Disaster pix...yuck, Renovation needed

Bathroom spewed with iron sediment from burst hot water piping

Iron sediment dripping down walls from flooded floors above

Ceiling and floor damage..it all had to go

Note the footprints in the water soaked carpeting

soaked ceiling tiles dropped to the floor below

Bathroom below flooded by burst pipe upstairs

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

Burst Pipes, Disaster History

Bathroom covered with iron sediment after pipe burst emptying hot water tank contents onto bathroom 

 It is amazing how much one broken plastic nut can cause. That is the story with this mess. The plastic nut on the hot water line into the upstairs bathroom faucet caused all of this. So much for plastic nuts, and two story houses.

The pictures tell the story of the resulting damage. Hopefully as time goes on, and the goal here is six months, it will all come back together somehow. I am going to post the distaster photos in all their glory

They will progress from what we found when we returned from vacation to recovery, the photos will tell the story of the deconstruction and reconstruction of the house.

I hope that shortly it will reverse and I will post pictures of the rebuilding. The jury is out on that part. This blog is the story in pictures!
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This mess seeped its way from the top of the house to the bottom: the house was gutted as a result of this burst plumbing. Check out my other postings at http://housedamagephotos.blogspot.com/