Post #223534 by Bargoyle on Tue, Mar 28, 2006 9:31 AM

Thanks for the well wishes and advice everyone!

We're still living in a hotel a few miles from our house, but we're hopefull that we'll be able to move back in by this weekend (we'll see)

The cleaning company is indeed cleaning EVERYTHING. All walls & ceiling in every room...took everything out of every cupboard and washed it...and the upstairs is starting to come back together slowly but surely.

Also, the insurance company had a dry cleaner come and they took everything that was made of cloth out of the house. Curtains, all our clothes (I mean everything...stuff in closets, drawers, in storage boxes, etc).

There's alot of stuff that is gonna have to be trashed, unfortunately.

The game room got it pretty bad...the pinball machines and MAME cabinet are pretty screwed.

As far as the bar...only one fatallity so far! One of the tiki figures from the Enchanted Tiki Room Big Fig got smashed. (Anyone know if you can buy just a replacement tiki for that set?)

It looks like the majority of the mugs can be saved. The prints are questionable....and unfortunately, it looks like all the bamboo, weave, grass, etc all has to go.

I'm hoping that I can get a General COntractor in there soon, before we rip out the bar, and maybe he can rebuild it? The GC already has his work cut out for him, and woking with bamboo might be a nice change of pace.

Now, if the insurance company would only pay to fly bamboo ben out for a few weeks!!

Anyway, Thanks again for the thoughts everyone. I'll try to get some pics off the camera in the next day or two.

ps. Johnman, thanks for the compliments...I dont know if it was the "coolest" bar in CT, but it was mine.