I gotta fix a leak
posted in Life and Whatnot |So I was in my bedroom looking to see if NBC had posted the latest episode of Heroes online yet because the stupid storm knocked my dish PVR off the air for the last 10 minutes of the show (what happened to Sylar? OMG BFF) when I hear a drip drip drip in the bathroom. “That’s strange,” I thought. “I have never really had any problems with leaking pipes. “ I ignore the drip drip for a couple of minutes and then go into the bathroom to investigate. The drip is not coming from the pipes. The drip is coming from the ceiling. No hole. No dark stain. Just a drop of water miraculously appearing on the popcorn white ceiling and dropping onto the carpeted tan mat below. Plop. Visions of a deluge of water from the 2nd floor bathroom appear in my head until I remember that I don’t have a 2nd floor. Just a leaky prone attic after the “almost” tornado a few months ago in Hurst tore down half my fence and ripped off a few shingles.
Not my house but kind of cool to look at.
So I grab a radio and turn up the volume in the bathroom so I can pinpoint where the problem spot is whilst I am traipsing around in the attic looking for this giant hole. Hey, how can your house look so big from the ground and yet so small in the attic? I wasn’t even close. Overshot it by at least 10 feet. I couldn’t hear the radio (brilliant plan that was) and had to get son number 1 to stand by with his cell phone and tap on the ceiling with the broom. “Knock 3 times on the ceiling if you want me …to fix this leak.”
Finally found it after inhaling several cancerous insulation fibers. It was water hitching a ride on a PVC pipe that was meandering towards the roof ending at some sort of vent. Anyway, some of the white foam fibers had turned black and slightly moldy but it wasn’t anything horrible. And I am certain that even my limited handyman skills will enable me to put some all weather caulk around the pipe.
Still never found that Heroes episode online. Stupid storm.
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