It’s 38 days since our house was damaged in a flash flood, and today’s the first of our ‘BER’ assessment. BER stands for Beyond Economical Repair. It basically means that anything on the list is something that the insurance company intend to ‘write off’: to declare irreparable or not-worth repairing and scrap, replacing it with an equivalent new one.
So today, while I work, I’m watching a trio of men carry all of the soft furnishings, white goods, and rugs, plus any plywood/MDF-based furniture that got soaked into a pair of vans on the driveway, making notes where possible of the makes and models of things as they go.
My home is rapidly becoming more cavernous and echoey.
Is this a good or bad thing?
For now, it’s just a “thing”. It’s good to have progress (finally) being made after five and a half weeks of not-much; but it’s also sad to see my house as bare as when I moved in, but also horribly damaged. It looks like… an injured thing.
At least nobody was hurt in the flood. Your shit can be replaced people can’t. At least they are getting stuff done.