Just a portion of our week..

D has fallen asleep dropping Logey off at school.

Since he is napping

I am deciding to attempt to type a little

before I we have to go get our Biggun' from school.

Here we are 4 days before our Baby is 3.

The Rogers' chaos continues.

We had a lull and here we are now

back into it.

When we moved in we got a new fridge.

There was not one here

and

in order to sell our

other house they wanted the fridge.

So, Lowe's dropped it off

and

wouldn't connect the

ice maker due to new codes

and

our line was plastic.

New codes are using a flexible metal line.

So, since days run long

Andrew on Sunday night (our 1^st night of all 5 of us sleeping here)

hooked it up

and

went into the crawl space to turn on the water line.

Yup..the parts

(Insert long lapse here..potty issues with D..no nap done, hope to type more later)

Starting at two days later..

The parts from not being moved for months

had dry rotted or rusted or something

needless to say a huge gush of water

and

Andrew in the dark now covered in mud

had to run up to the street and turn off the

main line of water to our house.

He went to the store twice to try to get new parts.

It failed.

So now we had no running water

except for our outdoor spickets

which are attached to the well

the house originally had.

I sent Andrew out with a stock pot to fill

and

heated it on the stove so he could wash the mud off

and

we went to bed.

A plumber came first thing to fix it

and

we decided to to have the water/ice maker

connection

installed behind the fridge

like it is in newly built houses.

That way if a problem occurs we can turn it off

NOT from the crawl space.

Well, since then I have heard

on and off trickling sounds

but see no water

and

when Andrew gets home it is quiet

so we forget to look.

We have learned that some new fridges

have a non removable drip pan

and

possibly it was something

dripping into that.

Well, I am having by giant bouts

of exhaustion.

I fell asleep at 7p

on this past Sunday.

Andrew heard the drips!!

He checked it out!

So GLAD he did.

He called the plumber because the

line they installed was leaking.

They came out first thing

and

when he spoke to them they said,

“OH, you guys must have got one of the bad lines.”

Yes, the plumber repaired it

and

then contacted a water damage company

they work with.

Yes, WATER DAMAGE.

After 2 month

we have wall studs that are 100% saturated (per the tech's hand held meter)

our tile is saturated, drywall is also.

So our fridge is in the middle of the kitchen.

A humidifier is in the area sealed off.

AND

there is one under the house sealed off.

The hope is to dry it all out.

They sprayed a fungicide on the stud that

was black and white discolored.

The issue is the old owners sprayed

foam insulation

underneath the house.

They may not be able to get the sub flooring to dry out

and

if that happens

(after at least 5 days of dehumidification)

we will have to replace our kitchen floor.

It is tile it will have to be 100% new floor and possible sub-flooring.

Yup our kitchen out of sorts and cluttered. If you look closely at the kitchen light
you will see the drain line taped on the ceiling so we don't trip on it
AND it is draining into our kitchen sink.  (don't worry it is a push drain it can go against gravity)

Yes, just a bump in the road. An inconvenient and annoying one.

The dehumidifier noise gets to you after a while.

They will be out today to recheck it all.

Add to our Cooper dog issues, he just had his vet recheck this week.

Things don't look good.

That in itself is a post of it own

on my view/reasons for it.

Our chaos rolls and “time marches on”

so we keep on..

Like I have said before, not gracefully,

we try and we fail

we are human.

We just get back up and try again and again and again...