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I don't know why Our Lord insists on punishing me solely via plumbing leaks, but he's done it again. The toilet broke right before I got in the shower and sprayed/leaked/whatever all over the floor for 10 minutes: I shut off the water and threw a shitload of towels down on the floor and then ran downstairs to this:  Except that's like an hour later, so it was a lot worse before. Threw down a bunch of towels and tupperware containers and then came back later and replaced them with better/deeper containers:  I called Servpro and they sent out some people. Last time I had a leak I didn't call someone like them and my insurance company said I probably shoulda so this time I did. They put tape all over everything:   Then they did this, I'm not sure why, but I hear spray paint sounds coming from inside it so I think maybe they're going to paint a motorcycle in there or something:  Then they told me they were gonna take a lunch break so I was like cool, while you're doing it I'm going to run up to the gas station and get a pint of rum since I had to take the day off and since this sucks rear end I might as well at least be drunk for it. Except when I was about to leave one of them came back in and asked to use the microwave and I said sure and now 25 minutes later he's still sitting in my living room using his cooler as a chair and eating his lunch and watching youtube videos on his phone. I'm gonna try and get a picture of him but if he sees me doing it it could get awkward. Sorry this thread sucks but I figured people could laugh at me and tell me how much this is going to cost and probably point out why I'm an idiot.
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Jun 27, 2016 20:54
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Now they brought in a bunch of these things: and these things:  And they put plastic all over the place which the cats hate walking on so it's pretty funny to see them trying to go up and down the stairs using the 3" that isn't covered by plastic, but I think they must have put it down for some reason beyond that:  I didn't get a picture of the lunch eater, right after I posted the other two guys came back in and they went back to work. Maybe I'm a weirdo but it seems pretty loving odd to me to sit in my living room on a cooler eating your lunch while your two coworkers are sitting out in the vans. I should make the bastard go buy me a bottle of rum.
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Jun 27, 2016 21:03
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OctoberBlues posted:It's too bad you let your insurance lapse and this is going to cost $36,000 My insurance is built into my mortgage payment otherwise I would undoubtedly have let it lapse. But I'm sure they'll probably now drop me and I'll have to get whatever the home insurance equivalent of SR-22 drunk driver car insurance is.
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Jun 27, 2016 21:10
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They finished assembling the spray booth and went outside, I think to get the motorcycle frame. 
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Jun 27, 2016 21:11
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Captain Yossarian posted:They are going to murder OP in that "clean room" and he's just letting them build it poo poo, you'd think I'd have figured that out, I watched the first four seasons of Dexter. And they're in between me and my guns. What do I do?
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Jun 27, 2016 21:18
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Now they rigged this up, I think so all my blood will get sprayed outside for easy hosing off once they're done with me. But while they were doing it I crept past them and got to my guns, so now I'm sitting in a kitchen chair eyeing them suspiciously with an AR-15 on my lap.
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Jun 27, 2016 21:30
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poo poo, they just brought in two Sawzalls I think shits about to get real. I totally saw this episode of Dexter.
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Jun 27, 2016 21:33
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Dave_Indeed posted:So if the leak is in the bathroom why is he in your living room tearing up the ceiling? I'm not sure. I tried to ask them but I'm not sure they speak English.
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Jun 27, 2016 21:34
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Now there's two guys in the booth and one guy outside the booth. I think they leave one guy outside so he can steal things when I'm not looking.
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Jun 27, 2016 21:42
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Minimalist Program posted:that's a sex tent. I do think they might be using the noise of the Sawzall to hide the sounds of passionate lovemaking in there.
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Jun 27, 2016 21:43
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Zorodius posted:ask them confusedly if you gently caress in the smoke tent or smoke in the gently caress tent  I should totally leave it up and then smoke in it and give my gf the finger and tell her that I'm smoking in the house and she can't do anything about it.Except for leave me, which she would do immediately.
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Jun 27, 2016 21:48
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There's a lot of crashing and banging coming from inside the sex tent now. Either the sex just progressed to the angry portion or they're ruining my artisinally hand scraped solid cocobolo floors by dropping chunks of drywall on them.
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Jun 27, 2016 21:55
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Absolute Lithops posted:Why did you line the containers with paper towels? Because it was splattering outside of the containment vessels when it was just hitting the plastic/water.
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Jun 27, 2016 21:56
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jackyl posted:probably because he didn't know how to shut off the water supply and drain the tank Water was shutoff within seconds and draining the tank wasn't actually relevant, smartypants.
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Jun 27, 2016 22:07
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Two guys are still in the sex tent. Guy outside the sex tent is loving chatty cathy and won't stop talking about other jobs he's worked on.
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Jun 27, 2016 22:12
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Just got emailed the prelim estimate. $2,210.17. And that's basically getting rid of the water and drying everything out, I'll still have a massive hole in my ceiling when they're done. This seems like a scam. It's like $4.12 to rip out a baseboard and $9.49 to tear out wet carpet pad and then $362.80 to rent their lovely fans and dehumidifiers.
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Jun 27, 2016 22:19
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Three Olives posted:Only correct answer is to own a condo. FYI condos are for poors unless you live in a Manhattan or SF skyscraper.
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Jun 27, 2016 22:20
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SLICK GOKU BABY posted:Of course its a scam, you had an emergency plumbing issue and called these guys, now they get to charge you whatever the gently caress they want too. The plumbing issue was essentially already fixed (and these guys aren't going to fix my toilet anyway), this is just an semi-emergency drying/potential mold issue.  Tbh I wouldn't have called them if I weren't: 1. Paranoid about mold. And it's not that I'm really paranoid about mold, it's that I'd be worried that not spending 4 grand now means the house needs 20 grand of mold remediation 3 months from now. 2. Planning on moving before the end of the year and either selling the house or renting it, and I'd rather not lie on my sale disclosure and/or kill a nice family with horrible mold spores.
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Jun 27, 2016 22:46
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Three Olives posted:It's true, I am very much middle class. How many square feet? I hope for 590 you have two pools and 12 hot tubs and a 9 hole golf course and 24 hour AR-15 equipped security guards to keep the poors out.
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Jun 27, 2016 22:48
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poo poo, they started the baseboard and carpet pad removal. This is getting ugly. I should have just let myself be killed by mold.
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Jun 27, 2016 23:06
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But they're done in the sex tent, so pics: 
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Jun 27, 2016 23:09
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Can anyone give me some tips on starting a GoFundMe so that as a middle class American I don't have to be inconvenienced by an unforseen expense? It seems like this is pretty common now (one of the Star Citizen devs did it a while ago when his daughter broke herself falling off a retaining wall) and I would like to also cash in on the good will of idiots.
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Jun 27, 2016 23:11
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THE DOG HOUSE posted:edit how weirded out were they by you taking 900 pictures of equipment They didn't even notice. I'm discreet. e; Selena's front two teeth are kinda hosed up. I just marked her down by 0.2 in my mental rolodex.
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Jun 27, 2016 23:24
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jackyl posted:I wonder if that cutout is exactly 4x8 otherwise why bother p sure it's not.
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Jun 27, 2016 23:27
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Safetyland posted:Did you get the rum down? I never got a chance to go get any because I'll be hosed if i'm gonna let some stranger sit on a cooler in my living room eating his lunch and watching youtube videos while I'm not in the house. But I did find a bottle of See 7 Stars Moonshine Apple Pie Corn Whisky, so I managed to soldier through and am now pleasantly buzzed and not as upset that I just got randomly hosed out of 1-5 thousand dollars.
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Jun 27, 2016 23:45
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Three Olives posted:My upstairs neighbor caused a mini flood in my house and I had one of these for two days, I seriously considered checking into a hotel because god drat they are loud. Checks out, 75% of my house now sounds like Lockheed is gearing up to do some wind tunnel testing on the F-35 (and then ignore the results).
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Jun 27, 2016 23:49
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Infyrno posted:If they leave their drying machines overnight put wet clothes on top of them. Hang a clothes line in the sex room. So far I'm only planning on zippering one or two cats into the sex tent, just to gently caress with them, but this is a good idea too.
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Jun 27, 2016 23:50
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Here's the evil demon toilet that caused all these problems, and the air dryers that I'm renting for more than federal minimum wage per hour: Two more and a dehumidifier in the bedroom:  Two more in the closet: 
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Jun 28, 2016 00:02
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jackyl posted:shouldn't those actually be blowing under the carpet (like your mom lol) Nah, they check the moisture and it didn't get more than 6 or 12" from that wall, the blowers are to dry out the drywall and subfloor and bottom of the studs.
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Jun 28, 2016 00:06
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