Kiwibird
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- Jul 12, 2012
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- 1 BFA- Kiwi. Hatch circa 98', forever home with us Dec. 08'
...annnnddd the universe gave yet another big middle finger to us yesterday This time, our dishwasher was apparently leaking unbeknownst to us (we don't use it really and never saw any puddles in the kitchen) and caused damage to both the condo below us and our kitchen. They (the property management company who owns and rents out the unit below us) ripped a roughly 2x5' hole in the wall between the living room and kitchen out yesterday to locate the leak and this wall is right next to Kiwi's cage and when they found the source, also ripped out the dishwasher as well because there was water under it (yes, with my permission as we had to find/stop/clean up the leak ASAP).
Now, we did move Kiwi over to the opposite side of the living room (as far away from the wall as possible) and set up an air purifier right next to him. We also have fans blowing the wet area, but are waiting to speak to our insurance company this morning as it was past their regular office hours by the time I had a chance to call yesterday before proceeding further. To my untrained eye, I don't see any obvious mold growing in the now open wall area as the leak seems to have been fairly recent. I've cleaned up the drywall removed yesterday and see no further immediate hazard to Kiwi being in the living room away from the wall? However, beyond repairing and repainting the saturated drywall, we also need a new floor in our kitchen. The idiots who renovated this place before we bought it put laminate flooring in the kitchen, which is of course now severely warped under the dishwasher and slightly warped elsewhere near the dishwasher where the water seeped under. We may also need to replace the carpet in the living room. If that turns out to be the case, we'll have some kind of economical hard floors (maybe tile?) installed and then if the insurance allows, pay out of pocket to replace the undamaged flooring in our entryway and bathroom (also both laminate) and then have all hard floors except the bedroom and loft. But we may also have insurance say they'll only pay for more carpet and well... that's going to smell terribly. I'm going to struggle with that too as I'm extremely sensitive to chemicals/chemical odors. My fingers are still crossed though that only the kitchen floor has to go and can just be replaced with some nice non-stinky ceramic tile.
Naturally, some of this work is going to pose a risk for Kiwi. We have no good options to move him elsewhere either. We really are pitiful people who haven't really made friends up here and have no family, so literally no one who could take him for a few days and without an all clear yet from his AV (he's still on meds for the kidney infection, though it appears to be under control) he probably can't be boarded right now either. My husband works from home, so I can't put him in the office where the door can be closed during the day and our loft (which we use as our bedroom) is open walls and sits directly above the living room/where the repairs would be. I could put him outside in the mornings/early afternoon, but once the sun starts hitting this side of the building around 2-3pm, it gets HOT, much too hot for a little bird out there. I suppose we could spend a night or 2 in a hotel on our dime, we can't afford weeks in a hotel for odors to dissipate, and I'm sure insurance won't pay for hotels because our bird is sensitive. Please help me figure out what to do here to keep our little buddy safe in this situation.
Now, we did move Kiwi over to the opposite side of the living room (as far away from the wall as possible) and set up an air purifier right next to him. We also have fans blowing the wet area, but are waiting to speak to our insurance company this morning as it was past their regular office hours by the time I had a chance to call yesterday before proceeding further. To my untrained eye, I don't see any obvious mold growing in the now open wall area as the leak seems to have been fairly recent. I've cleaned up the drywall removed yesterday and see no further immediate hazard to Kiwi being in the living room away from the wall? However, beyond repairing and repainting the saturated drywall, we also need a new floor in our kitchen. The idiots who renovated this place before we bought it put laminate flooring in the kitchen, which is of course now severely warped under the dishwasher and slightly warped elsewhere near the dishwasher where the water seeped under. We may also need to replace the carpet in the living room. If that turns out to be the case, we'll have some kind of economical hard floors (maybe tile?) installed and then if the insurance allows, pay out of pocket to replace the undamaged flooring in our entryway and bathroom (also both laminate) and then have all hard floors except the bedroom and loft. But we may also have insurance say they'll only pay for more carpet and well... that's going to smell terribly. I'm going to struggle with that too as I'm extremely sensitive to chemicals/chemical odors. My fingers are still crossed though that only the kitchen floor has to go and can just be replaced with some nice non-stinky ceramic tile.
Naturally, some of this work is going to pose a risk for Kiwi. We have no good options to move him elsewhere either. We really are pitiful people who haven't really made friends up here and have no family, so literally no one who could take him for a few days and without an all clear yet from his AV (he's still on meds for the kidney infection, though it appears to be under control) he probably can't be boarded right now either. My husband works from home, so I can't put him in the office where the door can be closed during the day and our loft (which we use as our bedroom) is open walls and sits directly above the living room/where the repairs would be. I could put him outside in the mornings/early afternoon, but once the sun starts hitting this side of the building around 2-3pm, it gets HOT, much too hot for a little bird out there. I suppose we could spend a night or 2 in a hotel on our dime, we can't afford weeks in a hotel for odors to dissipate, and I'm sure insurance won't pay for hotels because our bird is sensitive. Please help me figure out what to do here to keep our little buddy safe in this situation.
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