Before and After, In the beginning....

Before: the burst pipes disaster

We did have a beautiful cottage. Everything was clean and perfect. We worked tirelessly to save the money to buy it, and very obsessively to make it perfect, clean and up to date. It was a perfect residence for escaping the world and tuning into nature and the water. It was bright, had beautiful water views and beautiful waterfront location in a lovely community of delightful neighbors. Then the damned nut on the hot water faucet split open and ruined the whole house while we were away to New York on vacation. Nightmares in day time soon prevailed. I will record what is happening here for our friends and family. It is really unbelieveable to anyone who knows the place and knows us, to think it has come to what it is right now. We might as well have been located in hurricane Katrina, when you look at what the burst pipe wrought. http://housedamagephotos.blogspot.com/

Here our story and photos begin. They will go on, and the tale will go on while the whole reconstruction and demolition continues. Drama, that's all I can say to describe it. Lots of drama.

We entered through the kitchen door, on the left is what it looked like when we left for vacation. Below is what we found when we came in the kitchen door.

After:ceiling on floor, inches of water, iron sediment from the hot water tank which emptied after the pipe burst

The floors are flooded and the ceiling is disintergrated onto the floor. It soaked and then collapsed crashing onto the floor below.  As I said, lots of drama.... 

Kitchen flooded with water seeped from flooded bathroom abov,e resulting from a bust water pipe