Super disaster - water pipe burst, screed damp

Hi,
just a quick feedback:
The drying company was already here on Tuesday and took a look. Tomorrow morning they will come and do test drillings and also set up vacuum dryers right away. This could be fun. They have to partially dismantle the kitchen for it and they will probably have to drill through the parquet upstairs. So that definitely applies. But it's definitely not only the bathroom upstairs that's affected, but also the adjacent study and the hallway.
However, we deliberately installed the parquet continuously and only later installed the door frames. In other words, for the replacement of individual boards, basically everything will have to be removed later, because the previous condition has to be restored.

But since my wife is heavily pregnant and it can start at any moment, we won’t have the parquet removed beforehand. Then we would have to walk around upstairs on bare screed and without doors for the next few weeks. We will postpone that part of the fun a bit...

Best regards,

Andreas

I'm sending you a virtual hug and a few pats on the shoulder. You can really be pitied.

It's really not nice there, not at all. For that, my sympathy.

But for your family and the new family member, all the best wishes now and take it easy.

The construction will sort itself out, even if it gets on your nerves. A new life needs joy and a warm nest, which you can certainly provide with or without parquet flooring, and then the most important thing is already there.

Many greetings, Gabriele

water damage caused by freshwater is insured in the house anyway. so call the building insurance and report the damage. paperwork has to be filled out anyway and there you can specify the "causer or other warranty claims." the insurance pays for it and sues to recover the money. for yourself, the advantage is that you don't have to sue yourself, that you don't have to wait forever for the drying and always be afraid that you'll end up bearing the costs. that's exactly what such insurance is for. if the insurance comes back with "sue for your money yourself," you have to say that the legal claims against the manufacturer are rather slim and that further costs will arise for you due to the delay in drying. how about hotels and so on? is your house still habitable with numerous dehumidifiers? i find them pretty loud. we had a small mishap with a 50-liter aquarium.

Thanks for the encouragements, we can really use them right now. Actually, the plan was that I would be working only a little and we would be relaxing on the couch, waiting for the arrival of our little son...
Apparently not, currently work is a total mess like I have never experienced before and then this sh*** happened...
The first vacuum pumps are in place, on Monday they have to come again because they ran out of time today. The boss apparently didn’t realize that we have large and thick porcelain stoneware tiles, which resisted the drills for a very long time.

Then measurements will also be taken again in the bedroom, kitchen, and two basement rooms to determine if there is water in the floor there too.

@ Payday.
I won’t bother our insurance with this sh*** (although we reported it to them), nor will I pay any bills to anyone. This mess is entirely the general contractor’s responsibility. He has also realized that any discussion about whether he is liable to perform is completely pointless.
Whether and how he sorts it out with his subs/insurances or whoever only concerns me peripherally...
If they have to dismantle the kitchen, nmfp (=Not my fucking problem), likewise ripping out and reinstalling the tiles, the parquet, and the doors... On top of that comes an electricity bill, a "house is basically no longer habitable compensation," and a bill for my working time. I actually have other things to do at the office and my employer doesn’t pay me to play babysitter for craftsmen here at home.

Hotel and stuff is a tricky issue:
Legally enforcing that is probably not worth it given the extent of the damage, and my wife also firmly refuses to stay in a hotel with a newborn. But I also admit that I don’t really want to do that either. At night we also turn off the devices, but sleeping with that going on really doesn’t work.

Best regards,

Andreas

if the contractor pays everything directly, that's fine. but he could also refuse and you would have to sue for everything. if the devices only run at night, it just takes longer and could also be used as an argument by the contractor. however, I know the noise level and even during the day it’s horrible (pregnant woman / new child). the downside without insurance is that some services, like an expert, might be at your own expense. the contractor will definitely not voluntarily provide or pay for anything. legally he is not obliged to do so either, since he must legally deliver flawless work anyway ^^ with a car, this is basically a total loss and with less than 1000 km would have resulted in a new car. unfortunately, that doesn’t work with a house. what about your own private stuff like furniture and so on?!