smack yourself in the face stupid {part 2}

to save ourselves $350 sean and his dad decided to rip up the flooring and subflooring after the kids went to bed wednesday night themselves.
who gets brand new flooring three days after a flood you ask?
a gal with family in the flooring business.
who had a cancellation in their schedule at the last minute,
and some pretty sweet flooring to pick from in the warehouse that didn't need to acclimate to a utah climate that's not georgia.
did you know that about wood?
it has to sit in your house before you install it?
because it expands and stuff.
or something.
so we threw all of our major appliances and kitchen table onto the carpet in the big room,
and everything on the floor in the pantry up onto the divider between the kitchen and the big room,
tried to put the kids to bed early,
which BY THE WAY was a total disaster.
of course.
chase wouldn't GO to bed.
might have been that 3 hour nap i let him take earlier that day,
which was such a good idea during,
but such a bad idea at 8:30pm that night.
like he climbed out of his bed about 10 times in the span of 5 minutes,
and after my big old belly couldn't lift him back in
and i didn't have any threats i was actually willing to anti-up and follow through on any more,
i yelled UNCLE!,
waved the white flag,
and brought him to the top of the stairs with me to watch the show.
then i gave him benedryl and waited for it to kick in.
sometime around 10:30pm he finally conked out.
during that time,
brennan licked max in her bed so she couldn't go to sleep,
max hit brennan because he licked her so HE couldn't go to sleep,
and so basically no one went to sleep that wednesday night,
and i was just really grateful the 4th gibson was quietly restrained inside of my belly
because lord knows i didn't handle myself very well in any shape or form.
not my finest mothering hour.
it wasn't pretty.

{would you check out that sweet vinyl the previous owners laid laminate RIGHT on top of? good riddance. never have i ever felt so happy to say goodbye to something in this house.}

{check out all of the lovely black mold that had been growing between the laminate and the vinyl for what appears to be a VERY long time. like WAY longer than before the flood.}

 {REMEMBER THIS PICTURE ABOVE. it will live in flood stupidy infamy.

particularly i want you to notice the water alarm. sitting on the counter:). the little white square box.

with the red dot on top. yeah that one. ON TOP of the counter. 

yep. cause we are JUST that smart folks.}

{sometime after midnight my father in law and i took an oreo break and he told me how these are the times in life that we will look back on and remember with fondness. we cheered to that.}

at 2am the last nail was pulled,

and all of the old laminate, vinyl, and subfloor had been hauled out to the side of the house.

we all staggered off to bed feeling so accomplished from a job well done,

and then we woke up 

the next morning to THIS:

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what are you looking at you ask?

the intake water hose that had un-duck taped itself from the sink AND REFLOODED THE KITCHEN AND BASEMENT CEILING while we all peacefully slept.

sometime between 2am when we went to sleep and 7:30am when we woke back up.

that's when the tape unstuck.

because when we uninstalled the dishwasher we found that the original flood may in fact have just been caused a leaky hose,

that dripped even when the water valve was turned off.

imagine the damage it could have caused when it was on full blast running a dishwasher.

wait...

like maybe it could have flooded an kitchen and a brand new basement ceiling?

just a theory...

especially since the second flood showed it's pretty little face in the EXACT same place as the first flood.

well the drip drip drip did plenty the second time it flooded as well.

because when it came untaped, 

it reflooded the whole D**N floor and the basement ceiling again too.

and i just felt STUPID.

i yelled for sean who was still asleep in bed,

to GET DOWN HERE!!!!

and i'm pretty sure i swore a lot,

mostly because i kept asking myself

why didn't we put something on that hose to hold it in place if the duct tape untaped?!

i remember thinking about it the night before for about 2.5 seconds, but being too tired to really be all that worried about it.

but mostly i just felt stupid that the water alarm was none other than

ON

THE

KITCHEN

COUNTER:)

yep, mmmhmmm.

stupid.

smack yourself in the face stupid.

because that little drip drip drip did so much that all of the drying out we did to avoid cutting into the basement ceiling was basically worthless.

when my contractor dave and frank the water restoration guy cut a hole in the basement ceiling that thursday morning i cried.

and then i started having an anxiety attack about how we had flooring that was supposed to be going in two hours from now, 

you know, on top of the SUPPOSED TO BE DRIED OUT wood floor 

that was now WET AND FLOODED AGAIN,

and how my cousins said they were booked three weeks out,

and was this going to mean we were going to have to live like this with all of our major appliances in the big room, everything from the pantry on top of the go between,

and mdf WOOD floor {not the kind i had in mind} everywhere for the next 3 weeks until they had another opening???

like was i going to go into labor and still be living like this?

this is what i was thinking that morning the dishwasher hose flooded the kitchen and the basement ceiling for a second time.

yep.

that's what she said.

the story of when our dishwasher flooded our kitchen and the new basement ceiling {there's PARTS}

if you like my stories,
you're gonna love this.
cause there's PARTS.
parts guys.
PARTS:)
that's all i'm saying.
here we go...

PART 1
first,
the basement got finished.
it smelled like new carpet,
and paint.
and it was amazing.
i made the bed in brennan's new room.
it was a sunday.
i started the dishwasher that night around midnight and went to bed feeling like i could see the light at the end of the tunnel.
we were there!
and i could hardly wait to get my little nesting paws on the house.
the next morning,
sean came downstairs to do paperwork at about 5:30am
to
a
small
pond
in
the
kitchen.
when i came downstairs two hours later to get brennan ready for school he told me the news.
very calmly.
there were lots of towels on the floor.
that's what i remember seeing first.

i freaked out.
mostly when he told me it had leaked down into the ceiling of the basement.
brennan's room to be exact.
and then the more we investigated the more we realized it was more than just wiping up the floor we were going to be dealing with.
wet carpet out into the dining area.
bowed up laminate flooring from one end of the kitchen to the other.
and the brand new beadboarded island dave had done two days before had to be ripped out all the way around the bottom.
oh, and it wasn't just one night of flooding, it was at least three.
this is what we gathered from the discovery of the base around the island that sean then remembered he saw water marks on saturday night when he was vacuuming.
the carpet under the kitchen table:)
and then i remembered that i had found the dishwasher hadn't run fully through on friday,
and wasn't that weird at the time???
but now it was making all of this sense.
and everything was coming together like this giant puzzle of leaking water mess.
so we called our water dryer restoration guy.
and i called the rc willey people,
and the fans and dryers and dehumidifiers and appliance guy flooded {no pun intended} our home that monday and tuesday morning.

after 3 days of brennan's basement room being heated to 90*F and an appliance man who spent 2 hours watching our dishwasher NOT leak a single drop of water, and sean and i laying on the kitchen floor for 2 hours watching our dishwasher with flashlights underneath while it ran NOT leaking a
SINGLE
DROP
OF
WATER,
it was determined that new floors had to go in,
and we were just going to have to have the appliance man come back out.
{actually i laid there with him for half an hour which was about 30 min too long for my heavy with child self.}

welp,
the next morning the rc willey people called and said there was nothing they could do where they found nothing wrong,
and that's when my desperation really hit rock bottom.
it's possible i MAY have lost it a bit on the phone.
i wasn't mean,
i didn't swear,
i just explained to michelle quite desperately that i have an entire kitchen floor being replaced and a basement ceiling that has flooded in saying that there IS in fact something wrong with it,,
and if they aren't going to send someone back out to fix this then i needed to know where to start sending all of these flood bills to because i wasn't going to just sit here and let my house keep flooding from a dishwasher that CLEARLY has something wrong with it.
she put me on hold to ask for a supervisor,
and i stood there feeling very irrational and a little out of breath,
and then she came back on the line and caught me off guard when she said they had decided they would replace my old dishwasher with an upgraded new one,
and when would i like that installed?
i stumbled over my words for a minute,
told her i wasn't expecting that and thank you very much,
and felt a little embarrassed for getting so worked up,
then i scheduled a time for the new dishwasher to be installed,
and wondered if maybe they were the ones that got off ahead by just giving me a new dishwasher.
cause man they offered that up pretty fast.

{my mama's tied and true tested method for dishwashing without a dishwasher. soapy water all day folks. just keep adding them in. then rinse at the end of the day, and dry overnight. one week of that was plenty for me to want a sprinkler in a box back in my kitchen again.}