Saturday, August 29, 2009

Waterproofing the basement after the leak & mold

We had a really bad storm about a month or so ago where 2 tornados came through our area (I didn't know that there were tornados at the time, and I was out in the wind and rain chasing down our runaway trampoline and garbage cans. Note to self: check weather before leaving the house when it gets that bad again). Our street had a lot of trees down and some damage to houses. Luckily, we didn't have any major damage (just a power outage and some tree limbs down), or so we thought. After a few days Wyatt started developing a cough and when we were in his room it smelled funny. At first we thought that Schnoz, one of our cats, had peed on something again (he pees on our stuff periodically), but after Ryan investigated a little more, he found that Wyatt's room had mold/mildew in it from flood water. So, we had to move Wyatt out of his room to clean it up. Ryan decided that we needed to completely rip out Wyatt's room and waterproof the walls to prevent water from getting back in again. So we removed everything from Wyatt's room and the playroom, knocked the wall in between down, and made it a storage area. Wyatt was a big help to daddy as he was waterproofing.





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