Oops, HOUSE FLOOD!! Audiophile vinyl collection got soaked. Where do we go from here?

Sorry to hear this!!!!! I had to leave my whole collection behind when moving to the "promised land" with a wife, kid, and just two suitcases, OLESCHOOL lost his priceless collection (and house) to fire... you r not alone!!! If you intend to keep and listen, maybe wash them all with VPI or NittyGritty and get new MoFi inserts, if posted for sale there will be a painful hit, I agree... ;-(   Maybe not too much, personally I look for Mint vinyl, not cover :-)

Dang i’m feeling your pain,I lost a couple thousands lps and like 5ooo cds 10 yrs ago.It’s a pain that will linger :( . my lps were in a different room and evaporated ,the cds were upstairs and got severly smoke damaged .I cleaned and cleaned annnddd cleaned the cds tossed probly 15 beer cases full .The lps i would pay attention to getting those covers dry or trashed well before the lp is returned.The mold is a b----- i would also buy all new sleeves for the lps .There are good deals on 100 lots on ebay etc.
good luck man
As for me and insurance they almost laughed outloud when i said i had that many and there 100k plus value.I got zip ,a lesson to all !! take pics and document that media.The gear was replaceable cj pv12 ,classic 60 , maggies,subs,linn lp12 etc etc still nothing in comparison to the media .

So I'm not alone, sorry to hear that.

You're right, I'll take a big hit in divesting.  I fortunately have maintained a vastly detailed collection spreadsheet along with partial pics dating back to the late-70s through early-80s when mostly collected, and invited our homeowners insurance company to take a look while drying still was in process, so will be coming away with at least some amount of insurance settlement.  Coupled with the several thou (who knows?) I expect to get when listing here the remaining mix of roughly 180 pristine never-played-and-once-played-to-tape vinyl in not-pristine-but-presentable covers, overall loss shouldn't be totally terrible.

Appreciate your comments on making sure drying is complete.  The cardboard itself was stuffed with paper toweling to hold open for professional restoration company drying fans to do their job (they were here anyway for drying other portions of the house, so re-aimed to blow over the albums the final four days).  The background drone of fan noise took some getting used to, but they did the job.  One unforeseen result was that many of the covers retained a misshapen open condition after the toweling was removed, but four more days' flattening  under 2' x 2' boards topped with considerable weight mostly resolved that, so as said above, ended up being not-pristine-but-presentable.  Overall we were pretty lucky, dealt with the damage quickly, vinyl was untouched, and covers got back to reasonable respectability.  Some other collector overall also will be pretty lucky on divestiture pricing.  I'll take the hit, but cushioned by the partial insurance recovery, so definitely softens the blow.

All-

my condolences to anyone whom lost his collection to the hazards of Mother Nature.  I barely escaped Hurricane Katrina w/ mine.

Concur w/ the panel- eBay will reach your largest audience with a "lot" sale.
Let the consumer offer you a price.  Audiogon would be a good 2nd option.

God Speed

Stanr ...

Sorry to hear about your loss ... 

I have thousands of LP's that I've collected over the years. I have many mint condition albums ... but I have albums that have really good covers, even mint covers with vinyl that's pretty noisy. I'd be happy to buy a bargain priced LP with a damaged cover in order to get the mint LP that resides inside of that cover.

I'll bet there's a lot of serious collectors out there who would buy some of your albums off of Ebay. Just tell it like it is: "Cover damaged in flood - record is mint." 

OP