The Hailstorm Saga continues

Well we are still living under tarps and hating it all.

Our insurance claim has been approved but we are still waiting for the contract from the building company who will be handling the repairs.

In the meantime we have had a few dozen storms with heavy rain and strong winds. What does that mean? Well we are getting more leaks - now we have a leak in the eaves on the front verandah, the two lights out there have now filled with water and there is water coming in at the cornice in my bedroom plus, at one point, in the ceiling right above the bed.

Yesterday I spent the day re-aaranging the bedroom, emptying the waterbed and moving it because we have pump-in insulation in the ceiling and now that it is obviously getting wet it will be getting heavier and heavier. I don't want to wake up with the ceiling covering my bed instead of my blankets!

Rang the insurance assessor to tell her about the new damage and she told me to just handwrite it onto the contract and the builder can send her a statement of amendments. Told her that would be easy if I had actually got a contract!! Rang the building company and they told me the contract had been posted but they would send another.

Hopefully the errant contract will turn up early next week and things can get started although I imagine it will be a long process because of the thousands of homes in the area still living under tarps.

We are luckier than hundreds of homes in the area - there are hundreds who have walls and ceilings already falling because of the damage and with each storm it just gets worse.