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Disaster at the HakHouse

April 23, 2008

I’m making a note here, epic fail. Yesterday I came home from work to find the HakHouse a wet soggy mess. A pipe burst above the kitchen that flooded the entire downstairs and parts of the upstairs. Everything is wet. Everything is soggy. The place wreaks of fail.

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The cause? Crappy Poly-B piping. There was a class action lawsuit against the manufacturer years ago but sadly my stuff was installed too long ago to qualify for replacement from the consumer plumbing recovery center. Luckily I’ve got some awesome insurance and everything is getting taken care of.

These disaster recovery super heroes Service Master are at the house testing, cleaning, and tearing everything apart. We’re working with a contractor to have everything repaired. I have no idea how long this process will take but so far I’m hopeful that everything will be restored swiftly. Everyone I’ve worked with has been attentive and professional. Aside from the house being pretty much ruined downstairs everything is fine. I should note that as far as we’ve seen no equipment was damaged. I’m pretty sure this will put a strain on 3×10 development.

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I’m leaving for Springfield Missouri on Thursday and will return next Tuesday. I’ll try to get some pics of the progress from Matt or Paul while I’m out. More from the disaster can be found on this flickr set.

Did I mention this sucks? More coverage as this mess continues over at DarrenKitchen.net

Written by Darren · Filed Under Backstage 

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14 Responses to “Disaster at the HakHouse”

  1. LennyBoy on April 24th, 2008 1:38 pm

    That sucks.. GL with the rebuild

  2. tecster on April 25th, 2008 8:49 am

    damn that sucks do you have another location to hold the hack show? if not man that sucks even more.

  3. nicatronTg on April 25th, 2008 7:31 pm

    Man, that sucks! Fix it!

  4. DigiP on April 25th, 2008 9:11 pm

    Dude, I feel for you. Been there, done that. My mom’s house springs a leak every few months from old, old, copper pipes that wear paper thin from years of iron eating away their insides. Just be glad it wasnt a backed up toilet. When I lived there, I have had to clean up…well, I wont go there, but lets just say living on the lower floor and waking to the smell of something from the first floor, not good. You get the idea.

  5. Sanity on April 27th, 2008 5:44 am

    Man I feel for you! That is the stink poo…. I had a few months back a tree fall on my house and it sure did take a long time to get all repaired. TIP: Just make sure you check the repair against the assessments and that the assessor has assessed all the damage. Good luck!

  6. ‮tilnoom on April 28th, 2008 8:28 am

    ‮That’s gotta suck.

  7. name? on April 29th, 2008 2:09 pm

    “I’m making a note here, epic fail. ”

    nice portal meme going there

  8. Tim Perry on May 2nd, 2008 1:15 am

    That happened to me once, however it was in the bathroom and relatively well contained. Still sucks, I feel your pain. Actually yours is probably worse. Fortunately it looks like everything is going to work out. Could have been worse.

  9. Tim Perry on May 2nd, 2008 1:28 am

    P.S. Don’t worry about 3×10. I can’t speak for everyone else, but personally I would rather have a good episode of Hak.5 next month then a shitty episode now.

  10. DaveL on May 4th, 2008 2:09 pm

    Good Luck with it all…make sure they verify that mold will not grow after the repairs. Usually they remove all wet material and then put down a anti-mold chemical to prevent mold etc.

    A friend of mine had a leak that was repaired (incorrectly) and as a result had black mold growing in his walls which caused him breathing health issues until fixed correctly!!!!!

  11. Scorpion on May 5th, 2008 5:32 am

    Sorry to hear about that but at least it gives a reason to doing new cabling. I wouldnt mind if it was late just like Tim Perry and why couldnt it just hold on for one more esp as its the last one of the season lol.

    (”I see you can have an overflow buffer in real life and see what happens in the pipes :P “)

  12. Mekong on May 10th, 2008 8:06 am

    WOW, sorry to hear about the flood. I went through something similar last year and lost some equipment. I know how you must feel. Hope all goes well!

  13. Keith on May 12th, 2008 8:19 pm

    Feel bad for you guys. I’ve got two stories for you.

    1) I had to replace the lower heating element in my electric water heater. The water quit draining b/c the drain clogged. We thought it was empty. It was still half full when I took the element out…

    2) My mother-in-law’s sewage stopped up. She could not afford a plumber. I explained to her that I am not a plumber. My best friend and I went off to rent a big motorized snake, despite not being plumbers. Upon opening the clean-out, all sorts of nastyness poured out onto the ground. We put the snake down the clean-out and commenced snaking. We allowed too much slack in the line. The line wrapped arround my wrist tightly. In an effort to keep my arm attached to my body, I did a flip in mid-air keeping up with the turning snake as my friend rushed to turn it off. I still have my arm, but lost my pride as landed in the flooded puddle of nastyness. It hurt like hell. It smelt like hell. Its one of my favorite stories!

  14. Keith on May 12th, 2008 8:30 pm

    That Poly-B pipe on Flickr looks like the same crap we kept having to replace in my parents house. My dad replaced every bit of it with PVC.

    Praise God for Insurance

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