And so the cleanup starts again. On Monday night our basement flooded with poo water AGAIN. This time instead of starting to clean it up ourselves, we got out the camera, called the city, called a restoration company and our insurance company. The City guys were on the scene within 10 minutes of calling them. I was quite happy with that considering it was 9:00pm. Turns out the sewer line on the street outside our house was super plugged. They fixed that and within minutes the poo water started draining through the drain in our basement floor. I guess I was wrong about it being our ancient toilet the last time. It was the sewers all along.
The restoration guys sucked out the remaining of the water and sprayed some kind of sticky antibacterial stuff all over the place. Because this is the 2nd time in just a week that this has happenend, the lino downstairs started peeling up. I had no idea how toxic this water is. I was not supposed to clean up the stuff the 1st time, apparantely everything this water touches is considered garbage. So, the past few days, i've been taking inventory as things go into the garbage.
This is a huge loss to us. However, on the bright side... Steve gets the ultimate christmas/birthday present of new flooring downstairs! The walls also have to be restored. This I'm a little sad about because we took so much time in painting every single wall down there when we moved in. I was very proud of my laundry room paint job.
Anyway, this will probably end up being a 2 month ordeal. We won't have our house to ourselves for quite sometime.
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