ARE YOU SHITTING ME?

 Last night, as I was getting ready for bed, I walked up the hallway to use the family bathroom.   I do that every night, so I don't disturb Stew in our room.

Anyway.... I walk up the hallway and SPLISH,  SPLOSH, SPLASH!

ABOVE:  OMFG, our hot water cylinder has shit itself, and the entire contents of the cylinder is on the floor.

I'm like, are you shitting me?   AGAIN???

We had this happen to our hot water cylinder in Palmerston North.

We also had two house floods in our Auckland home.   

I can't believe this has happened again.

ABOVE: Steve came around to help Stew work out how to disconnect the hot water, and the gas, while leaving us with cold water for the loos! 

I am expecting to hear from the Insurance Company this morning, and a cleaning company to come and dry it all up.

ABOVE:  The first job to do today?  Hang all this wet linen outside.

Thank god there was ONLY this much on the floor of that linen cupboard.

ABOVE:  I've taken 80% of the remaining linen out, including the shelving, and just dumped it on the spare bed.  There's one more shelf to empty, I'll do that in a minute.

I'm already over today!  And I haven't even started to sort this shit out.

But... we are lucky!  We are not down south and having to deal with our entire home being flooded with filthy flood waters.

Small mercies.

NEXT .... I didn't hear back from the Painting Company that was supposed to come and do a quote for our job yesterday.

Poor form.  I gave them an alternative time and day they could come, but they didn't reply.  So now I don't know if they are coming then, or not? 

In the meantime, I've contacted another company, and hope to hear back from them soon.

Steve is also working on getting us a quote.

I always knew it could be difficult to get this job scheduled... there is such a shortage of trades people now.  

I am expecting Bex and the boys this morning.  Bex has to do their grocery shopping, and I offered to watch the boys.  She'll get it done much faster without them in tow.  

And well... that's it for now.

Catch ya later.

9.45 am:  Progress.

A plumber is on the way, Thanks Steve!

Chemdry will be here with their dryers late this afternoon.

It sounds like we will have to cover all the costs of this mishap.  'Wear and tear' ain't covered by insurance.  But any damage caused by the water will be covered.  

I'm sure they can dry the carpet out. The only damage might be skirting boards.

The boys just arrived, so I've got company.

11.15 am:  And the painter arrived bang on time!  Nice guy too.  He will have his quote to me in a couple of days.  And then it will be 'around' 2-3 MONTHS before he can actually do the job.  😐  Good things take time right?

Just as he was leaving, the plumber arrived.

ABOVE: He sussed out the cylinder, declared it dead and said he would get a new one.  We might be out of hot water for a week ... or two. 😱😭😖

I have a headache.

ABOVE:  And.... let the noise and humidity begin!

It's 3.15 pm... finally got someone here to get the floor dry.

ABOVE:  So, three days of that noise.  

He's coming back to check on the dryers each day, so I can't go anywhere.

Not that I had planned on going anywhere really.

But you know how it is, when ya can't, ya WANT TO.

This really was the last thing I needed to happen, but thank god it didn't happen AFTER we got the painting done, and new carpet!

I am in a foul mood now... and craving KFC for dinner!  So, that's what we shall have I do believe.  

9.21 pm:  OMG that KFC burger was amazing!  It was the first full meal I've had in two weeks. 

Time to get comfy, watch a little TV then head off to bed.

Catch ya tomorrow.