We are overdue to post vacation pics. Coming soon! Of course we all had allergy attacks due to real, live, blooming things in HHI, so were a bit snuffly when we got home. Things were cruising along fine last week...until, Sunday night...
Our disposal backed up into the wet bar in the basement on Sunday night, exploding and causing damage to the carpet and bar area (and did it again when I ran the dishwasher), so we've been dealing with ripping up the carpet, renting fans to dry things out, calling the plumber, etc.
Thankfully John was off Monday and today since he worked the weekend and got off early yesterday, so he has dealt with most of it. We now own a wet-dry shop vac that has been used a bit :).
As of an hour ago, about a third of the basement is not carpeted and the rest still has carpet. I'm sure that insurance will only want to replace the damaged side, but since I think it will be impossible to match 10-year old shag carpet, looks like we will be getting new carpet in the basement in the near future. I'm thinking some kind of Berber would be nice. We shall see what the deal is with insurance. I've never had to make a claim before...but we do have some kind of sewer back-up/water coverage according to our agent. And I guess this kind of thing is why we have insurance in the first place.
The plumber informed us that there was a blockage in the outbound pipe that had been a long time in the making. And, although we have a 2004 disposal, our pipes are close to 60 years old, so we need to be very careful in our use of it. Another lesson learned.
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