After spending the weekend removing most of the remaining items from our back room and moving everything in the dining and garden rooms away from the outside walls, our kitchen contractor sent over a couple of guys to check out how bad our water intrusion problem was. Pretty bad!!
Carolyn was up early to welcome them and has been updating me throughout the morning before tiring of the stress and running away to Marcia's for a knitting get-together. But this is what I know: the carpet was extremely heavy with water in the back room and they could barely get it out; the were sweeping water out of the back room through the rear entrance; they were ripping out drywall a few feet high to allow it to dry out; termites have taken up residence in our back wall; water is coming through the slab and back entry door; the stained glass windows are apparently in really bad shape with wood rot; and the construction in the back room is probably not up to current code (big surprise).
The couches that Ashley and Bryce used in Pasadena may go the way of all donations to Goodwill or the Salvation Army as they may some damage themselves (we'll have to help acquire a newer sofa when they finally move back) and we're trying to go through our stuff to see what we can rid ourselves of.
That is our joy for the beginning of the week, but we are extremely glad that we still have a home (we love the upstairs)and that it hasn't slid down a mountainside as a few have during our current heavy rains nor have either of us been hurt.
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Thanks, Ash. Mom could use cheering up as she had hoped that all was pretty well what with the finished kitchen remodel. But all will be better. Now we have to think about flooring, etc.
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