Bowl of hot soup????

[Desk Jockey]

Bowl of hot soup????

How many times have you seen a light fixture full of steaming hot water? It's crazy when it happens but on multi-floor losses it's pretty common. This is one from a loss we had today, elderly lady forgot and left the faucet running in the master bath. It wet the bath, the bedroom and hall and part of the living room on the main level. the went down though the HVAC vents and ceiling and flooded a family room, hall and bedroom as well as unfinished concrete area.

 

[Royal Man]

Over 30 years ago I lived in a townhouse and all the light fixtures filled with water like that every time it rained.

 

[Desk Jockey]

That's crazy! I'm surprised they never had a fire there Dave.

 

[GCCLee]

Had water dripping in on the Main back last year. Kicked a couple breakers. Powerboard Buddy fixed it fur free!


How many boiled bugs Doc ?

 

[Desk Jockey]

You got it, it was Bug Soup!

Lots of work but the multi level losses always are.

 

[Hoody]

I always freak out when I see that, especially when the water is flowing OUT of the fixtures. I have this great fear of getting shocked, or a fire starting.

 

[Desk Jockey]

It's always boiling hot, as he pulled it down you could see the steam.

 

[Connor]

I had one like that in November, rental house and the ladies adult daughter stopped up the toilet and kept flushing it in a panic hoping it would go down. Let's just say she made a bad decision.

Water ran down into the lights down below, so she called 911 thinking the place would explode, fire department had the power company pull the meter "for safety". So, after this, the power company said they wouldn't re-set the meter until the county electrical inspector did an inspection. All of this happened at 5:00 pm on a Friday, so there wasn't a code official to inspect until Monday.


Richard, how do you handle water in fixtures like that, do you require an electrician to check everything?

 

[Desk Jockey]

Chris, we just do mitigation no reconstruction, we do pass that info on to the reconstruction company handling the job.

My guess is they replace the fixture. ?? I would if it were sitting long enough to get all crusty with mineral deposits and or debris.

If was just slightly wet, we would drop it down from the ceiling and make sure it was dried and I'd have no problem with it.

So really no hard and fast rule, depends mostly on time and the amount of water that flowed though it. In this case we know it sat at least two days, she was waiting for her adjuster to come out, they said get two estimates, once we saw it we suggested we get on it but she didn't want us there that evening or into the night. We returned the following day. The delay of two days cost the carpet and bleeding of some rugs on the main floor.

The tape had broke in the ceiling drywall and so we cut down the main section and dried the cavity and subfloor. My guess is they will pull the whole ceiling. Construction company's when slow, just replace far more than they should. : (

 

[Hoody]

The tape had broke in the ceiling drywall and so we cut down the main section and dried the cavity and subfloor. My guess is they will pull the whole ceiling. Construction company's when slow, just replace far more than they should. : (

AIn't that the truth! "We need to take the whole ceiling to get a better finished product". Or they want to remove a whole wall, instead of just the affected material.

 

[Desk Jockey]

As tight as insurance company's are you would would think they would be wise to that crap. We can save them so much vs replacement.

We push the "conflict of interest" against our full service competitors.

 

[GCCLee]

Right on Doc.If your scared you can always flip the switch huh, lol

 

[hogjowl]

It is amazing threads like this that keep me coming back here.

It sure ain't the videos!

 

[Mikey P]

Ok Fred...
Give him another time out.

 

[Desk Jockey]

It is amazing threads like this that keep me coming back here.

It sure ain't the videos!

I can point at you, then it will make you feel like you're watching one of those truck wreck video's.

Just a joke, please no Soup Nazi type emails!

 

[Connor]

AIn't that the truth! "We need to take the whole ceiling to get a better finished product". Or they want to remove a whole wall, instead of just the affected material.

Drywall is cheap and the insurance companies money needs to get spent. After Hurricane Katrina, many insurance companies denied claims based upon loopholes, like the wind is what ruined your house, not the eleven feet of water, so your claim is denied. I've seen some adjusters go all out on a restoration and other times, just want kilz encapsulation and paint baseboards.