Mold, rot and a cherry on top

Yesterday I walked into the house to see this. That would be the master bathroom floor laying in the master bedroom. Lets look closer

This would be where the water went all the way around the bathroom and under the master bedroom hardwood floors. They are now warped and damaged.

If you look to the bottom left you can see the water damage better

But wait, step inside.


Then you can see the mold. The builder buddy was pulling up the old floors and came across this

Lots and lots of black mold.

This is a close up of the flooring he had pulled out. Both sides of the wood were covered in mold

This was the piece that went around the toilet

MOLD!!!!!

Today I walked in to find out that under the bathtub/shower were WARPED FLOORS! They removed the tub and found this. Look close, in the middle left of the picture you can see the wood was so warped all of its layers were seperating

The entire section to the right of the pipes had to be removed (pictures of that tomorrow). The builder told me that had we not caught this the bathtub would have actually fallen through the wood. NEAT! If you look down those holes you can see directly into the downstairs bathroom.

Close up of the massive water damaged floor under the tub. Every day we find more shit to repair!

One more close up just so I can stress THERE WAS A FUCKING LEAK. IT MADE THE FLOORS WARP AND FALL APART. BATHTUB WOULD HAVE SUNK IN. MOTHERFUCKER RENTERS!

Almost looking down into the guest bathroom

The master bathroom totally gutted, you can see through into my secret hiding space (aka my attic)

It's a bird, it's a plane, no it's.......

SUPER BUILDERS

3 trucks worth!

Under the sink is all ripped out. This is the future home of a garbage disposal, just to the left, those cabinets are the future home of a shiny stainless steal dishwasher

How many builders does it take to change a light bulb?

My dad ripped out my old cook top. That is the future home of a shiny new gas stove. I will get pictures of the giant trench they dug to run me a gas line

I walked upstairs to find the pink sink and floor laying in the hallway

The pink bathroom is no more. I've also been advised that they will be repainting the pink tub white. I didn't even know they could do that. I guess there are special bathtub repainting shops.

Walking into the master bathroom I discovered the cabinets laying in a pile.

By by purple sink and ugly cabinets

We have been advised to list these old funny colored things on Craigs List in San Francisco

They are also pulling out the rotten bathtub in the master bathroom and putting in a shiny new Shower. In the downstairs bathroom they will be moving the water heater and putting in a shiny new shower. In the boys bathroom they will be ripping the weird doors off the bathtub, repainting it and fixing it all up into a shiny new tub.

Bob the Builder

Insurance had us bring in a builder to give an estimate on repairs. Things are worse then I thought. Water damage has moved from bathroom to master bedroom hard wood floors. I really hope insurance approves this because the house is increasingly becoming more then we can handle.

Someone mentioned that my one month goal seemed to short in a comment. That goal was back when I thought we only needed to paint, install appliances, and put down some new kitchen floors.

Everyone keeps bugging me to pack. I'm not packing. I have family coming in the weekend of the 2nd for Brandons birthday. They are staying with me. I refuse to have my house in disarray when they come here. Also, unless we get the builder approved I don't feel like we will be moving in anytime in 2008. I have another party coming up the last day in August. I already sent out invites with the new address. The builder tells me he can do it in time. My mom says, "ehh, if not we just have the party anyway...only at a big empty house."

Yeah, because that's not weighing on my nerves!

The parents went to lowes. They picked out a new gas cook top. My dad is cutting in a gas line for me so I can have a gas stove instead of electric. I'll take some pictures of the massive disaster today at work and post some updates!

Holy Shit

I came across these pictures the other day. They were taken while the renters still lived there to show us the cabinet color. We gave them 24 hours notice that we were coming in so they could get cleaned up and stuff. This was at 8:30 in the morning. Look at all the shit on their counters left from the night before.

Crusted food on the stove, look at all the bottles and mess on their counters. If you look close you can see the table they used as an island that the bottom of the picture. They left their ketchup out. Ewww. Also on that table was a plate with caked on stale nasty food, and cigarette butts galore. I can't believe they wouldn't have cleaned better knowing we were coming over.

This is under the house. You can see the water leaks, and water damage.

There should not be water under the house (left of picture)

More water leaking under the house

My dad was framing in the refrigerator cove. That nail gun is so powerful it was shooting little sparks out with each shot. That thing scared the living shit out of me!

The remaining junk they left behind. I've decided I'm keeping the cute little table though.

So. You want to take a shower huh? Hmm appears to be some stuff in there. I wonder why?

OOOOOO because there is a giant hole in my shower. Umm interesting huh. Yes, seems the water leak was determined to be behind the shower. The insurance company brought in plumbers who had to cut a hole in my shower. At the end of the day the insurance company has told us to bring in a builder friend of ours to help out. Looks like I will be getting a brand new bathroom, along with the boys, and most likely the down stairs.

A close up of the neat little hole in my shower

Water leaking down the wall

I've determined that we will not be moving in by the end of the month. Sooo I am now shooting for the end of August. I hope that works out since I used the new address on my husbands birthday invites. I'm excited by the prospect of a new bathroom that is not so, umm, PURPLE!

The crazy thing is that it seemed like fate that we had to move in, and the renters lease was up. I mean can you imagine how much worse this would have been had we let them renew their lease and continue living there KNOWING there was a leak and not telling us? I'm really glad the insurance company is offering to help out too. I hope we are able to get the builder in soon because this is turning into a lot more work then my dad and husband can handle on their own.

Which one of these things doesn't belong

I walked in and found this.

Hmmm what is that pile of wood? Odd. Let me go inside and see.

Ooooo I see, my stairs are missing.

Does anyone else wonder why half the wall had to come off to pull off the stairs?

Odd, my toilet is gone too. I found it sitting in the driveway.

Dad and Rob framing out the new refrigerator space. They had to do this because "someone" just had to have a bigger refrigerator. No clue who that could be though.

My most favorite part of this house remodel is watching my dad and Rob hang out. They have never had much in common so it's nice seeing them hang out and talk. My dad has been teaching Rob all kinds of stuff. Last night when we were about to leave my dad sat there giving Rob instructions for the next night. (pictured above) He prattled on and on about measuring this and cutting that and my eyes rolled back in my head, but Rob just listened and tried to retain. I thought it was so cute. Rob gets off earlier so he will be there before my dad, I can't wait to see if he remembers everything my dad told him.

Not sure what they did

I wasn't there last night. All I know is instead of working on the house my husband and dad made a trip to Home Depot. I'm not sure if I've ever told you this but my dad IS NOT ALLOWED TO GO TO HOME DEPOT UNSUPERVISED or he comes home with A LOT OF STUFF!

From what I've been told there are talks of fixing and redoing bathrooms (not originally planned), and since it was only my husband and dad there it seems there was some secret talks about a pool table.

The things my dad says when my mom and I aren't there!!!!!

I'm pretty sure pool table was never in the original remodeling plans? I could be wrong, but, I'm pretty sure it wasn't!

Demolition Derby

Welcome to my spare bathroom. This would be where we found the mold as a result from the "secret" leak the renters didn't feel like mentioning. Here is all the insulation pulled from the walls.

This would be mold covering the insulation

The backside of the walls

The inside of the walls with mold and rot

More of the wall and house frame

How my spare bathroom looks now

Sadly my walls now live in the trash

Insurance came right over. Since mold was involved they treated it as an emergency. Luckily it looks like we will be able to get some money to help with repairing that bathroom. Hopefully it is enough there was a considerable amount of damaged.

**Not pictured, the giant humongous spooky spider that was inches above my head while I was taking photos. I guess they tried to kill him last night but he was to quick.