Sewer back up :(

Here's some pictures from our sewer back up... I might have posted them on the main blog but they belong here too :) I believe it was May 20th or so and the boys informed me that the basement toliet had overflowed! Argh! Going down stairs, we realized that it was everywhere! The plumber came & retreieved a bunch of 'clean' tampons flushed by our youngest, Restorex came and started their 'disaster clean up' procedures and we thought we were on the road to recovery! Next day: went downstairs and discovered that the bathtub was full again, the mechanical room floor had grunge water again & obviously there was STILL a problem! Plumber came back again with a camera, to discover that the exterior pipe had FILLED with the tempoarary driveway crushed rock. Earlier in the spring, a pipe (now capped off since the driveway is complete) and been broken off and then once the ground started thawing, the ground crumbed a bit and the rocks fell in, plugging the system solid! We didn't know whether we would have to excavate the driveway base (already poured last year) or whether the vac truck would be able to come and hoover out the rocks! Thankfully the latter was possible and the bill was about $600, instead of into the double digit thousands!!! So we went back to our Days Inn hang out for a couple nights (we still drive by and the boys want to know when we can stay at the hotel again - we also lived there for three weeks while waiting for the house to be finished as well) and thus began the long chain of events regarding an insurance claim!

Affected carpet is ripped out

Industrial heaters are brought in to dry up the place

Day two... obviously we STILL have problems