So my sledding budget just got cut into today

Yamadoo04 · Oct 22, 2008

So I am on my to buy a present for my nephew's B-day tomorrow and thinking I will go home work on my website http://www.yamadoosnowmobiles.com and have anice quiet evening with my wife when I get a call from her on my cell balling because it is raining in our house. It's not a rainy day here so all I could figure is our swamp cooler line froze and is leaking in our house now. Well it didn't freeze but where someone before we moved in had fixed a leak in the attic, the connection came apart and gushed water into the attic and it flowed down our walls and has spread to 3/4 of our house. Water was leaking out of our downstair ceiling, coming out of the ceiling fan, bubbling though the paint in the walls and seaping though the capet down to the basement. We had about 1 inch of water on the basement cement floor. So my evening was not as peaceful as i would have hoped it could be. In any event i could not work on my website so those that emailed me links, Sorry but I wont be getting them up for a few days.
The pictures don't quite do it justice for what happend but here is a few that shows some of the damage. Also for those of you that have a swamp cooler, I would suggest running the line on the outside of the house rather then though the attic. Water on the roof would have been way less expensive to fix then water in the house

I just hope our insurrance will cover it. We have made a claim but who knows what will happen.

To see all the photos you can check out my album on photobucket under water damage. http://s270.photobucket.com/albums/jj120/yamadoo04/Water%20Damage/
But here are a few to show the damage.

Yamadoo04 · Oct 23, 2008

Here are a few more

mtcatguy · Oct 23, 2008

sorry man
call your insurance guy!!

DARKO · Oct 23, 2008

I think the water got in your sled and blew the motor, chain case, electrical etc. Call your insurance guy and the wife can pick out new wall colors and you pick out a new sled

Yamadoo04 · Oct 23, 2008

DARKO said:
I think the water got in your sled and blew the motor, chain case, electrical etc. Call your insurance guy and the wife can pick out new wall colors and you pick out a new sled

My sled is in the garage. Good idea.

badass1000 · Oct 23, 2008

Be careful. I have seen houses with sheetrock/water damage like that and the sheetrock fell from the cieling a day or two later.
It was over a kids bedroom and luckily they had the kid sleeping in another room when it happened. A 4'x3' piece of rock fell.

Ex-Member · Oct 23, 2008

oh wow

I have never seen paint do that before. With any luck your insurance company will cover that. How long have you been in the house?

Yamadoo04 · Oct 23, 2008

Thanks for the warning. I'll watch out for that.

We have been in the house almost 3 years now.

rev440alaska · Oct 23, 2008

dang...that sucks! thats a nice house

HardcoreAK · Oct 23, 2008

What a drag....

Sorry to see such a mess. Thats gotta be miserable.
Be aware for mold and mildew growth. That stuff can make people have chronic health problems, serious stuff. Especially your kids. I would get servpro or somebody in there right away to mitigate the mildew process ASAP.

Please explain what a swamp cooler is and why this happened?

SAWYER · Oct 23, 2008

sorry to see that. sucks

Adrenaline Revolution · Oct 23, 2008

HardcoreAK said:
Sorry to see such a mess. Thats gotta be miserable.
Be aware for mold and mildew growth. That stuff can make people have chronic health problems, serious stuff. Especially your kids. I would get servpro or somebody in there right away to mitigate the mildew process ASAP.

Please explain what a swamp cooler is and why this happened?

Great post. We're seeing a record number of homes in the NW lately that have had to be leveled due to black mold in the walls.

Your insurance WILL have to cover this because it is an emergent issue.
The only way they could balk at their responsibility is if this was an ongoing issue that you knew was happening but failed to get fixed like a leaky roof or a slowly leaking pipe that caused the damage over a long period of time or something.
(A buddy of mine just went through that)

Get your agent to come out and get pictures NOW so you can get a team in there to remove ALL the sheet rock in the ceilings before it falls on someone. It's already heavy stuff and when it's saturated with water it will lose it's structural quality and fall. People could get seriously injured.

Best of luck to you. That sux.

Vertical_Escape · Oct 23, 2008

Sorry to see something like that happen to anyone, best of luck get a speedy response/resolution from insurance company.

PJ-Hunter · Oct 23, 2008

Wow! That really sucks! Hope you get it taken care of soon.

mountainbigbull · Oct 23, 2008

Thats really sucks!!! I hate water leaks. The sound of dripping water will wake me up from a deep sleep in full panic!!!

sledhead ut · Oct 23, 2008

WOW, Sorry to hear about that. Water issues totally suck. We've had a couple issues with it too.
I would highly recomend getting your insurance company's approval to get Utah disaster in there. They have experts to anylize and check for mold and mildew situations. If by chance you have any wet carpet and pad. Get it pulled up right away to air out and dry. They can clean it and put it back down.

Right before the Snowshow too.
Good Luck and sorry.

Snowizard · Oct 23, 2008

Nobody needs a mess like that, especially just before the holidays,let alone, anytime , period.
Hope you don't have to battle insurance companies.

I had an oil-fired furnace go bad, while I was gone for about 2 weeks, some years ago.
Came back to a house that looked as though everything inside was sprayed totally pitch black. Walls, ceiling, windows,all contents. Stunk like diesel exhaust too.
You couldn't see out the windows on a sunny day. Total blackout.

It took Service Master over 3 weeks, with a crew working every day to clean it up. Luckily it did turn out OK.

xrated · Oct 23, 2008

aww man that blows.

I've had soem leak issues as well but my paint didn't bubble that bad! Good luck.

Ditto, what's a swamp cooler?

Top · Oct 23, 2008

Oh' man, that really sucks! I hope everything works out for you.

Snowizard · Oct 23, 2008

xrated said:
aww man that blows.

Ditto, what's a swamp cooler?

XR it's a type of evaporative air cooler (conditioner) that in warmer, dryer climates they use to cool homes, etc.
Outside air passes over a grid with water trickling over it. Heat from the air is absorbed by the water, and the cooler air as a result is ducted into the building.
Those don't work in a climate like MN.

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