In May of 2010, a minor disaster struck at our house. Our new septic system worked beautifully for most of its first year through a summer, fall, winter, and most of spring. At some point, a happy little gopher decided to do some digging (we think?!) and made way for irrigation water to find its way into our drain field. So one morning, after a night of our neighbors flood irrigation, we found our basement under 5 inches of water. The water had filled our drain fields, ran over the top of the septic tank and flooded into our house. Not the best thing to wake up to.
Because the water had run backwards through our septic system, it was deemed "black water" and EVERYTHING that it came in contact with had to be removed. We (or I should say our insurance company) hired a disaster clean up company to step in and take charge.
After all of our low lying objects (washer, dryer, air hockey table, theatre seats, and cabinetry) were removed, the disaster guys tore out all of the flooring, doors, and trim and then cut out the dry wall (3 feet up from the floor). Then they began a floor disinfecting process that took several days. Our furnace rests on the basement floor, so they had to disinfect that too.
Here are a few beautiful pictures...
The return of the horrible orange floor!
After the disinfection/destruction process was complete, we began the process of rebuilding.
We re-redrywalled and repainted. We tiled the laundry and utility areas and we installed new carpet. We put in new trim and doors and we purchased a new washer and dryer. We were able to salvage one row of theatre seats because they were up on the riser and never came in contact with any water. We couldn't find a new matching set, so we decided to put a sectional couch in instead.
Although the process was stressful and involved a lot of work, we restored out theatre room to (even better than) it's former glory. All's well that ends well!
