r/HomeImprovement • u/HumanistPeach • Feb 17 '20

Contractors just flooded my upstairs while replacing water heater, it’s raining in my kitchen- what to expect next?

So our water heater died this weekend. The repair guys just came over today, and promptly flooded all the water that was inside the old broken water heater onto my upstairs floor (carpeted), and there was so much that it immediately started pouring from my kitchen ceiling out of two hanging light fixtures. It definitely spread quite a bit, because there are two patches in the drywall that were invisible before that are now obvious, and the seams of at least two sheets of drywall are showing/swollen with water. We’ve already put the business’s insurance in touch with our homeowner’s insurance, and my boyfriend does all the IT for this company, so I’m not worried about them trying to screw us over, I’m more just looking to see how long I should except repairs to take, what the potential repairs might be, etc. TYIA!

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u/[deleted] Feb 17 '20

This article may help you:

https://www.safewise.com/home-security-faq/house-flood/

You may want to shut off the breaker going to the ceiling fixtures, but it should not be necessary to turn off the whole house.

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u/HumanistPeach Feb 17 '20

Done already (the bf thinks quickly under pressure thank goodness!) but I’ll check that out now! Thank you!

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u/[deleted] Feb 17 '20

Best of luck to you guys.

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u/HumanistPeach Feb 17 '20

Thank you. This is not how I wanted to start my week. At least they had Girl Scout cookies at Walgreens this morning

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u/[deleted] Feb 17 '20

Oooh! I bought the shortbreads when I was at WalletMart. Love those puppies......

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u/HumanistPeach Feb 17 '20

Right now the Samoas and Tagalongs in my fridge are all I’m looking forward to at the moment 🤦‍♀️