We have good insurance via the Teachers union. They are just dragging their feet as insurance companies do. They were very fast to act to start fixing the house though, and that is more important than contents.
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Finally to update you all.

House is finished and we are moving back in tomorrow!!!

Took them over 3 months to dry the walls and foundations out fully. And then waiting a bit for the builders to get their act together, but once they got into the house it only took them 1 week and 3 days to restore the house, and they have done a pretty nice job. We are not too convinced by some of the decorating, but that is superfiscial and I can always touch up any little bits. The actual building restoration was done nicely, which is the main thing.

The insurance/builders are also paying for professional cleaners to clean the whole house now it is complete, and they should be there now doing that. Will be popping over later to see.

We also managed to get some better items in the house. Much nicer floor tiles in the Kitchen than were originally put in when the house was new. Italian solid porcelain. Plus much nicer kitchen worktops. We decided to go for the same wood flooring throughout as we liked what we had, and they have done a good job. And new Laura Ashley wallpaper in the living room.

When I get chance I will go through all the pictures I took and post them up, showing the flood, damage, drying, restoration etc...

We also got new seating from the insurance. My wife managed to get a really expensive leather sofa for a really good price, meaning we saved a lot on the insurance payout to use for other stuff.

We also eventually got a new shed out of the insurance too, so got a much better one than we had before. Larger 6x8 with 22mm shiplap tongue and groove cladding. I'm currently in the process of insulating and internally cladding it, to make it more like a proper garden room. A friend is installing electric into the shed with a light and sone plug sockets, then we are going to be putting the tumble dryer and freezer out there to give more room in the kitchen. I'm also going to be making a workbench out of old kitchen worktop, then I will have somewhere to keep things like soldering station setup all the time.
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Good that everything went well in the end.
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That's great news!! I'm happy to hear this.
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Successfully moved house yesterday. Very hectic day and now we have a house full of boxed up belongings. That's my weekend sorted! lol

One odd thing. Phone line was confirmed moved over to the other house yesterday, and broadband company text me to confirm broadband ceased at rented house. However, I'm currently at the rented house collecting last bits and packing my computer stuff up (wasn't having the removal men touching that!) and the phoneline is still working here and I'm using the internet to post this. Very odd. Seems we have both lines active and broadband still here. hmm..
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Broadband might be taking another week before it's activated so I won't be around much till then.

The landline also seems to have some interference so I can at least use the time to get the line checked. I'm wondering if there is water in the phone line from the flood.

I have managed to borrow a mobile broadband dongle from a friend at work for some access, and I can tether my phone to my tablet, as I'm doing now, so I've got some connectivity.

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Good to hear you are finally back home Dave. Best wishes to you all for you new home.
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Thanks Charlie. Definitely feels like a new house as nearly everything on the ground floor is new.

We do however have a new concern. The next door neighbour's house has only starting having work done on it this week! They got the NHBC involved as they have had damp issues in their house since it was built, whereas we haven't. That delayed the whole drying and restoration start, and the builders they have in there now are working directly for the NHBC, not their house insurance, and have decided to take the whole ground floor out right back down to the soil and re-construct it again. We spoke to them and they believe the house's floor wasn't constructed correctly. This has therefore raised a concern for us that nothing was done to our house to change its floor construction, or to add prevention against any future flooding. Our house was just dried out and renovated back to its original condition, so we have contacted the NHBC again this week and they are sending an inspector out to investigate.

My wife is understandably concerned they might want to do something serious and we will have to move out again. Hopefully not and anything they do to protect the house from future flooding can be achieved without resorting to major work. The most important thing I want to try and make them do is replace our air bricks with a special flood prevention air brick.
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Yeah Dave, no worries & a pleasure. Deb's sends all her best to you all, meant sincerely from both of us. One hell of an upheaval..
- Bugger of this is, the house if a Semi-detached should surely have been done as a complete unit? - Meh @ this for crap-age.... Gah!
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Our house is staggered, only joined by part of the wall to the neightbours, with ours being a few meters further forward, so it was treated as separate. The builders did say the 2 were completely separate at the time. The concern is more how they were constructed because if they are needing to do so much work to the floor in the other house why wasn't the same needed for our house. We will know more once the NHBC inspector has visited.
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