So, it's Wednesday and this week has been absolutely brutal for me. Sonya and I are having carpet installed in our house this week (thanks to a Christmas bonus) and we had a couple of squeaks in the floor of our nursery that needed to be looked at. My dad sent a couple of his guys over to take a look and see if they could fix it. They figured out the problem pretty quick and determined their course of action to fix it. I stood there, watching to see exactly what was making the floor squeak so bad.
Turned out to be a small problem. The nails that were driven into the bottom plate of the interior wall separating our guest room and nursery were not in the right place. Each of them missed their corresponding floor joists and they had worked loose. So, every time you step, the nail rubs and you hear a god awful noise.
The solution was to cut the nails so they wouldn't squeak anymore and secure the wall to the floor with some screws. Good idea right? Well, we all thought it was. But, it's not a good idea when you don't know about a sprinkler line running in that wall. It was no more than 45 seconds when water came gushing out from under the wall. And let me tell you, water was EVERYWHERE!
It covered most of the floor upstairs. The nursery, guest room and hallway. Luckily I had already removed all the carpet for the installers (call me cheap, but I figured I could do it myself) so we didn't have to deal with that. We were grabbing everything we could find to soak up the water. I had to run down to the basement to shut the water off. Luckily the main valve is in a place that's easy to get to or we would have had even bigger problems.
Long story short, I had water coming into my living room in two places. There were a bunch of spots on the ceiling that were wet and would have to be repaired or repainted. Luckily, my dad has a lot of contacts so we were able to get a sprinkler installer there pretty much immediately to fix the cut line so they could get everything cleaned up.
Yesterday and today painters came by to repair the drywall and paint the ENTIRE ceiling over again. I just had it painted at the end of the summer, so that was money down the drain. Our house is a complete mess and won't be any better until Friday when the carpet is installed and we can FINALLY clean it from top to bottom.
Of course, to top it all off... Sonya's parents are coming into town Friday afternoon. It's going to be a rough couple of days between now and then!
