TV reports showed flood victims ditching their fridge's and washing machi=
nes.
Will these items get destroyed in a flood?
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> =A0I would have thought a hose down and drying it off for a few days woul=
d have recovered them back to a useful state.
> (Unless , of course if the machine was running at the time & the water ca=
me in and zapped any electronics?)
> They would have to do the same for house electricity meters too (dry them=
out) and remove all the power points & dry them out as well.
> Looks like a lot of work for sparkies.
Saw a chest freezer today that had been in a flooded area, the plastic inner cover of the lid had broken away at 2 sides, and in where the insulation was, was caked with mud which stank like s*it. I would have my doubts as to whether you could ever get this muck and smell out of the walls of the fridge if this watery mud / s*it got into the insulation.
The heat from the compressor would probably do a great job of raising this stink again well into the future. Ever tried to get the stink of dead mouse off a compressor if it died on it ?
Most furniture was a write off - anything of MDF or similar would have been shovelled out.
IN one place, where the entire lower floor had filled with water, the
2 roller doors had been split down the middle, like they were tinfoil, presumably from the water pressure, probably rose very quickly.
When we got home the s*it smell was even through our clothes, just from the air. Didn't touch anything