I’ve received my first two seed catalogs, for ordering seeds, for my 2018 garden. The Whole Seed Catalog was given to me by my sister. She came up for Thanksgiving to visit and see the changes made since the water damage to our house.
Before I continue on, I wanted to say I hope everyone had a
wonderful Thanksgiving. I know I haven’t
been around much, and I apologize. Life
threw us a curve ball, with the pipe coming apart under the house and our wood
floors turning into hard waves…..pretty much like you would see in the movie
“Tremors” with the actual ground.
All the mold, and water damage has been removed. Our floors have been replaced and we now have
our home back (6 days before Thanksgiving)!!!
We didn’t leave the house while all this work was going on. The crew worked totally around us for 10
whole weeks.
On my last real post, I provided y’all with a sample of the
wood flooring being installed in our home.
Now I’m going to provide you with a few pictures of the new flooring for
our two bathrooms.
Because the flooring in each bathroom had to be totally removed to get to the sub floors, we had to replace the tile, not just on the floor, but in each shower to match.
You’ll notice there’s still some work to be done in each
bathroom, like painting the ceilings, mop boards, changing cabinets, lights,
and blinds. Adding towel bars, vents,
and caulking a few places. These
projects will be added to our list of things to do, and will be done at our
convenience. The water damage was
something that had to be addressed immediately, therefore we had no choice, we
had to get tile and have the bathroom floors tiled.
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| Hall Bathroom Before Fixing Floor |
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| Hall Bathroom (need to remove & replace cabinet, blind, & lights) |
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| Shower Changes |
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| Master Bath Before Fixing Floor |
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| Master Bathroom After Fixing Floor (Need to still pain mop boards, need to replace towel holders,& lights) |
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We have purchased water alarms at Lowes, and have been
installed them throughout our entire home, near ever pipe and appliance using
or holding water. We’ve placed 6 alarms in our tight crawl space to prevent
having a pipe issue ever again. Water alarms vary in cost depending on the make
and model purchased. We picked up The
Watch Dog Water Alarm, Model BWD-HWA by Glentronics for approximately $11.00
each. The alarm has a sensor on the
bottom of each device. It also has a 6
foot sensor wire so you can place the box anywhere and run the wire near the
water source. It was easy to install, and should prevent a water accident from
happening again.
One of the water alarms went off two days ago. This alarm was set next to the water softener
inside our laundry room. Come to find
out the water softener machine had a small crack in one of the hoses. Water began to drip, a small amount from the
line causing a 110 decibel alarm to go off.
The alarm could be heard down the driveway. Our son Tank and Bulldog Man came running in
the house to find out where that alarm was coming from, and fixed the
problem.
**Note, I’ve not been asked to advertise, or received any
compensation from Glentronics.
I picked up these alarms to avoid the disaster from ever
having a plumbing pipe come apart/break ever again. This will immediately notify us about
problems in the crawl space, and hopefully avoid major damage again.
