Garage disaster

Irene McC

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We have a broken pipe coming from our daughter's granny flat above the garage, which must have been leaking for some time unbeknown to us.
Everything is mouldy - we're clearing it out now with masks on - my car is outside and we hope to find a plumber available in the morning
Essentially everything you see needs to be thrown out. The whole box marked "mags" is magazines with my published photos and articles.
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We have a broken pipe coming from our daughter's granny flat above the garage, which must have been leaking for some time unbeknown to us.
Everything is mouldy - we're clearing it out now with masks on - my car is outside and we hope to find a plumber available in the morning
Essentially everything you see needs to be thrown out. The whole box marked "mags" is magazines with my published photos and articles.
Wet through

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Oooh, nasty. Such a pity about your magazines. I do sympathise. Hope you can salvage most of your stuff.
 
We have a broken pipe coming from our daughter's granny flat above the garage, which must have been leaking for some time unbeknown to us.
Everything is mouldy - we're clearing it out now with masks on - my car is outside and we hope to find a plumber available in the morning
Essentially everything you see needs to be thrown out. The whole box marked "mags" is magazines with my published photos and articles.
Wet through
So sorry, Irene.
 
That's horrible. Something similar happened to my neighbours, who have a cellar which sometimes floods after heavy rain. They had wooden shelves like those in your picture, which they assumed would keep various stored items dry if and when water got in. Important things were put on the top shelf, where they would be at least risk. Unfortunately, when the cellar flooded a few years ago the wooden shelves started to float, eventually tipped over and everything was pitched into the water. Christmas decorations, old school reports, family photo albums - it all got ruined.

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Please be very careful with the mold. Particularly your husband.

I grew up in South Louisiana where the mold ran rampant and the accompanying health issues.

We had a neighbor whose lung cancer was directly attributable to living in a house with mold during a rehab after flooding.
Thank you for this warning !! How absolutely horrible - very sad to hear. We did wear masks while clearing out the stuff and my husband only came to look, but went back inside and left us to it.
 
That's horrible. Been through that twice in my life....hope no one ever has to deal with anything like this. :(
Yeah, had it happen a couple of times, Andrew @gryphon1911 .

Floods in Adelaide in the early 1970s, got into a few tea chests of stored belongings in the garage.

Again just after we moved to our current home in late 2006. The valley gutter between the main roof and the garage overflowed, and destroyed all our tax records ;) :) :ROFLMAO: . Sent the tax office photos, and haven't had a letter of demand from them since ...

Not all flooding is necessarily bad ... ;) .

When we did big renovations a couple of years ago, the pissy little valley gutter (~75x50mm) between the garage and main roof was replaced with a 300x100, with a secondary overflow. Along with a new garage roof that had slightly more slope, and a new main roof on the house, prior to installation of an 8 kW solar system.

Unlike your problem, Irene, nothing of significance was damaged in either occurrence.

I'm very sorry that your photos have been damaged.
Are they recoverable?

I can highly recommend the Epson FF-680W for fast scanning and repair of anything up to A4/Quarto size prints.
 
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