Just in case you don't hear from me for a day or two.......
We had a glorious pounding over-an-inch rainstorm tonight.....T-storms brewing on the horizon at 6:00.....reached us by 7:00. And then the fun started. "Do you hear water in the walls???" Baaaaaaad question. It's leaking f-ing everywhere....around the fire sprinklers (not a design spec, I'm sure) and the dryer vent in our laundry room. The poor tenant downstairs had bulging walls.....AND didja know rain comes up????? Well we have wet spots on our carpet without drips from above. Cute, huh? It's 10:45 now......gonna be a loooong night.
Oh Karen, I'm so sorry - we went through something like that last fall. Mostly the rain coming up part but we've had our fair shair of leaky skylights and stuff. What a mess. I hope things are starting to dry out.
My best recomendation, next to getting a specialist out for the leaking walls/roof is to rent one of those carpet shampooers - not to clean but to suck the water up and then a de-humidifier - it will really do a great job drying things out.
Your place is new and looks so nice! who'd have thought it.
The landlord better have good insurance and a better contractor on hand. Was the rain storm you had so unusual that the builders could be excused for not building to accommodate the rain? Is it safe to use electricity?
I'm sure if you wanted to go camping, you have chosen a better place than your living room?
YEESH. Oh, man. I'm so sorry that's happening to you. ~~ Sooz
------- "Those in the cheaper seats clap. The rest of you rattle your jewelry." John Lennon (1940 - 1980) Royal Varieties Performance ~ Dr. Sooz's Bead Links
I know that when working at the city we used fans after we sucked up as much water as possible. Commercial fans are great, but use what you have. It will help tons!
LOL that's pretty much how WE feel! The rain is a very good thing, but not all at once!
Okay, the rundown for everyone is the rain was so fast and heavy the roof couldn't handle it. There are no gutters or downspouts (true for most of the area) so weird stuff happens runoff-wise. I've told Mike we WILL have gutters on whatever house we get. LOL
We've experienced problems due to poor building before. I'm still wondering whether it was a structural limits thing or bad design/build. There's a huge lawsuit going on for other issues. I'll be glad to be gone, that's for sure.
Carpet guys came a little while ago. Power vacc'd the floor then set up a blower that goes UNDER the carpet. My bedroom floor looks like the Moon Bounce. This could be fun later tonight. LOL Carpet Guy says the fan needs to run for 2 days. White noise it is NOT, but we'll live with it.
Various parts of walls and ceilings are downright mushy. There are bulges where every seam was taped on the affected walls. If this were my house, I'd be freaking, but it's not so as long as nothing falls apart within the next
6-9 months, I really don't care. I think the paint and texturing are the only actual support at the moment. The wonders of latex!
Our poor downstairs neighbor got clobbered. I knew there was a reason I wanted to be upstairs.
The good news, no more rain in the forecast. We get a day of spring tomorrow (75) then the next 5-6 days will all be in the 80's. Guess who's gonna have all the windows open!!!
Jeez. It rained so hard (i'm up in cave creek) and long that I started to worry. We're just not prepared for it here. We have one area on our kitchen wall that the paint is bulging too, where the dry wall looks to be taped. I don't even want to know what's going on behind the wall, but we're gonna have to. Ugh. We own so we don't have a landlord to fall back on. Hopefully any damage is covered by homeowners insurance.
You should have seen our front and back yard....the washes were running like crazy. We had about three rivers flowing through our property. Cool to see outside...very uncool to think of it running through your walls!
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