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Clavus,
First and foremost have them get back out and fix the roof. The key word here in California is "mold" Tell them you see mold growing in the wet drywall. Any reputable contractor will shit his pants, and get his now brown goo covered butt over there and get it fixed. Seriously, mold is a major problem now. Insurance companies are getting up the butt for mold problems. Once the roof gets fixed, make sure everything is dry in the ceiling BEFORE they repair that. The mold will grow if anything is still wet. Also have them replace the carpet if it even remotely starts to smell. If mold has already started growing then have them tear down the WHOLE ceiling and and any sheetrock that had gotten even remotely wet and replaced.
The mold will eventually cause health problems if you have to live with it.
I have a window in our house, that when the first real hard rain hit started to leak from under the window. Contacted the builder, they said someone would be by in the next week or two. The next day the sheetrock started turning black, I called the company back up and told them it had started to get moldy. They put me on hold for a couple of minutes, when they came back on the line they told me they would have someone by the next morning. Long story short, they found the problem with the window, removed all the sheetrock around it, replaced with new sheetrock and a new windowsill. They most likely would have taken the week or so if not for the mold problem.
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