There are texts that you love to get from your wife.
Like:
- I love you
- I just made a steak dinner for you, hurry home
- I was thinking you needed some alone time, go to starbucks for a while
- You’ve been working really hard, let me give you a back rub
- There is extra money in the budget this month
Then again, there are things that you never want to hear from your wife.
Like:
- I Think there is a squirrel in our wood stove
- There is a mouse in our heating vents- COME HOME NOW
- A possum just declared war on the trash bag by the back door
- There is water pouring out of the light in the family room ceiling. I need you here.
Yesterday was the day that I received the last one. Sure enough I came home to find one of the lights in our ceiling dripping a fair amount of water. In case you have never experienced this, it is a really great feeling. Or not. Here’s another clue, water and electricity go together really well. No really they do.
I climbed up into the attic and located the drain/light and much to my shock found this:
Yes, that is a lovely source of water leaking in through the roof. It has come through the shingles, and then the plywood underlayment, running down the joyce to the drywall ceiling below upon which it finds it’s drain through the can light in the ceiling. Fabulous! TADA… I had found the source of the problem, now to figure out the fix.
Yes, that is a lovely source of water leaking in through the roof. It has come through the shingles, and then the plywood underlayment, running down the joyce to the drywall ceiling below upon which it finds it’s drain through the can light in the ceiling. Fabulous! TADA… I had found the source of the problem, now to figure out the fix.For this I would need to leave the ‘comfort’ of the 24 whole inches of clearance in the attic and clamor up on the roof in the rain. I headed over to about where I thought the light was and I found this… 
For those of you who are just like me, NOT ROOFERS, what you are looking at is a thumb size hole in the shingle. It went through two layers and was a beautiful little entrance site for water to begin it’s decent down through the roof and ultimately into a bucket on my family room floor. So being the weekend warrior that I am, I gathered up the essential tools and headed back up onto the roof to fix it.
For those of you who are just like me, NOT ROOFERS, what you are looking at is a thumb size hole in the shingle. It went through two layers and was a beautiful little entrance site for water to begin it’s decent down through the roof and ultimately into a bucket on my family room floor. So being the weekend warrior that I am, I gathered up the essential tools and headed back up onto the roof to fix it.
That’s right, a blow torch, and some caulk. That should solve every problem. I torched the roof and then smeared some silicone in the hole. Take that Norm Abrams. You should come and check out ‘This Old House’ here. I’ll teach you a thing or two about patching a roof.So there you have it. Next time your wife texts you something like, “There is water pouring out of the light in the family room ceiling. I need you here.” you’ll be totally prepared.
You can thank me later,
~Peter
P.S. we’ll have to see how my patch job stand up to our lady friend Irene who will be staying with us Saturday and Sunday.