flood, day 3

Last night I felt fine (just tired) until I sat down. Then everything stiffened up. Today I felt like that all day.

I started with carrying wet things from the basement to the garage. Then the moisture abatement guy showed up around 11:30. He said they'd bring in two dehumidifiers and a dozen fans. The dehumidifiers clear about 75 gallons of water a day, compared to one or two that ours does. They're also going to drill holes in the walls and run tubes into pump warm air inside the walls to dry them out.

So then I started moving things around so they can get at the walls. When I was done with that, the dumpster arrived, and I went back to carrying more garbage upstairs.

And after supper we went to a concert.

flood, day 4

Today I pulled off the baseboard, so they could drill holes in the drywall and force air in. I put the cover back on the sump. Carried up some more garbage. Cindy filled the dumpster with what was in the garage.

The moisture mitigation crew showed up around 2:30 with two dehumidifiers and seven fans. The humidity seems to be around 80%. They didn't drill holes in the drywall. The salesman told me they'd do that, but it wasn't listed in his quote. So I guess he decided it wasn't necessary? Or maybe that piece of equipment was tied up? I'm a little annoyed that I went through the effort of taking off the moulding, tearing up some of it, some of the drywall, and some of the carpet tack-strips, but I guess that will help it dry out too. There was mold behind the moulding in a couple of areas.

The fans aren't quite as noisy as I thought they might be. I wish there were more of them. All but one are in the finished half of the basement. They'll come to take them away on Tuesday.