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If you got water in your house now how do you deal with it. Your walls are a bit bare, maybe even skeletal. If you are lucky the Flintrock and bricks are still there but the insulation, sheetrock, wallpaper and molding are gone. You can't find a contractor, your roof is covered in blue. Your family is coming for Thanksgiving in just two weeks! They want to see the destruction.

Put first things first. Is the mold really gone?
Mushrooms behind the baseboard say that its not.
Wash, rinse, repeat. Bleach. Fungicide. Dry.
 Did you remember the ducts?
Replace electrical outlets if they got wet.
BoraCare is always an option.
Paint the 2 by 4's with Kilz.

Measure twice and buy.
Borrow a truck or wait til it comes.
Insulate and seal.
Cut, nail, float, tape, float again, sand, seal.
Paint, paper and enjoy.
You are good 'til next year.



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