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Oct. 24th, 2021 11:19 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
madbakerI got up this morning to feed the cat. When I went into the back porch for her food, I discovered the floor was quite wet. So were a bunch of things we store there. The metal flashing above the window had apparently rusted open in places, and because it's been so dry we hadn't particularly noticed. Until our current Pineapple Express* rainstorm.
Water was soaking in three spots, through the wall, and dripping down. After some cogitation we drafted the fuzzy upstairs neighbor to help (since he's much taller than I am, he has arm reach to match). We now have a redneck engineering fix: leftover Visquene stapled to a wooden slat, itself stapled to the wall above the window and flashing. There are still some drips, but not the one-per-second we were getting previously.
We'll see if we can find a construction person to come in and repair, but for right now this is better than it was. (Just trashier. It makes me want to put a car on blocks.)
*Apparently the current term is "atmospheric river", but this is the term I grew up with here in the Bay Area so ptthppthpt.
Water was soaking in three spots, through the wall, and dripping down. After some cogitation we drafted the fuzzy upstairs neighbor to help (since he's much taller than I am, he has arm reach to match). We now have a redneck engineering fix: leftover Visquene stapled to a wooden slat, itself stapled to the wall above the window and flashing. There are still some drips, but not the one-per-second we were getting previously.
We'll see if we can find a construction person to come in and repair, but for right now this is better than it was. (Just trashier. It makes me want to put a car on blocks.)
*Apparently the current term is "atmospheric river", but this is the term I grew up with here in the Bay Area so ptthppthpt.
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Date: 2021-10-25 03:40 am (UTC)