Thanks, flood water
This past Sunday and Monday, Seattle (and pretty much rest of the northwest) was hit with heavy rain that caused flood in many areas. We’ve been in our house long enough to know we had a leak in the front concrete stoop, but we failed to protect it once again. The water came in from the unfinished area of the basement, and it traveled to the lowest part of the house, which we unfortunately learned is our office.
I was so freaking busy at work this week, so I didn’t have time to do anything about it — which was super frustrating because by Thursday we could smell the mold growing on the carpet. Lucretia had wisely moved some things off the floor by Monday evening, so not much was damaged. But we knew the carpet had to go.
So today, I finally had some time to get down there and rip up the smelly carpet. First I had to move everything to the TV room, which is also in the basement but seems to be safe from flooding because of its slightly higher location.
Here are two photos to compare what the office used to look like, and how it looks now. The concrete floor underneath is looking decent, a small consolation because we didn’t know what kind of nasty mess we would find under the soggy goodness.
There’s still a lot of work left — we have to scrub the floor, rip up the molding, install new molding, and paint the floor. We’ll probably keep it uncarpeted until we figure out the leak situation.
MINORU!!! I don’t know how I found you. Some Google misstep that presented the name Minoru, which brought you to mind. Further digging and voila! Anyway, sorry to hear about your flooding. I do have a recommendation though. Try FLOR products if you feel the need to carpet the floor again. These are carpet tiles that are fairly large, very stylish, reasonably priced and if they get soggy, you can pluck them up lickety split and dry or replace. Just a thought. Hope you and Lucretia and the cats are well. Tell everyone I said hello. Take care!!