Apples55 posted:gandydancer1950 posted:mike g. posted:gandydancer1950 posted:Basement flooded two weeks ago, (first time ever), no damage to trains or layout but quite the mess. Spent last two weeks cleaning, sanitizing, and drying out. Installing new floor now and will have to lug everything back downstairs.....can't wait to get back to normal
Nice! Sure is great to see things are going to be getting back to normal!~ Nice looking flooring also. Just wondering what you had before? Carpet, of floating floor? No Pun intended.
carpet and padding. Never do that again!
My sincere sympathies. Been there... done that... got the high water marks on the walls to prove it. Luckily, I didn't have a layout when it happened, and few trains were stored in the basement at the time. The only real train damage was the box to my Hellgate Bridge (the recent version), though there was no damage to the bridge itself, and my original early 1960's 637 where the wheels were under water and are now rusted - all in all, not too bad, but I would never wish ANY flooded basement on anyone.
Amen to that. Never had water in the basement in all 25 years that I've lived here. Just goes to show ....never know when disaster will strike! But I feel very fortunate.....could have been a lot worse.
