…make lemonade…with vodka.
Soooooooooooo…our neighbors upstairs totally sprung a leak in their bathroom. I’m not sure the exact story surrounding this leak but our landlord came over last weekend to “fix it” and just ended up making it worse. How typical, right? It’s like an episode of Home Improvement playing our right before our very eyes.
On Monday I had left for work around 7am and all was quiet; then Sterling got up about 3 hours later to find water pouring from the ceiling in the kitchen and a mini lake on the floor. Turns out when the landlord “fixed” the leak he put replaced whatever valve it was backwards which just made the leak 24934 times worse. Coming from a family of 3 generations of plumbers, I only have one piece of advice when it comes to do-it-yourself plumbing: Don’t. Because he wound up calling in a pro to fix it anyway. Skip the middle step, people. Don’t believe the Home Depot commercials.
The waster damage was more or less extensive. The upstairs bathroom floor, hallway and half a bedroom had to be torn out as well as half our kitchen ceiling and our entire kitchen floor! An extraction company had to come and place industrial strength dryers and dehumidifiers in our kitchen to dry out the wood so things can eventually be repaired.
I learned one thing for sure and that is that turbo fans are FREAKING AWESOME. It was pretty much impossible NOT to stick my head in them. At night when I washed my face guess what did the drying. Yep. In the morning when I washed my hair guess what did the drying. That’s right!! And it wouldn’t be right not to take any pictures, so without further ado:
here is our kitchen
awesome sauce
