Flood Damage Advice

[Carl Meyer]

Avery,  How did you measure the humidity?  My gauge doesn't go to 200%.

I once stood up at a prayer meeting and said  " I've shed barrels and
barrels of tears over my bad habit of telling tall stories"

Sorry about the flood damage.

Carl Meyer


----- Original Message -----
From: "Avery Todd" <avery@ev1.net>
To: <pianotech@ptg.org>
Sent: Tuesday, June 12, 2001 1:11 PM
Subject: Flood Damage Advice


> List,
>
> For those of you who read my original post, the university
> music dept. is OK. Thankfully. I had to move 2 D's out of a
> small recital hall because it did get water in it. Not standing
> water, but the humidity was about 200%. :-)
>
> Anyway, I'd just like a little confirmation of something else.
>
> I was called out to look at a grand that had had some flood
> damage. My instinct is to tell them to "salvage" it. The water
> line on the case was about 33-1/2" from the floor. That
> means that the entire keyboard and action was in water. And
> it was very obvious. As far as I can determine, the soundboard
> wasn't in the water, but according to my measurements, the
> water couldn't have been much more than 1/8" below it. Which
> is also about the same measurement below the pin block.
>
> There are already veneer/case joints coming apart/showing
> symptoms on the legs and pedal lyre. The piano is a Kawai
> KG-1, app. 5' type, bought about 9 yrs. ago.
>
> The keyboard is swollen into one solid mass, the hammers
> are up so high that the action cannot be removed, etc. I
> opened it up as much as possible, told them to put a box
> fan in front of it, and "we'll see what happens".
>
> Am I wrong in recommending that they write it off and get
> a new one? They do have flood insurance and my understanding
> is that that means replacement cost, not depreciated cost.
>
> Any comments/advice would be welcome. Thanks.
>
> Avery