Our Flood

If you are wondering why there haven't been too many updates lately, it is because on Sept 22nd our house flooded! We went to Kelowna for the weekend, a Youth Retreat, and received a phone call that our house was flooding and they thought the water had been running for quite a while! It was the toilet in the upstairs bathroom that caused the damage, the little hose that connects the wall to the toilet burst.

This was the reason our neighbours called the city and had the water turned off!

Here is the inside, kitchen and dining room. You can see how the water moved things on the floor, and also the hole in the flooring is where we removed a wall when we first moved in. I am not sure where the pail of water came from, but I am pretty sure we left no pails around before we left.

Here is the ceiling in the living room/kitchen.dining room. We had scraped off all the popcorn stuff because it was ugly and then were waiting for an electrician to come before we re-painted. We were told that if the water would have ran for only an hour more the ceiling would have fallen and all of our furniture would have been damaged.

This is a door jam in the basement and I was shocked to see how high the water actually got, or maybe it was how much water the wood absorbed. I am not sure. We have wood panelling in the rec room in the basement and unfortunately they are not tearing it down, I am not sure if it just doesn't absorb water or if it is such crappy stuff you can't wreck it!!

Here is the main level of the house today. They are almost completely done re-drywalling everything and we are hoping the mudding will be finished this week.

These are the upstairs bedrooms. They only had to remove 2 feet worth of drywall on all the upstairs walls.
Since the house flooded we have been living in a Motel! We are really trying to keep life as normal as possible, but lately it has proven really hard. We can't blame the kids at all for being a little crazy, James and I ourselves are going nuts! We are hoping to be back into the house at the start of December, but I guess with construction you never really know!!