After the plumber, they sent us a rock and soil specialist who just looked through our property and recommended we have a second plumber rule out a slab leak because his methods would be expensive... So the HOA sent a second plumbing company to the property, and again confirmed we don't have a slab leak.
A lot of delays around the holidays go by and the carpet continued to get damp in our master bedroom.... So the HOA dispatched the rock and soil expert back out to our property to drill 2 cores.... and now we are the proud owners of concrete that has been drilled through.
They filled them back in when they were done, but they needed soil samples to make sure the soil under us was draining well (it is)... and the wanted to check to see if we had a moisture barrier under our floor or not... (which we do and don't have ... proving i've been right all along).
The picture on the right is in our kitchen. The chose to drill here because we didn't have flooring they would have to rip up to access a sample site. This area has a barrier, and has almost fully dried up as they did this hole 5 days ago.
On the Left is our toddler's bedroom where we found tons of standing water underneath the tile when we removed it in January of 2019, and contacted the HOA... This is the room where we regularly need to sweep efflorescence powder that comes up from the concrete in the corners of the room, (another thing the HOA is aware of). Notice how the patch is still brown.... its not fully dried and cured.
That's because they never put a moisture barrier in this room... and they didn't pull a core sample from our bedroom, where the carpet is that gets damp, because they would have had to pull back our carpet and we had other areas they could test.
The rock and soil specialists are running tests on the core samples they pulled, but their diagnosis is that our floor was not properly sealed, which explains the dampness we have experienced.
- It probably also explains our dogs allergies....
- my allergies (my entire life I've never needed an inhaler until we move here)...
- my husbands allergies... which got worse when we moved here, including hives and facial swelling...
So now we wait and the geo-rock specialist is going to contact some contractors to see if there is an after market product they can apply to the concrete to seal it... if not, I don't know what the next steps are.
But I have a feeling i'll be contacting my homeowners insurance...
What ever happened? Also how are you doing with the covid19 stuff? Hope you are well.
ReplyDeleteWe are still waiting for a final solution --- Our whole floors were ripped up and our concrete was sealed at HOA expense, so we have had to pay for new tile to be put in the whole place. We are now waiting to see if the HOA will reimburse us for the tile costs as our Homeoweners policy denied our claim. We should find out this month, so I can do the final update post... only you know, 8 months later.
DeleteAs for Covid, we are still employed, hanging in there and so far just healthy. A lot of recap posts will be coming.