.