June 17, 2013

I haven’t updated this blog for a long time and I apologize to those of you who follow it.  There hasn’t been too much to write about.  The clean up continues.  The inside of the houses is 99% clean and we are still using the dehumidifiers to suck the moisture out of the houses.  Jack showed me today what a good job the dehumidifiers were doing with the moisture tester he borrow.  Right after the flood, he checked the sheet rock with the meter and was getting a reading of about 50%.  Today the same place was getting a reading of 5.2% and that is about normal for sheet rock .

I also got a good feel for how well the dehumidifiers were working when I got started on cleaning out my garage this morning.  I had to move a lot of shelving around to clean up the mud on the floor of the garage and noticed that the walls had a lot of mold and mildew on the sheet rock.  I had not put the dehumidifier in the garage and it shows.  I will now have to take out the lower 4 feet of sheet rock off the walls and remove the insulation as well.  At least it is in the garage and will not be as messy as it would inside the house.  I will get started on it tomorrow after taking Margaret and Jack to the airport.

I think there is going to be more work like this for a long time to come.