Looking on the Bright Side.
Feb. 13th, 2007 03:06 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
swestrupI really am trying to look on the bright side when it comes to this whole sewer backing up fiasco.
We just had a visit from a representative of a moving, storage and repair company hired by our insurance. They'll be sending some folks over (no idea when yet) who'll pack up everything that wasn't damaged and store it temporarily at their warehouse. Once the basement is emptied, a different company will be sent over to tear up the crapulous (and now ruined) industrial carpeting in Linda's office, and they'll be tearing down the awful (and now ruined) paneling off of the walls. Then they'll thoroughly clean the walls and floors to get things properly cleaned.
After that, they'll be laying new carpet and/or paneling or something. We haven't talked to the company involved yet, and we don't know if they'd be willing to, for instance, put down a cheap laminate floor rather than the carpeting, or what. We'll have to see.
After its all been repaired, our stuff will be returned and the basement can be put back into shape. We had been talking about doing a bunch of this work ourselves, as the basement sorely needed it before the sewage backed up, and so this disaster has provided a kick in the pants, as well as insurance money to pay for a bunch of it. Similarly, I had been thinking it would be good to get a plumber in to ensure that our sewer pipes were draining correctly, and now that's been done. I hadn't wanted to do any of this at emergency speeds, and the timing of this is pretty bad (although had it happened in April, when Linda's business is working overtime, it would have been a much bigger disaster). So, I tell myself that its all causing us to do stuff we had been thinking of doing anyway, just a lot sooner and with far less planning. Maybe that's good, I dunno.
I do worry that the final bill will be higher than our total coverage though.
We just had a visit from a representative of a moving, storage and repair company hired by our insurance. They'll be sending some folks over (no idea when yet) who'll pack up everything that wasn't damaged and store it temporarily at their warehouse. Once the basement is emptied, a different company will be sent over to tear up the crapulous (and now ruined) industrial carpeting in Linda's office, and they'll be tearing down the awful (and now ruined) paneling off of the walls. Then they'll thoroughly clean the walls and floors to get things properly cleaned.
After that, they'll be laying new carpet and/or paneling or something. We haven't talked to the company involved yet, and we don't know if they'd be willing to, for instance, put down a cheap laminate floor rather than the carpeting, or what. We'll have to see.
After its all been repaired, our stuff will be returned and the basement can be put back into shape. We had been talking about doing a bunch of this work ourselves, as the basement sorely needed it before the sewage backed up, and so this disaster has provided a kick in the pants, as well as insurance money to pay for a bunch of it. Similarly, I had been thinking it would be good to get a plumber in to ensure that our sewer pipes were draining correctly, and now that's been done. I hadn't wanted to do any of this at emergency speeds, and the timing of this is pretty bad (although had it happened in April, when Linda's business is working overtime, it would have been a much bigger disaster). So, I tell myself that its all causing us to do stuff we had been thinking of doing anyway, just a lot sooner and with far less planning. Maybe that's good, I dunno.
I do worry that the final bill will be higher than our total coverage though.
