Wait!?!?!? Is that water?

Yeah, you see this guy. He is a bad, bad boy. He decided that he wanted to flood my house. And do a lot of damage. And cause me to have to rip up my floors. And cause strange men to frolic through my house at all hours of the day. And to cause blowers and dryers to put out 110+ degree heat when it is already 110+ degrees outside. That's right folks, my washing machine decided to flood my house one day. Apparently there was some kind of crack in the wash basin and therefore leaked a whole loads worth of water into my house. This is what I had to deal with!!

Here are the pups surveying the damage and those really loud, hot things that magically appeared in our home! We ended up having to pull up the wood floors in the living room and the hallway due to water damage. Not the best thing to happen after being on vacation for over a week and having mountains worth of clothes to wash! It took about two weeks by the time the floors dried out enough to put down new ones and for the new floors to get put down. Not fun at all! Not to mention the fact that the whole time my house was turned upside down. For a while there, I thought TLC would have to come in and film an episode of Hoarders by the way my kitchen looked! Epic fail on the having to shimmy sideways to get anywhere in there!!

Yes. Super gross. But it turned out to be a blessing in disguise I guess. Got new floors and we expanded the wood floors to go into the bedrooms as well. We did this because we will probably never get this place sold, so we will have to rent it out I'm sure. So we thought that wood floors would be way better for renters than carpeting! We decided to go with a wider board this time. And hand scraped to hide any imperfections!! Here is the before and afters!

Sorry about the first picture, but that's the only one I could find that I had on this computer!! So that is the saga that is our floors/washing machine fiasco. Don't you just love unexpected home repairs?

On a positive note. I get something even better than new floors. I get this:

The ROOMBA!! It is a robotic floor vacuum that you can program to clean your floors for you. Otherwise, I would be doing nothing but sweeping all the time. I will let you know once it arrives how well it does. I think I am gonna like this bad boy!!