KNic19
Baby's First Christmas
Member since 7/09 3541 total posts
Name:
Kim
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NPR- home owner freak out - sorry, long
Last night I noticed that the rug by our back door (which is in our kitchen) was wet. We have pergo flooring in the kitchen, and we are on a slab (aka - no basement). We have slowly been noticing bubbling in the flooring that has been growing. When we bought the house 3 years ago, there was one tiny spot. Now there are these little bubbles throughout like half the kitchen, and they are getting larger. Well we noticed that the water on the rug was coming up through a seam in the flooring. Where the original spot on the floor was, there is the slightest crack in the pergo (again, been there since day 1) and a double bubble. Well when DH steps on the bubble, water comes up through it! Now that I see what is happening, I'm sure this is the way that crack formed in the first place.
We called a friend of ours who lives in the area and is quite the handy man to see if he had any ideas about it. He said that we should check the gutters first to see if they are clogged, because then the water isn't draining away from the house correctly and coming through from any cracks in the slab. Well I know for a fact that the gutter up at the roof line, two stories above the kitchen door, is clogged, because I can see sticks in it. However, I have been asking DH to take care of it for like 2 years, and he just can't make it up that high to clean them. Finallly we are going to get someone to clean the gutters, but our friend said it could take a few months for all the water to work its way out and our kitchen floor to be back to normal.
It is killing me because a) I don't want to wait until the kid is born to find out if we have a big problem or not...especially since this is water!!! I don't want to have to rip apart the flooring with a new born in the house. b) I feel like a home-owner failure because if this is the exact problem, it is something that we could have totally prevented. c) I'm frustrated at DH and myself because we are a bit lazy and we justify it by saying that we work a lot, but really the house could be in such amazing condition if we just did a little bit each day, instead of just letting things build up. Like checking out what was going on when we first started noticing the bubbles. Or keeping the yard and gutters clean.
As it is, I just started freaking out as to how we will actually afford a kid, and now I have no clue how long/how $$ this fix is going to be.
Sorry I'm just having a total freak out over here. Thank you for letting me vent!! 
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