Our Finished Floor

Finally, our kitchen floor is finished! It looks better then ever, I am glad we went through that whole ordeal to come out with an even better kitchen. Our contractor was wonderful and his crew did a beautiful job. I couldn't be happier with the results!

We started out with this. A nice kitchen with your standard kitchen tile. Honestly, the kitchen is what sold me on the house. It is huge for a 60s ranch and the counter space is great. It also has a open, bright feel. One on my favorite parts is the little bar the over looks the living room.

Then this happened. The leak. The tile cracked and the floor seeped water. We called in the professionals. I anticipated a a quick, inexpensive fix. Unfortunately (I thought), that wasn't the case.

The floor had to be completely ripped up and we had these huge machines up for two weeks!

This is more of the sub-flooring then I ever wanted to see

AND THEN...

Here is a close-up of our beautiful floor

TA-DA! I never would have imagined that I could be this happy about a tile floor. It's weird the things you get excited about as a homeowner!! It nice having "our touch" on our house. It really feels like it is our home.

Yay kitchen!

They have been fixing our floor all day today! Update coming!

Kitchen update

UPDATE: The floor is finally dry and the dehumidifers are gone. Now all we have to do is make sure the insurance pays us what we are owed!
So our kitchen is looking worse then ever. As I write this a crew is in here ripping up the tiles. Who would have thought that a refrigerator could cause this kind of damage? Hopefully it's not as bad as it looks. Our insurance better pay up.

In the background is the dehumidifiers, which are still a part of our daily motif.


What at mess.

Our Kitchen Troubles

Update: The insurance is trying to weasel out of paying for the mold damage, even though they are the reason that we have mold. We are in the midst of fighting with them.
Our ice maker was leaking onto our kitchen floor and caused the floor to buckle and the tile to crack. I insurance guy waited too long (11 days) to get the company that gets rid of moisture to come out and clean under the tile and we now have MOLD!! Right now the kitchen has two large dehumidifiers in it to get rid of some of the water and it's been sprayed with anti-microbial spray. On Monday we begin phase two; closing off the kitchen with plastic and drawing the air out of the room to create negative pressure to get rid of the mold! We have to take everything out of the kitchen and not be able to us it for at least two day!

CRACKED TILE

There's mold under there

Two giant machines taking up our kitchen