The interior damage to our home.

Two weeks ago when I first posted here about the tree falling on our home, we didn’t know at the time the damage going on inside of the house. Our house has suffered extensive interior damage from the tree.

We realized a few days after the tree hit the house that our bedroom carpet – and the carpet in the master bath (that I hate) was getting wet. Very wet.

A plumber confirmed that the tree had indeed hit the roof where the vent stacks for the master bath plumbing was located and shoved it down in the walls about 2 feet, breaking all the plumbing pipes and shattering them on the basement floor in the basement bathroom.

What was originally thought to be just roof damage quickly became a whole master bedroom, master bathroom, and basement bathroom remodel project in our future.

The damage estimated is well over $40,000 at this point.

The contractor assigned to our claim from our insurance company has removed our carpets, sub-floors, and part of the basement ceiling in the last week as well as install large fans and dehumidifiers to dry out the water in the walls and between the two floors.

The water damaged flooded down in the basement bathroom and bedrooms.

Currently the estimate for the repair work is around $25,000 but we are still waiting on final approvals to start the work.

Overall, we have lost some rafters in the roof, all the floors and ceilings in the master suite, including the walk-in closet walls because it is the plumbing wall for the master bath, and all of the walls and ceilings in the basement bathroom.

The next few weeks/months are sure to be an adventure we didn’t have planned. I will be posting updates along the way.