Hillrunner Fire update

[hillrunnerfl]

Insurance is covering my workshop for $13,000, and the contents for $11,000, they allowed only $1000 for the airboat. That doesn't sound like much, but since the policy had no specific coverage for the boat, I thought it would have been a total loss. Turns out the contents were covered by my home owners policy.

I'll at least be able to put up a new building and pickup a welder and some tools, so me and my grandyoungins can build a new boat.

Anyone with a workshop needs to add the building to the policy and make sure the contents are covered by homeowners.

I'll post some pictures of the shop and toasted boat later.

 

[basketcase0302]

hillrunnerfl,

Sorry again for the loss but glad at least the insurance company covered some to rebuild with. Did the fire marshall/investigator determine what caused it?

We have rooftop sprinklers on the house, (never did get them hooked up through the dialer so I could "call home" and activate them). Fire extinguishers, (bout' 6 of them 5 pounders). Large acerage/record setting fires common here at the bottom of the world.

Still can't never be prepared enough for such a loss.

Basketcase/Jeff

 

[Anonymous]

Sprinkler systems don't have to be too high tech to work. I saw a home made set up once in a welding shop that was just several hose nozzles on a couple of pipes run across the ceiling of the building ..... with a shut-off valve on the outside.
The guy probably didn't have more than a hundred bucks in it.

BF

 

[marshmaster pat]

Basket - Saw a house in California with copper tubing and sprinklers on the roof. Had a swimming pool and a small gas powered pump by the pool. Costs were not that much other than the pump. Looked funny on a fancy house's roof. It was in one of those areas that burns with explosion fires every 12 years or so and he lost his home once before.

The fellow refused to leave until the last minute during the next fire, fired up the pump and sprayed his house with pool water as the fire swept through. There were about 17-20 homes there and his water covered house was the only one left standing.

So those sprinklers on the roof are not a bad idea in that flammable part of Florida.

Hill - glad you are getting something from insurance. Post some pictures as you build the new rig.

 

[Anonymous]

OMG, that's terrible! You had such a nice boat. Will be hard to replace that hull.

I don't think you recognized me the other day when you were at Alachua Tractor......