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So, I totally forgot to take a picture yesterday of the hole. Can you just trust me that it was big? By the time I get home today HOPEFULLY the outside of my house will be perfect, totally repaired and all future leaks prevented. The inside of my house is yet another story. The insurance guy came yesterday and after only being there 30 seconds took one look and said "oh no, this is not covered by any home insurance policy. This is hidden damage from water and insects. There is nothing we can do to help you." This almost sent me into tears. But then he asked if there had been any inside damage. When I said yes, he told me that he could certainly help us with that!
His recommendation is for Sam's room to get new drywall (since huge sections of it will be removed today to repair the rotting exterior of the house), new floor boards, new carpet pad and carpet. YES NEW CARPET! And then in the kitchen where we had water leaking we will have the cabinets repaired, wallpaper removed, new wallpaper (we hate wallpaper, so we will paint) and cabinets painted. YES FRESH PAINT IN THE KITCHEN! The stuff in Sam's room we were not planning on doing but who doesn't love new carpet. This does mean that since we are replacing one of the two rooms that has ugly bright blue carpet I want to go ahead and replace the other room's carpet as well; whatever. But the stuff in the kitchen we had talked about doing anyway to update the kitchen a little bit now that we knew we would no longer have water coming in. So this was really great news.
Right now Sam is living in the guest room. The bad part about all of this is that the roofers will fix the exterior damage today and remove all the damaged parts of Sam's room (drywall on two walls and a large piece of the floor) but because we are not totally sure what the insurance company is going to cover we have to wait on doing the repairs. We will get a recommendation from them on a contractor to use, get the work scheduled and then have it fixed. It could be a very long time before Sam is back in her room. She doesn't seem to mind.
So that is the news on our house.
Happy Wednesday!