Getting over our flooding damage

Guest post written by Daniel Forester
Last week we had a pretty big storm. I think that it was part of Irene and a leak that we didn't know about on our patio sliding door led to some flooding in our living room. I thought this was one of those things that you can put off for a while but it obviously wasn't. So now I'm paying the price and having to deal with all the repairs.

There wasn't a whole lot of damage, but our carpet was a mess. So we decided to get it replaced. After looking around online for a little bit I decided to go with Sears carpets and get them to replace it for us.

They got it done pretty quickly and it was nice to have some carpet that we actually like instead of that awful greenish teal that the last homeowners had installed. Instead, we picked out a really nice looking chocolate brown. It won't show dirt as badly, which is something of my concern because most of the time I'm the one that has vacuuming duties.