You know I take so many pictures every day and I must have taken well over 100 pictures of the floor for the insurance company and I never could get decent pictures. Even with the blinds closed, the sun comes through enough to make a glare on the pictures and if I waited til the sun wasn’t so bright, I needed lights on and the lights made reflections in the floor.
The insurance company was fine with the pictures I sent but I think, because they’re insuring a large business, they were super cooperative and said my pictures were fine, they saw what they needed to see. I think they realized we weren’t trying to get something for nothing. They offered for us to stay in a hotel while the work was being done and we said no . . we would stay in the basement; they told us if we needed to eat out while we couldn’t use the kitchen, they would pay for our food and we said no . . we’ll be fine.
Vince was able to replace the damaged ceiling in the basement and we cleaned up the water and except for a bunch of wet cardboard, nothing in the boxes was damaged. It was a lot of home canned food so we dried it all off and it’s fine.
It was an accident. It could have happened to anyone. We didn’t want to ruin anyone’s life over it and we only wanted to get our floors fixed and that’s happening. Our main complaint is that where the boards curled up, the varnish or seal over the wood cracked and you can see where it’s flaking away from the edges of the boards that were curled.
Even though it’s only the wood in the kitchen area and a small part of the breakfast area that is damaged, there is no break in the wood floors – breakfast room, kitchen, two hallways, dining room and foyer and for it to match, it ALL has to have whatever treatment the kitchen floor gets.
Here are some of the pictures I sent the insurance company:
You can see where the wood is dark in those boards. There is no seal at all in that area and I can run my fingernail along the boards and feel down between them. Every time I mop or if something drips, the water is going to go between those boards without a seal on them.
In the above picture, you can see the curled edges of the boards. Again, I don’t think it really looks that bad in real life. I think the sun coming in and the picture make it look worse.
Another picture of the curled edges on the boards.
The floor man said he would be here at 8:30. It’s almost that time. Let’s hope he shows up and gets this job done!
Sara Fridley says
Hopefully the repair work will all go well, and life can return to normal quickly.
Sandie says
Hi Judy- Not sure if you remember or not, but I sand and refinish floors for a living and we emailed a couple of times before about your floors. One thing you need to be aware of and watch for in the area where you describe the boards as being “curled”. After the raised edges are sanded flush with the rest of the floor and finished, they can actually curl the opposite direction down the road, creating humps instead of valleys. It happens because the sides of the boards are actually now thinner than the centers. It may or may not happen, but if it does it doesn’t happen immediately. Either way, if it happens, it’s still a result of the dishwasher damage and replacing the should be covered.
judy.blog@gmail.com says
I do remember your expert advice, which I always appreciate. The floor guy looked at the boards and decided they had straightened out enough that it wasn’t worth the risk of what your talking about so he just buffed up the floors (maybe lightly sanded them . . I can’t remember what he said and I didn’t go up there) and resealed them with Pallman’s Pall-X Gold. Hopefully this is all we need and the dishwasher leak will all be resolved and we’ll be back to where we were before. Thanks again for the advice.