I had a meeting with a contractor yesterday to get some e...
I had a meeting with a contractor yesterday to get some estimates on fixing the worst of our house issues. We've had a slow but persistent leak in the bathroom ceiling for a while and the bases of the pillars holding up the front porch roof are disintegrating. (Which sounds a little like we're living in a decomposing yet glamorous Tennessee Williams style house, but really not. It is sinking slowly into the ground, thus the cracks in the walls and the uneven porch, so it's more like something out of Chesterton's Father Brown stories or Poe, by way of 1970s suburbia.) And there's the leaking upstairs windows.
But the thing that really did it, was that in the past year I have had two friends, two, who had two story houses with leaks in the upstairs bathrooms. And in both cases those leaks caused the kitchen ceilings to suddenly collapse without warning. In one case, it pretty much hollowed out the entire downstairs. So when I walked into my upstairs bathroom (which is above the kitchen) and felt a small spot where the linoleum floor was bubbled up and not attached to the subfloor anymore, I decided we really needed to do something now. (Instead of ignoring it and hoping it would just get tired of it and stop, like the house's other problems.) There have also been some other telltale signs of water in the wrong spots, like disintegrating caulk and orangish mold that won't go away.
Anyway, the contractor found other places where the subfloor feels mushy, and there are some very subtle signs in the kitchen ceiling that all is not well. He actually doesn't think it's going to be a very big deal compared to say, the kitchen ceiling collapsing and taking all the drywall throughout the lower part of the house with it. Hopefully we'll be able to afford that plus getting all the other stuff taken care of too.
Does anybody know when the new season of Eureka is going to start up again?
Books I'm about to start reading when I get time:
Kraken by China Mieville
The Broken Kingdoms by N.K. Jemisin
And Blessed by Cynthia Leitich Smith is now out.
But the thing that really did it, was that in the past year I have had two friends, two, who had two story houses with leaks in the upstairs bathrooms. And in both cases those leaks caused the kitchen ceilings to suddenly collapse without warning. In one case, it pretty much hollowed out the entire downstairs. So when I walked into my upstairs bathroom (which is above the kitchen) and felt a small spot where the linoleum floor was bubbled up and not attached to the subfloor anymore, I decided we really needed to do something now. (Instead of ignoring it and hoping it would just get tired of it and stop, like the house's other problems.) There have also been some other telltale signs of water in the wrong spots, like disintegrating caulk and orangish mold that won't go away.
Anyway, the contractor found other places where the subfloor feels mushy, and there are some very subtle signs in the kitchen ceiling that all is not well. He actually doesn't think it's going to be a very big deal compared to say, the kitchen ceiling collapsing and taking all the drywall throughout the lower part of the house with it. Hopefully we'll be able to afford that plus getting all the other stuff taken care of too.
Does anybody know when the new season of Eureka is going to start up again?
Books I'm about to start reading when I get time:
Kraken by China Mieville
The Broken Kingdoms by N.K. Jemisin
And Blessed by Cynthia Leitich Smith is now out.
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