FYI: water may cause flooding

Q: How many towels does it take to soak up a wet basement?

A: at least 23

(we could have used more but didn't want to do too much laundry ;)

Let me explain.

It's been REALLY HOT around here lately. 70, 80 and almost 90 degree weather.

Tanner and his friend were eager to go swimming. Pools aren't open quite yet.

So we broke out the sprinklers this past Monday!!

The lovely hose was hooked up to this spicket which connects to our basement wall.

And that lovely spicket apparently burst this winter and had a nice split, which graciously allowed water to enter into our house and flood our basement!!!

So. Needless to say, we've been "swimming" in our own mess this week.

Landon and I noticed it Monday night after the boys had used the hose. There were damp sections of carpet and we thought maybe the boys had snuck in the house and dripped for awhile...a LONG while...

but as the night went on, the small wetness of carpet got

WORSE!

We continued to notice more and more crunchy, soggy carpet. That's when we figured there must have been a leak from using the sprinklers.

Landon and I started ripping our carpet up and finding water saturated everywhere!

We threw down towels and continued to rip and roll.

Oh what joy it was!

We ended up pulling half the carpet out and letting it sunbathe for the day.

Long story short we think we caught it in time, got it all dried out, and can re-lay it without problems. What a fun experience!

I needed to re-arrange, re-organize and do some deep cleaning in this basement.

What an extreme way to get it done!!