As the rain falls down on us… May 25, 2007
Posted by spacemom in : Life...otherwise, Home wreckers , trackbackOkay, it wasn’t rain, but it was water. From the living room ceiling. The day before a trip.Lovely.
Let me backup. Today I worked from home to finish the packing. In between some coding and emails, I would double check my mental packing lists and add something else. Around 3pm, Jay put his presentation in the art tube and I jumped! Something had fallen from the ceiling! My first instinct, as a true arachnophobia, was SPIDER! No, it wasn’t a spider, it was water. We both looked up. OH HELL! The ceiling is WET in a pattern that matches the joists.
We looked at each other and said “Air conditioner!”. Jay got a flashlight and gloves, I turned off the a/c. He went up and reported water on the floor (ie, the drywall for the ceiling), but no source! The overflow for the condensation pan was fine and dry. He went along the length of the drain pipe and where he could see it, bone dry!
I called the company that installed it and set up an emergency call. We had to find the source. I then called a friend to have them call us. If we needed work done tomorrow, they would have to be here.
Meanwhile, Jay was up in the attic (did I mention today was 93 out? So the attic was about 115. It was nasty.) and pulled back all of the insulation back and finding the extent of the water. I got up there and was able to point out that it could be right where a duct went over the drain pipe. Turns out that was exactly where the drain pipe had broken.
We took some photos and called the company back to let them know we found the source. The guy did come and it appears that there is a slight rise in that segment of pipe. The water gets stuck in that segment. Come winter, the water froze. Hence, a burst drain pipe.
He fixed he broken segment, and added some T joints with the holes placed upwards to allow any trapped water to evaporate.
Now, what to do about the water stained ceiling? The water was right on the drywall for the ceiling. Do we have to replace it? From my experience once drywall is wet, it is not good anymore.
Any thoughts?
Sigh…
Oh- Soleil and Luna are in row 30 of the plane. I’m in row 29 and Jay’s in 27. Lovely. Can’t fix this over the phone.
At least the second flight we were able to combine the seats together.
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Oh No! I hope all is forgotten now that you are in hawaii!! I forgot you were at the new site and din’t realize you had posted…