Water damage on cabinets

Mr. Hot Dog

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Hey everyone. I've had my first flood experience -- my entire house got flooded during Hurricane Sandy, so my games spent some time sitting in a foot and a half of saltwater. Obviously, I know that water is bad news for cabs. I elevated them off the wet carpet as soon as I got back into my house. Does anyone have any tips for mitigating damage on my cabs? Two of them look a little swollen, but the third doesn't look too bad. Any advice for keeping mildew/mold/etc under control? Any other pitfalls or anything else I might want to watch out for?

(I would normally search for the info myself, but this is the first time I've had electricity since 10/29 -- I have a ton of other stuff to do, but I was hoping maybe someone could steer me in the right direction until I get all my more important stuff under control with insurance, contractors, etc. Thanks!)
 
I have been there man.

The best piece of advice i can givwe you is Get everything as open as possible on them, and use fans on then for WEEKS. Yes weeks. Some of mine looked dry after a day but if you scratched the mdf it was still damp inside and thats what took forever to dry.

Some salvaged furnace "squirrel cage" fans do a nice job of drying them out. I was glad i had a couple.

if you have a cab thats starting to get funky, You could put some bleach in a spray bottle and soak them down at some point let sit 20 mins or so, wipedown, then continue drying. SPraying inside is more important than the outside, buti might not hurt to do the bottom outside wood at least once.

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I will say im luckier then most though. Other then the games we didnt lose much, it was freshwater, and we had picked up renters insurance the year before so i ended up with an $8500 paycheck out of that deal so hey it sucked but it coul dhave been alot worse.
 
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one more thought if you have renters or homeowners and are going to claim these games... get some pics of these now....

My ins just considered these a total loss because they were wood. They told me to get prices on replacing the games. So.. in this case ebay "im high on crack" prices will work to your advantage. THey let me "dispose of" my old games. You can guess what happened from there heh.
 
Run a dehumidifier on full blast if you have one. If you don't have one, go buy one. Sorry to hear about all the mess and hardship. Hang in there...
 
Oh fyi the next two weekas or so after i got flooded i was fortunate enough to have no rain so my games sat in the driveway for teo weeks with fans on them. If you are drying inside yes good idea witrh the dehumidifier gorfchamp!
 
Ugh, those pics paint a really familiar scene. What a mess. Great, thanks for the tips -- I'll get to work on that and see what I could do to revive them. Luckily, I have flood insurance with content coverage. I was surprised when the adjuster told me that sometimes insurance companies will come take the items that you claim so that they can salvage parts. Kind of funny to imagine an insurance company trying to part out a game, never mind then trying to find someone to buy them.
 
in my case they didnt bother, and i think being you and 500,000 other people have claims, they will probably cut a check and run.
 
Hey everyone. I've had my first flood experience -- my entire house got flooded during Hurricane Sandy, so my games spent some time sitting in a foot and a half of saltwater. Obviously, I know that water is bad news for cabs. I elevated them off the wet carpet as soon as I got back into my house. Does anyone have any tips for mitigating damage on my cabs? Two of them look a little swollen, but the third doesn't look too bad. Any advice for keeping mildew/mold/etc under control? Any other pitfalls or anything else I might want to watch out for?

(I would normally search for the info myself, but this is the first time I've had electricity since 10/29 -- I have a ton of other stuff to do, but I was hoping maybe someone could steer me in the right direction until I get all my more important stuff under control with insurance, contractors, etc. Thanks!)

That sucks man. I'm in central NJ and got spared for the most part but a lot of my friends and family did not. This whole few weeks has been an insane experience, I've seen everything from whole houses floating away to houses blown up from generator misuse. Best of luck with your property at least you and your family are ok.
 
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