comicdonna Posted October 7, 2011 Share Posted October 7, 2011 I just threw up in my mouth A little You and me both. Monday at 6:00pm I opened the door of the basement to get something. Turned on the light and I see paperbacks floating. Nearly 4" of water covering the entire floor. My English Bulldog chewed the water hose in half in the dog lot. She then used the piece still attached to the water spicket as a tug of war; her against the house. She won. Broke the pvc pipe in the basement that is attached to the spicket. Not sure when it happened, I was down in the basement on Friday night so sometime between then and Monday evening. I have a racking system in the basement to keep the books off the floor. Well, when you buy as much as I do it overflows sometimes. It got some good books along with cheap books. Paperbacks, hardcovers, Golden Age, Silver age, Bronze to current. Note what the lid says on the wet box on the shelf: Supplies; bags, boards, new boxes etc.... I've been going back and forth with home owners insurance agents and adjusters. Susan Cicconi from Restoration Labs is even involved. Estimated retail loss is around 75k. Fun uh? What a mess, so sorry to hear about it. +1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
silverweb Posted October 7, 2011 Share Posted October 7, 2011 I cannot read the label on the wet box. Hope it does not say Amazing Fantasy 15 VF copies. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Comics-n-ERB Posted October 7, 2011 Share Posted October 7, 2011 Ha, no. It says Display Books. It was a box of Board Books for Comic shows. I had moved it to get to something and forgot to move it back out of possible water leaks. sigh......... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Comics-n-ERB Posted October 7, 2011 Share Posted October 7, 2011 Update as of Friday evening at 6:20pm. I am in limbo 4 days into this. Insurance company is trying to figure out what to do about my comic books. I was honest and told them that I do sell comics at shows. This apparently has thrown up a red flag. They are thinking that this puts it in a different category. They told me that if a Hobby produces money it is a business. Home owners has very limited coverage on a business. $2,500 Remember I said around $75,000 estimated damage?? I told them that not all of it was show stock, that quite a bit of it was/is my personal collection. In the meantime, they have not allowed ServPro to come and start cleaning the basement, try to salvage or limit ongoing damage. Any lawyers handy? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
sufunk Posted October 7, 2011 Share Posted October 7, 2011 OMG!!! That is all of our worst nightmares!!! So sorry! I've nevr had any kind of problem like that but i'm a little surprised you had that much damage to the books. If the books are bagged and boarded, i would have thought that 4 inches of water wouldnt have done that much damage. Doesnt the bags keep the water out as long as it isnt high enough to hit the opening on the back? I guess the bags aren't water proof and some still leaks in? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Comics-n-ERB Posted October 8, 2011 Share Posted October 8, 2011 OMG!!! That is all of our worst nightmares!!! So sorry! I've nevr had any kind of problem like that but i'm a little surprised you had that much damage to the books. If the books are bagged and boarded, i would have thought that 4 inches of water wouldnt have done that much damage. Doesnt the bags keep the water out as long as it isnt high enough to hit the opening on the back? I guess the bags aren't water proof and some still leaks in? You would kind of think that if bagged/boarded they would be okay from water on the floor. I can assure you that is not the case! Here is a post from a couple of pages ago for ya: A couple of interesting notes so far. Had two full boxes of Hardcover DC Archives and Marvel (whatever, can't remember what they are called). The majority of the books were in regular poly bags. No books wet at all. 3 were still in their original shrink wrap, with two of those in poly bags. All 3 shrink wrapped books were wet. Golden age books, lots of comics in Mylar 2. All were wet/soaked. Quiet a few of the lesser value books were in poly. Probably 85% were dry. Interesting don't you think? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
RedFury Posted October 8, 2011 Share Posted October 8, 2011 Ugh! Just seeing this now. So sorry to hear about this, David. I hope the insurance company does the right thing, here. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mr.Illmannered Posted October 8, 2011 Share Posted October 8, 2011 Oh my lord man, my prayers sent to you, that's just awful. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
asteroid-comix Posted October 8, 2011 Share Posted October 8, 2011 That sucks. Like the others, I hope the insurance company comes through for you Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Shaven Kev-migration Posted October 9, 2011 Share Posted October 9, 2011 aaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaahhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhh that about sums up my reaction. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
paperheart Posted October 10, 2011 Share Posted October 10, 2011 Spinners w/ kids comics and TPB's that need to get read Cabinets I had made for storing the HG raw w/ my DKR page and my OA Hall of Fame Inner Sanctum of Slabs Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
oakman29 Posted October 10, 2011 Share Posted October 10, 2011 Spinners w/ kids comics and TPB's that need to get read Cabinets I had made for storing the HG raw w/ my DKR page and my OA Hall of Fame Inner Sanctum of Slabs Love it! Comics are OK laying flat like that? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
MagnetoWasRight Posted October 10, 2011 Share Posted October 10, 2011 Man, I showed my wife your collection of slabs...now mine don't look so bad. Nice collection! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ringfinger Posted October 10, 2011 Share Posted October 10, 2011 Nice! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Marvelfangirl Posted October 10, 2011 Share Posted October 10, 2011 Spinners w/ kids comics and TPB's that need to get read Cabinets I had made for storing the HG raw w/ my DKR page and my OA Hall of Fame Inner Sanctum of Slabs Love it! Comics are OK laying flat like that? That's awesome Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Radj4ck Posted October 11, 2011 Share Posted October 11, 2011 Awesome Collection! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
gcwatson94 Posted October 11, 2011 Share Posted October 11, 2011 That is one hell of a collection! I can't even imagine how much it must have cost to slab all those books. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ringfinger Posted October 11, 2011 Share Posted October 11, 2011 More than I have!! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mr.Illmannered Posted October 11, 2011 Share Posted October 11, 2011 Great collection there! In my Emporer's voice "Good, good..." Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Shaven Kev-migration Posted October 11, 2011 Share Posted October 11, 2011 now we know who the real ballers are around here... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
