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I don't see the water damage? You've already ripped out the sheetrock and insulation. Tiled floor held up well. Was the leak upstairs?

Edit- Reread it, leak was upstairs. How is the subfloor?

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Already ripped out sheetrock and insulation. Sub floor is fucked.

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How much standing water was in the basement after all that? Looks like +/-10" from the staining on the basement studs.

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Thats the first floor, p&b house. Water company shows 2 swimming pools worth of water ran in the house

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That sucks. Looks like someone cut some excess off of a frame and hit the pipe with a Sawzall. My house they never glued the top of the "in wall, behind a cabinet downstairs" upstairs shower trap so the shower would leak only when someone drained the tub, normal use was fine. By the time I found it, 20 years had passed.

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Pipes froze and burst on the coupling. Its texas and nobody ever expects it to get that cold.

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yeah, TX got a bit colder than normal.

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It was in the teens in central Texas two/three weeks ago.

E; guess you have to winterize any home in the lower 47 (FL excluded)

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Florida excluded? Tell that to the orange growers. It can get below freezing in northern Florida.

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Always keep heat on in empty houses in winter.

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How do you ward off mold?

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Oh theres mold. Waiting on insurance to either say rip it out/sand blast or total the house. Either way is fine by me.

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What a nightmare.

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Good grief, what a mess.

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It doesn't cost anything to pay attention.

It can cost a shit load if you don't.

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I agree, though i make money when people like this dont pay attention

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Nice, this is exactly what I do for a living. Floods and fires. Mostly floods. I have been right at this point many many times.