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Flood damage 29.05.18
Hi all
After having a fantastic bank holiday weekend, we came back
to find that our carpets were damp and found that the storm on 26th
of May had flooded through the front wall cavity and shorted
some of the sockets.
As if that wasn't enough, the rain hit again and did a proper
job this time, collapsing 4 ceilings to the front of the
building. But it still wasn't done and the sheer volume of
water in our area burst our toilets, to completely flood the whole
building.
I have to say that I am extremely impressed with www.capitalandcounty.com/ our fabulous
brokers, who managed to have a loss adjuster www.vrsvericlaim.co.uk/ out first
thing the following day and he arranged the clean-up
team www.belfor.com/en/gb to be here within 3
working days. This was no mean feat, given the volume of
claims they must have at the moment.
On the Wednesday, I sorted our temporary HQ and had portacabins
from www.cwplant.co.uk arrive on the Thursday, with
our IT guys imprezait.co.uk getting us up and running
again and http://www.firstoffice.co.uk/ sorting out
our phones.
I was very happy with the progress, right up until we plugged in
for the internet and the connection was dead. Yup, the flood
had got that too, further up the cable, so no remote working over
the weekend to catch up, still no phones and another
issue to resolve :( Amazingly BT got an engineer out on
the Saturday, who established it was an underground fault, which
was finally resolved on the Tuesday, so one week after the flood,
we were back up and running.
They say there is a silver lining to every cloud, but having a
completely unplanned refurbishment is a very thin silver lining
:/
On a personal note, I am happy to say that after all the stress
of this, my daughter has given birth and I now have my Grandson to
cuddle and make me smile :)
I hope you never have to go through my last couple of weeks, but
if you do, I can highly recommend all those I have given links for
above :)
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