Are you kidding me?!

Imagine my shock and surprise when I walked around in our newly finished basement and felt like I was walking on a soaking wet sponge. Apparently during the winter, the pipe connected to our back hose cracked. We used that back hose for the first time Thursday evening, and I discovered the water in the basement Friday morning.

We got the pipe fixed without having to break through the walls, but after removing the destroyed baseboards and some of the dry wall, Michael noticed that the insulation was soaking wet and we had to get the part behind the dry wall dried or else we may have some serious problems.

We had a propane tank blasting heat almost all night long last night to help dry out the carpet and wall, but realized that it was not drying behind the wall. Fortunately, today we were able to rent "the octopus" and we hope that that will get things dried. As you can see from the picture, there are arms going into the wall blowing air. Some of the modern day inventions are genius, and I hope that it does the job and we don't have any other issues with this disaster.