As luck would have it...

Some good news on the kitchen floor front: the voice of reason (my mother-in-law) suggested that little accidents like that are sort of what having homeowner's insurance is for.

The insurance chickie came out yesterday, measured the kitchen, analyzed the situation, and I guess determined that there's nothing we could have done to intentionally put the floor in that condition (for the sake of having it replaced). So, she's going to cut us a check. That's a helluva lot better of a situation than covering up the problem with the snappy matching utility rugs I purchased at Target...

So, this was sort of a blessing in desguise. We were going to have to replace the subfloor when we tiled the floor anyway, and we didn't want to leap headfirst into that expense just yet. Now that our crooked floor creates a trip hazard and that there's the potential of mold and gunk growing as a result of the little flood, insurance kicks in.

I think this situation calls for a "W00t!"

I'm a little stoked. Like I said before, we'd planned on working on the kitchen last because it needs the most cash thrown at it (fridge needs to be replaced, countertops replaced, ugly stained glass cabinet thingie replaced, floors, etc.). It helps move our timeline up a bit, and bonus points are applied for the fact that the floor needed to be replaced before all that other crap got done.

Posted by Tiffany at March 7, 2007 09:32 AM | TrackBack