DS14 just flooded the house

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Just venting really. He put the plug in the sink and the taps on to rinse nosebleed out of a sweater and then LEFT THE ROOM. DH and I sitting downstairs thinking wow, the shower sounds loud - nope, it's water cascading through the kitchen ceiling. Tripped all the lights so can't see the damage but bloody hell.

Have lodged a claim online with our insurance - bit worried about the integrity of the bathroom floor.

Anyway, no need to respond, just venting! DS will be spending his strike day off making the kitchen and bathroom immaculate...

Hopefully your insurance can sort it, if not get him doing a paper round to cover the damage

Vent away and hurrah for two strike days 💪 the teachers. What a twit!

Hope your insurance company are decent.

Insurance will be fine, you will have an escape of water excess, usually between £259-£500 depending who you are insured with.

sure he has learned his lesson and if not soon will when he sees all the tradesmen come and go!!

kids can drive you crazy can they ☹️

Sort £250-£500

Shitty day for you but the family lore of the future: you'll no doubt be reminiscing about this in a decade or so.

Honestly he's such a dozy bugger. Husband was very upset, but I did remind him we have insurance and we'll use it. Fingers crossed nothing too badly damaged/damage easily fixed and replaced.

I did the same thing in a ground floor bathroom this week. Someone rang me while I left a bowl in bathroom basin, and taps on. A few minutes later, the water is inches deep and a right mess. A dehumidifier will help a lot to dry out the rooms, and you may be able to get one via an insurance claim.

I did this with the bath as a teenager, the house had been flooded a few months before and we had industrial dehumidifier units, I’d just sat my O/A maths exams and I was exhausted. Decided to have a bath, but thought for an hour of no noise whilst I was in the bath would be bliss. I’d turn off the annoying dehumidifier units. Well I sat on the couch and fell asleep…….. the insurance company just added it on to the long list of damage to be fixed….. we were camping upstairs at that point. My sister were mostly upset the TV which survived the flood did not survive the drowning in bath water.

Ex did this washing up. and it went into the flat downstairs. He was very cross

. Not as bad as the idiots who flushed something stupid down the toilet so that sewage gushed out of the flat below's toilet, and through the ceiling of the flat below that.

Definitely make sure the insurance pays for fans and dehumidifiers to dry the house out properly. You dont want mould setting in

You can claim for the electric they use too!