Out of all 6 bedrooms, only the game room and guest room escaped without any damages. The masterbedroom/closet/bath on first floor had water stain came from the theater room on second floor. The master closet was probably the worst with water leaking through ceiling and air vent. Kenneth's room and bug room have partial damages on the ceiling and wall while the office room has the entire ceiling leaking water which was pretty bad. Even living room, family room, and garage on first floor see damages on either rain water leaking through the air duct, ceiling or wall.
The worst damage has to be the theater room. One reason was that directly above the theater room is where most of the shingles lost occurred. Right after the storm, i could see paint on the wall swelled up from collecting the rain water. The paint in the theater room was a good double premier coating so it was strong enough to hold the rain water without leaking, it looks kind of odd but the swelling part continue to move downward reaching the floor. To my horror, the water from behind the paint seeped through the second floor and reached the ceiling on the first floor. We have to break the paint swelling up with water to prevent it from reaching the first floor. The swelling was everywhere right behind the 110" fixed frame and water starting to pour right out the hole once we break the paint. The ceiling starting to leak water at this stage. Paint from ceiling wasn't the premier type and it fell after coming into contact with water. i remember we were like chicken without head running around the house looking for any bucket to hold the leaking water. We have to remove the hueg frame, all the audio electrical appliances to avoid more equipment damage from the water leaking through ceiling, and also the wooden cabinet holding the DVD/VCR, amplifier, woofer, surrounding sound systems, speakers, cable receiptor, etc. It was pretty hectic we were all very tire afterwards.
The theater room was "abandon" for few months awaiting the assessment from the insurance agent. We all missed watching movie there and plan to get it fixed as soon as the claim is settled. It took a long time before we can start to fix the theater room. My wife and I decided to have the theater room re-paint to dark blue this time (It was red in color previously). Daniel who is the contractor took a good week before we were finally able to use the theater room again. It was actually completed only few weeks ago from today.
Summer is once again around the corner. Hurricane season usually starts July and ends around november. But for us, the storm usually stirke around late August or early September. With the new roof, i hope repairing the house is not going happen again but Ike was only a Cat 3 storm. Who knows how long can the shingle last and when will we see a new paint on the theater room again. i hope never!!
Following pics mainly on the theater from before and after repairing. damages from the storm.
The first wo pics are how our theater room and part of the familiy room next to theater room look before the storm.
The next three pics are the damages right after the storm.
The next three pics are repairing pics. As you can see it was very dusty!
The last three are how it looks when completed. We also has the columns in the house painted. one of the colums is near the chimney.
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