I guess we have a leak in the roof.
Last night I stayed up to watch a DVR'd episode of the new Flash Gordon series on SciFi. The DVR is being flaky again, so we are trying to watch everything we've recorded before we trade it out for the umpteenth time. I guess it ended around 11:45pm. When I walked over to the front door to make sure it was locked, I noticed some water on the floor. It rained fairly heavily for the last few days, but this didn't appear to just be a bit of water I had tracked in after my walk yesterday in which I (and my favorite walking shoes) ended up quite soaked, even though I had taken a rain coat.
After doing some searching, I realized that water was dripping on the dining room table, and the tablecloth was soaked. Thank goodness Jeanie had a plastic coated table pad underneath the tablecloth or the finish on the dining room table would be ruined. The water was dripping from the lighting fixture which hangs from the middle of the ceiling. I removed the cloth and pad from the table, moved the table and chairs away from the center of the room, and dried off them, and the floor, off. I then went to the garage and got some plastic sheeting and a bucket. I ended up bringing the eight foot folding ladder into the house and resting the fixture on top of it so that I could move it from being directly underneath where the water was dripping from, which was near the junction box in the ceiling. I was a bit concerned about the possibility of the ceiling coming down as I could see wet lines at the drywall joints on either side of the hole for the junction box, which seemed to me to indicate that there was water on the top side of that entire sheet.
I then went up into the attic to see if I could locate the source of the leak, but was unable to get to the area over the dining room.
I sent an email to a number of acquaintances in the CAP unit and the flying club asking for references for a roofer / handyman. So far, I don't have any good leads, but fortunately, it looks like the rain is done for a while. Also fortunately, it appears that the leak is minor, as there only ended up being a few cups of water in the bucket this morning.
Hopefully, it won't end up being too major a hassle...
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Posted by David at September 20, 2007 12:34 PM