Today, after months of delays, my home renovation is nearing completion. Well, it was nearing completion. Last night, a pipe burst, flooding the entire house. The water damage will cost more to repair than the entire renovation. FML
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Fall
Dead leaves, the first cold of the season and an umbrella flipped inside out: fall, the season of grace.
Today, I finally started a DIY home improvement project I'd been putting off for a while now. As I was drilling into the wall, I managed to hit a plumbing pipe that I didn't know was there and started flooded my living room. FML
Today, I came home from work to find my house was flooded from a broken pipe under the sink. My house had just recently had new wood floors, carpet and electrics installed because 6 months earlier my house had been flooded by the same pipe breaking. FML
Today, my husband and I were finally about to put our house on market because we have killed our savings on moving and two mortgages for the past couple of months. Then the pipes burst. Awesome. FML
Today, workers came to my house to fix residual moisture damage in my walls left behind by Hurricane Irma. Said workers then burst a water pipe and flooded my entire apartment in the time it took figure out how to turn it off. FML
Today, after moving into my new house, my partner's father came to give us his old sofa. Now, an hour before he has to leave, he's half-completed 3 DIY jobs we didn't want done in the first place, and smashed my water inlet pipe. I have no water and a destroyed kitchen. FML
Today, our boiler broke. Yesterday, it was our fridge. The day before that, the deck collapsed, and a few weeks ago the dishwasher flooded the kitchen. This is after we spent a ton of money to have the house gutted due to a mold problem. We only bought the house a year ago, and have lived in it even less. We need to move. FML
Today, my crew was called out to do some house maintenance. We were nearly done, when someone had the goddamned fucking brilliant idea of washing plaster off their hands in the kitchen sink, which clogged the pipes. Instead of getting paid, we now owe for damages. FML
Today, I overloaded the washing machine and it flooded the downstairs. The flooring will have to be scrapped and drywall replaced. It's 100% my fault. Did I mention this is not my house? FML
Today, I was excited by the thought of the bathroom in my rental being replaced after the plumber advised that the leak can't be easily fixed. Instead, the owner has decided to fully renovate and is kicking me out. FML
Today, after house sitting for my future father-in-law and managing to keep things spotless for 3 weeks, a pipe burst. It flooded the place and shorted out a plug socket, causing a fire that ruined the front room. He gets home in 3 hours. I'm screwed. FML
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notgoodatthis 0
Insurance?
pjsr 33
The contractor is responsible if you're using one. Homeowners if you're not.
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Comments (13)
notgoodatthis 0
Insurance?
sheeron 3
That is what I was wondering
S0meWhiteKid 5
ha rekt
kelardy 11
Wouldn't your home owner's insurance cover this type of thing?
pjsr 33
The contractor is responsible if you're using one. Homeowners if you're not.
cootiequeen4444 11
would a contractor be responsible IF they had NOTHING to do with the pipes in the house? This is a house renovation, not a complete house construction. Could just be a lot of making the house open floor plan or creating another floor or something that would not necessarily affect piping. The original pipes might have just been old as frick and this was the (sudden and unfortunate) warning sign to do major plumbing work.
jcash52426 5
That's why you have homeowners insurance. On the plus side your won't have to look for a contractor and he will be happy to do more work for you.
mikelangele 15
aren't you insured?
False_Stupidity 42
It's either YDI or FYL depending on whether you have insurance to cover this or not.