Getting that carpet out sounds like a good idea. My plans were to wait until the elec gets restored (by tonight, I heard), then run a wet/dry vac (which I'll have to wait until Friday before I have the money). There is a ton of stuff sitting on this carpet, including my Axiom shipping boxes.
I won't be paying for anything for a long long while, because in July, about half of everything I owned broke and I'm still working on getting things replaced and my bills caught up on. My savings was already totally wiped out.
So, unless the insurance company pays up front, nothing is going to get fixed. I had to have my fireplace relined about 4 years ago and the money went straight from the insurance company to the fireplace company.
