A flooded family home, ready to sell in three weeks
A leaking toilet supply valve flooded this one-story Katy house while it sat empty. We cut out the wet drywall, saved and repaired the kitchen cabinets instead of replacing them, set new quartz counters and a tile backsplash, replaced every carpet, rebuilt the back deck on its existing frame, added new fans and lighting, and pressure washed the house and roof. About three weeks, front to back.
Cyndi called us about her mother’s house in Katy. It had been sitting empty, and the family needed it ready to sell. On the first walkthrough we found the reason the house was in the shape it was in: the quarter-turn supply valve at the primary bathroom toilet had been leaking, and with nobody living there to notice, the water had spread across the whole one-story slab. Door casings had wicked it up, the carpet was ruined, and the bottoms of the kitchen cabinets had soaked in it.
The first job was getting the house dry and honest. We cut the wet drywall out along the bottom of the walls, pulled every carpet, and opened up the kitchen. The cabinets were solid oak boxes with damaged bottoms, so instead of replacing them we repaired the water-damaged sections and had them painted, which saved the family real money. The old tile counters and backsplash came off and went to the pile.
With the walls dried and closed back up, the kitchen went back together better than it started: new quartz counters, a new sink and faucet in the island, and a tile backsplash the length of the run. The ceramic tile floors throughout the house had come through fine, so we left them alone and replaced all of the carpet in the bedrooms instead. As we went we swapped in new ceiling fans throughout and changed the lighting where it made sense.
Out back, the deck was rotten on top but the frame underneath was worth keeping. We stripped it to the joists, added supports beneath, and laid a new deck on the existing footprint rather than digging new footers, again to keep the cost where it needed to be. We finished by pressure washing the whole property, including a roof that had gone black. Three weeks after demo started, the house was clean, dry and ready for the market. Cyndi liked how it went well enough to call us back for her own home, where we built the coffee bar you can see elsewhere on this site.
Scope of work
- Leak found at the primary bath toilet supply valve
- Wet drywall cut out and walls dried, then closed and finished
- Kitchen cabinets salvaged, water-damaged bottoms repaired, cabinets painted
- New quartz counters, island sink and faucet, tile backsplash
- All carpet replaced in the bedrooms; existing ceramic tile floors kept
- Back deck rebuilt on its existing frame with added supports, no new footers
- New ceiling fans throughout and lighting changes
- Whole property and roof pressure washed
Service: Water Damage Repairs
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