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posted by [personal profile] eftychia at 11:20pm on 2003-10-14

It rained this evening. When it started, I made sure buckets were under all the current drip-spots on the third floor -- and the drips were in slightly different places than they'd been the last time (back to where they were a month or so ago). When I went back up there later, one bucket had completely overflowed, with a huge puddle around it, and in the other room the leaks had moved during the couple hours in question, resulting in a wet floor over a large area (but not quite enough water to be called a puddle). I thought I was okay because I'd checked where everything was dripping early on. I am going to be so glad when this roof is repaired.

Looking for the silver lining ... Perrine is being extra adorable tonight. Impossibly cute as she drags one end of a rope away from me, clever in how she prevents me from pulling it back, wide-eyed playful, hiding in ways that are clearly peek-a-boo (I'm supposed to see her), and so on.

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Sorry!

posted by [identity profile] jim-p.livejournal.com at 08:30pm on 2003-10-14
Drips, unfortunately, are dynamic things. It's not like water falls straight through a hole in the roof onto the floor... it's more like it falls down the roof through a crack down the inside of the roof down a rafter until it slows to where it can pool up and then drip through the ceiling and onto the floor or something like that. What that means is that drip locations can often change depending on how hard it's raining and which way the wind is blowing...

Aren't kitties cute when they play tug-of-war with you? :)
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posted by [identity profile] butterfluff.livejournal.com at 08:52pm on 2003-10-14
Would it have been worse if you had gotten to practice?
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posted by [identity profile] merde.livejournal.com at 09:38pm on 2003-10-14
glenn, sweetie, it's time for you to recruit some of your manlier friends to go up on the roof and cover it with tarps weighed down with bricks.

you know i'd do it myself if i were there. i've always been more of a boy than you.
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Kitty Gifts

posted by [identity profile] aliza250.livejournal.com at 11:40pm on 2003-10-14
Perrine needs to read this: http://www.livejournal.com/community/note_to_cat/35605.html
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posted by [identity profile] juuro.livejournal.com at 04:44am on 2003-10-15
A question on construction detail springs to mind... Is there an underlay beneath the shingles, or whatever the roofing material is? In this country it is unthinkable not to have an intermediate layer beneath the shingle or rooftile. This underlay will lead the inevitable windblown or otherwise dripping water safely to the eaves. I have been told that in some warmer countries the practice is unknown.

-o-

Your silver lining brought a smile on my face, too.
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posted by [identity profile] donnad.livejournal.com at 05:24am on 2003-10-15
You might consider putting a big tarp (or huge piece of plastic up over the entire ceiling in the room that leaks, with one end of it (the point where the water empties from it) a little lower and into a big plastic garbage barrel. that way, whenever it leaks, no matter where it leaks from, it all ends up in the same barrel. To empty the barrel, run a garden hose out the window. No lifting, all the water ends up in the same place.
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