UGH!
Can life at the Lowell Home get any worse? After our trip to PA. we decided to close up our home in Lowell and wait to see what the Lord had in store for it. When Ace went to winterize our home and turn off utilities he opened the door to hear water trickling. Not a good sound to hear. Ace walked into the house with 2 1/2 inches water on the floor. He spent a good deal of time cleaning it up thinking that was all that needed to be done. However, when bringing me to the scene I told Ace there is no way we could leave and go back to Arizona and leave the house this way. There was mold growing between the floor boards and I knew it was just going to get worse. The damage was a lot bigger than Ace had thought.
You can see the mold seeping through the cracks that only means that there is moisture under it.
We took the end trim off and saw standing water.
After talking it over we decided to check with insurance to see if this would be covered we were pretty sure that it wouldn't be covered but we had to check.
After checking with Insurance we discovered it was covered after a $1,000 dollar deductible and that wasn't really something we had but God knew that.
We hired our friends who helped us with prepping our home to sell it. We figured who would better know our home and care for it like we would. When they looked into all that needed doing we discovered what had happened. A pipe in the bathroom wall had rusted out and gave in. It then filled the wall with water until that gave out flooding 5 rooms. The drywall soaked up a lot of the water. Needless to say the damage was more than $1,000 and the insurance kicked in.
This is the bathroom where the pipe broke. The cabinets were trashed as they were made out of particle boards.
James 1: 2-4
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