FLOODING Pt-4
So where were we going to get the money to redo the house. This is a house, well kind of. Originally it was nothing more than a two-room summer place, more like a camp then a house. Through the years different people added onto it until it became a house were people actually lived. By the time we bought it, it's been added on here and there and whoever did pretty bad work. I don't think there is a straight wall, floor or ceiling in the place! I'm being serious about that!
The floors sag, the ceiling lean as well as do the walls. One of the biggest mistakes someone made was adding onto the living room. When they added on, the end sunk causing the ends of the floor joist to lift the floor on the opposite end that it sunk and also made the ceiling slope. Even a worse theng thewy did was they took a supporting wall, the wall that sat on the foundation and moved the whole wall back to make the room bigger. By doing this there was no support under the load bearing wall which caused the floor to sag and it also lifted up the ends of the floor joist. So now where the floor joists met from the room they built on, and from the floor that was sagging caused a big hump in the living room.
For the longest time I wondered why that big hump went across the floor after ripping the floor up I found out why. The ends of both floor joints from the sagging floor and the addition were high. In the end I cut the high spots of the floor joists off but I didn't want to take too much off. It helped some but there is still a hump, just smaller.
In the end we ended up building on all four sides of the house to make it bigger and what a freaking mess that was! It's like you can't make anything straight. About the time you got something figured out, it turn out it throws something else off at the other end, so the only thing you can do is to deal with what you have and do the best you can with what you have to work with. Of course now some things I would have done differently.
Ok, now the big question... where was we getting money to fix the place to make it liviable again? We kind of rebuilt this place once and I really didn't feel like doing it again. The only ones to do the work was my wife and I. So now we needed money!
Bad luck, good luck. If you watch the video in the very first post you seen our truck which is the blue 2010 Nissan Frontier. But we also had a second vehicle, a 2009 Jeep Wrangler. When we got flooded, we moved the Jeep further up on a hill by the house but didn't move it up to far because there was a utility trailer sitting there. Beside that the water wouldn't get that high with only 2-3 inches or rain what they were calling for, not the 8 inches that we got!
Being we stayed all night in the truck on the other side of the road we couldn't see the Jeep and I thought it was ok. Well, it wasn't. The next day when we could return to the house the Jeep got flooded also. Water got inside to half way up on the seat. The first thing I did was check the oil to see if any water was in it, there wasn't. The Jeep started right up and we ended up going to town in it, but the clutch kind of felt funny.
The next day the wife went to go somewhere in the Jeep but when she tried starting it, the Jeep would learch forward. Turns out the clutch wasn't releasing. You could get it to neutral and start the Jeep but you couldn't get it in gear then. I'm pretty sure the slave cylinder got messed up from being under water.
So now our Jeep got flooded and wouldn't work. Of course we didn't have flood insurance and even if we did, I don't think it would cover the Jeep. We did have hme owners insurance so we called them to have it fixed. Turns out they would take the Jeep somewhere and have it cleaned up and repaired.... "if" water didn't get inside the Jeep. If water got inside they would just total it.
Turns out they totaled the Jeep. Didn't really want to lose the Jeep, that was bad news! The good news is that we got more money for it then we paid for it!
Now we had money to redo the house........
I know everyone is wondering what we got for the 2009 Jeep Wrangler. Well we paid $18,000 for it when we bought it, had it for fives years and it was paid off, but we ended up getting $20,000 for it from the insurance on it. And believe me, it took all of that and more to fix the place back up. Even though the inside is pretty much completed, there is still a lot to do on the outside.
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