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To: Bratch

We owned a rental house in a suburb, Jersey Village, and were living in Canada.
The real trouble started when it thawed out.
I got a phone call from a screaming tenant, an undecipherable mix of Mexican, Spanish, and English. Evidently the ceilings in every room had collapsed along with a large quantity of loose attic insulation.
I had not known it, but building codes allowed plumbing to be run in the attic rather than below grade. It all burst, and wet drywall doesn’t work well with waterlogged insulation.
Luckily my Brother in law was in the construction business, and he knew plumbers who had the pipes fixed in 3 days, and the drywall fixed in a week.

I heard some people had to wait months.


19 posted on 02/12/2021 4:09:24 PM PST by WayneM (Two things are infinite: the universe and human stupidity; and I'm not sure about the the universe.)
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To: WayneM

Yep....there was a LOT of that happening, all across the Houston area.....waterlogged insulation falling through ceilings.


50 posted on 02/12/2021 6:41:56 PM PST by Jane Long (America, Bless God....blessed be the Nation πŸ™πŸ»πŸ‡ΊπŸ‡Έ)
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