Tuesday 13-Oct-09
A very hard rain throughout the Bay Area this past couple of days. I went to the house with Leo to board up the broken window in the add-on section of the house. This was also the room that held the fiberglass insulation. We stored it there in the hopes that we might be able to reuse it. Unfortunately, the insulation had gotten wet and smelled really bad! I am leaning toward disposing of all of the insulation due to the horrid stink that it produces.
I inspected the roof and found some minor leakage. Thankfully a majority of the leaking is not under the main section of the house. There are some minor areas, the front left wall (facing the house) that showed signs of leaking. From what I can see the leaks are from the cracks in the siding of the house. I will need to examine this further. However the addition in the rear of the house did leak, and left a 1/4" puddle in the basement against the south-east corner of the floor.
What it does confirm is that the roof over the main section of the house isn't leaking, and that it is only the construction of the addition that was primarily faulty. There is a larger issue here that we will eventually need to deal with.
A window was mistakenly left open in the front room and the floor underneath it was wet. I wiped the water off of the hardwood floor and hoped that is would not be damaged.
Labor Time 1.5 hours
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