Δαφνη Ευτυχια Αρθουρος

Oy vey. Once in a while I hear a dripping sound in the office, but I've never been able to see any sign of any drips. Just now I finally tracked it down. Against the wall under the place where the 2nd-floor roof meets the 3rd-floor rear wall, there's a built in ... thingie with shelves at the bottom, two narrow shelf units with doors on them on either side of a large area backed with mirror-tile, and a single long top shelf above all that. Water is leaking behind the vertical end-board on the side that's against the exterior wall. Where I can't see it, but I can hear it. The visible clue is a wee bit of seepage spreading out from a gap in the moulding at the floor, and the remaining clue is from the directionality of human hearing.

I got my head wet leaning out the 3rd-floor rear window with a flashlight. It looks like the tarpaper from the 2nd-floor roof extends a short distance up the rear wall of the 3rd floor ... and the corner of it under that window (and over that bookcase-thingie) has peeled back. So rain is getting collected there. And it's too stiff for me to push back into place by leaning out the window with a stick. I'm going to have to go out on the roof and see what I can do (if anything). I think I'm going to wait for a) daylight and b) sometime when it's not raining.

At least I managed to put the buckets back into their correct locations in the back room of the 3rd floor before the floor got very wet -- they sit on a towel, which means that when Perrine gets into zoom-kitty mode, things get slid around a bit up there.

And at least the new leak is in a visible spot, so I'll have some clue where to start when I try to fix it. That's something. Hey, maybe if I tie weights to one and of a plastic tarp and throw that out onto the roof, and slam the other end in the window, I can keep rain off of that spot?

Oh yeah, it's raining. And I can't find a comfortable position in which to fall asleep. It's one of those nights.

[Added 2004-12-01 04:13] Tarp has been crudely placed. Now to see how much it helps. If this works, maybe I'll just cover my whole house in blue plastic tarps like I do my tent at Pennsic. I wonder whether the city would have a conniption fit if I did that.