I lived in a house that got flooded in Llandudno, there were small fortunes made by opportunists.
As soon as the loss adjusters had been, there were vans and trucks all over the place offering to remove all the domestic appliances that had been condemned.
People were glad to get rid of them. Many of these appliances were washed down, left to dry, and if working were sold on to unsuspecting people living miles away.
As said above, some of the tradesmen were a joke, everyone wanted their house fixing A.S.P.
Anyone that could pick up a trowel was suddenly a plasterer, the skim that they put on out walls was so thin that the plaster board nail heads were visible, and the plaster fell off them after a couple of weeks.
Getting flooded is a nightmare, but dealing with all the different tradesmen was the real horror story. The buggers took on so much work that they were only spending an hour here and there on each job.