The night we were having the cousin sleepover, we found a flood in our basement. Luckily we had been gone all evening, and the kids went to bed shortly after we got home (although they stayed up talking way too late:) Dave and I got to make calls to Dave K. and Dad and then the 24 hour sewer company and the ServPro flood guys. It was quite the adventure that lasted until about 2am. Luckily, the worst of it was taken care of by the time the kids got up in the morning. We should have taken pictures of the damage, but didn't think about it until after the worst of it was already taken care of.
Since we had to redo the carpeting downstairs, we figured we should paint while we were at it. Since we did a ton of the work ourselves, moving furniture, ripping out carpet, painting, etc., ServPro gave us a credit and with that we were able to put it towards carpeting the family room at the same time. It was a HUGE PAIN to move out the furniture (sectional, bookshelves, entertainment center), but so worth it to get new clean, soft, comfy carpet.
The kids were so excited to see the new carpet when they got home from school. They just layed on it and did cartwheels and summersaults. Kinda wish I didn't have to put the furniture back in.
Dave really wanted the carpet, and so I insisted that with new carpet the old gray linoleum would look really bad. So we picked out some new tile-looking linoleum (for the kitchenette) that matched the carpet. Ahh... so much better!
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