H&D Home Care & Cleaning Services

11/08/2026

As water is supposed to flow out of a home it was flowing in. By the end of the day with the help of amazing people we had it flowing back outside. Thank you everyone for all your hard work today. Me with an injury from a fall 3 weeks ago am paying the painful price. Everyone pulled together and made sure my part was limited to home owner connections , home depot runs, making phone calls and limited trips up and down the basement stairs. Needless to say. I will be driving the car tomorrow as I won't be getting up into the truck. Tomorrow finish the cleanup and have guest ready. Its crazy to think we cleaned the house Friday and in less than 24 hours of heavy rain the basement flooded.

11/08/2026

Today's endeavor. One of my air b&b owners text me and says guest are coming tomorrow through the 12th. I reply the house is all clean we did it yesterday but I am going to go check the basement as it flooded about a month ago when we had heavy rain. He replied "yes please." As property manager and maintenance it is my responsibility to check all homes we manage. My son and his wife were in town i immediately called them with 5 minutes they called and sent video. I immediately grabbed the submerge pump and headed to Ellsworth. My son David Ellis Jr. His wife Cheyenne Ellis and i busted our bottoms hooking up pumps pushing water to drains. We noticed it was coming back in through one of the drains. To Home Depot we go. Another submerge pump extra hose a dehumidifier and a phone call to a drain specialist/ Septic Service and total man hours as of this evening 12.5. Back at it again tomorrow. As of when we left water was draining thanks to the 2 men from Action Septic Services. They used there equipment to locate where the basement drain line exited yhe home. They dug in the pouring rain to get all the soil and grass out of the end of the line in the ditch. Again it takes a great village and team work. Back at the clean up tomorrow before guest arrival.

11/05/2026