Trials and Tribulations

Why is Home Insurance so expensive!??!? Well...maybe it's cuz when things happen.. they're there to answer. My insurance company, which shall remain unnamed, but is a very famous alliterative letter, was teeter-totting on not covering this mess cuz I didn't pay enough attention to the leak.  How am I suppose to know that the back of the fridge is leaking?!?! "You shoulda looked."  Can't win... simply can't win.  But luckily... they decided on covering water damage but not mold mitigation. 

I got the refrigerator guy to come out and diagnose the problem after struggling with paying the $80 service fee.  $80 for you to come out and look?!?!?  What if I don't want to repair it.  Geeez.... Then I stepped into another negotiating battle with a slimy repairman.  This is a dog eat dog world... if you're not vicious.. you will be swallowed alive.  

The Disaster Restoration guys show up... and off we go.  Demolition.  Confine space.  Air drying.  Mold mitigation.  But we didn't want them to demo too much... only to the places where the fridge will cover up.  They HIGHLY recommend removing all the wood that has moisture underneath.  I crossed my fingers and hoped that the moisture will eventually dry up... so we don't have to bother finding the same wood... same stain... same craftmanship.  No luck. 

Hardwood floor guy came... and said... you just gotta do it.  Bite the bullet.  Rip off the bandaid.  If it doesn't match... it doesn't match.  It's better than living with mold and buckling floors.  Lo and behold... the wood we chose, happened to be discontinued and unpopular these days.  Even if we wanted to... we can't replace it.  So now we're stuck going to Floor Shops, Home Depot, Lowe's... trying to find engineered wood that remotely matches the color.

And then... I had to call our potential renter to break the news that this house might not be ready by the beginning of June.  Ohhhhhhhhh..... when did life get so complicated?