Management Says MORE PICTURES!
In the monthly "How We Doing" meeting the other day, management realized we were down 4,000 hits from last month. Their solution is more pictures. "Everybody loves pictures. Get em up there!" was all that was heard. Apparently trying to create pictures with words isn't cutting it. Luckily for me, management and you the viewer, yesterday presented us with a perfect picture post. Here it goes.
It rained hard Thursday night into Friday morning. Between the rain pounding my window, the thunder rattling the house, and the Invisible Fence controller beeping, I wasn't getting much sleep. It was 12:30am or so when I got up and went downstairs to see what was wrong with the IF. My fear was it got struck by lightening and was beeping to tell me so. The light blinked green, which means every thing's cool. It still beeped. As a precautionary measure and just to shut it up, I unplugged it all - the dog wasn't going out in this mess anyway. I go back upstairs and lay in bed for the next hour or so as the storm rages all around.
Fast forward to the morning. Jen gets up and heads to the kitchen. I hear a little scream (just a little one) and think the cat has left a dead mouse for us on the kitchen floor. I ask what's up and she says we have a puddle.
Without seeing it I try to figure out a source. We hadn't run the dishwasher. Did something spill out of the sink? Then Jen says it's very localized. It doesn't come or go from the cabinets. We look up - directly above it.
When we moved in, we installed an exhaust fan in the kitchen. Somehow the rain came through it. The fan sucks air from the kitchen and blows it out through a vent in the roof. The fan and roof vent both have storm flaps. The only thing we could figure was a bird in its spring nesting fury somehow made a nest in the vent and got the storm flap stuck open. Here it was 7am and I'm climbing on the roof in the rain in my pajamas.
The vent is fine. Now my worst fears have been confirmed. In addition to exhaust vents, we also had a new roof put on when we bought the house. The roofer was a real pain in the ass and I've never been completely comfortable with the job he did. Now a year and a half into our thirty year roof, it's leaking into our kitchen. Out of the rain, back into the house and up into the attic to inspect the damage.
The roof was fine (that was a relief), but I still had to figure out what happened. The exhaust fan and its ductwork are covered with insulation. After pulling some of it away, I found this.
See the wetness on the wood? If you look real close, you can see it on the ductwork too. The only thing we can figure is the storm was strong enough to hold open the storm flap and blow enough rain in to pool in the ductwork, drip through, soak the ceiling and drip onto the kitchen floor. I'm not really sure we can fix it and hoping it was just a freak thing.
-b
It rained hard Thursday night into Friday morning. Between the rain pounding my window, the thunder rattling the house, and the Invisible Fence controller beeping, I wasn't getting much sleep. It was 12:30am or so when I got up and went downstairs to see what was wrong with the IF. My fear was it got struck by lightening and was beeping to tell me so. The light blinked green, which means every thing's cool. It still beeped. As a precautionary measure and just to shut it up, I unplugged it all - the dog wasn't going out in this mess anyway. I go back upstairs and lay in bed for the next hour or so as the storm rages all around.
Fast forward to the morning. Jen gets up and heads to the kitchen. I hear a little scream (just a little one) and think the cat has left a dead mouse for us on the kitchen floor. I ask what's up and she says we have a puddle.
Without seeing it I try to figure out a source. We hadn't run the dishwasher. Did something spill out of the sink? Then Jen says it's very localized. It doesn't come or go from the cabinets. We look up - directly above it.When we moved in, we installed an exhaust fan in the kitchen. Somehow the rain came through it. The fan sucks air from the kitchen and blows it out through a vent in the roof. The fan and roof vent both have storm flaps. The only thing we could figure was a bird in its spring nesting fury somehow made a nest in the vent and got the storm flap stuck open. Here it was 7am and I'm climbing on the roof in the rain in my pajamas.The vent is fine. Now my worst fears have been confirmed. In addition to exhaust vents, we also had a new roof put on when we bought the house. The roofer was a real pain in the ass and I've never been completely comfortable with the job he did. Now a year and a half into our thirty year roof, it's leaking into our kitchen. Out of the rain, back into the house and up into the attic to inspect the damage.The roof was fine (that was a relief), but I still had to figure out what happened. The exhaust fan and its ductwork are covered with insulation. After pulling some of it away, I found this.
See the wetness on the wood? If you look real close, you can see it on the ductwork too. The only thing we can figure is the storm was strong enough to hold open the storm flap and blow enough rain in to pool in the ductwork, drip through, soak the ceiling and drip onto the kitchen floor. I'm not really sure we can fix it and hoping it was just a freak thing.-b
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