Finished our last house today. Well, didn’t finish, but we came close. This was the first house my team had had that hadn’t been touched since the hurricane. Um, wow. Stuff had floated around everywhere, the ceiling had collapsed, and there was very little ventilation in the place. Fortunately, we had another team come join us, and they had a lot of men who were doing the competitive thing, so they were more than willing to deal with the couches and the appliances — but not so much with the living-room carpet.
The carpet was a thing to behold. The floodwaters had brought in mud and sludge, and then the ceiling collapsed on top of that, so there was a lot of drywall and sludge fused to the carpet. My work buddy Cindy and I wound up taking care of it ourselves by pulling up part of the rug, folding it over and kicking the back to loosen the crap, then cutting it into strips.
All the appliances had water in them, and there were two rats killed during the clean-out (we were lucky in that we had seen few critters).
I’m getting the two-minute warning for internet time, so more later.