what's your weather currently like?

Lots of rain has revealed what was likely a slow leak around the chimney. It finally showed its ugly face yesterday afternoon. It was fun going on the roof mid-downpour with a tarp, biggie cords, and cinderblocks. It was also fun crawling through fairly recent blown-in insulation in the attic. What struck me was the leak appeared about 12 feet away from the chimney, makes me wonder where else it has gone..

Having a roofing company come inspect tomorrow. I need to get some sleep as I work this weekend. Priority one was to attempt to contain it. Hopefully the repairs don't cost too much. The shingles appear to be in great shape. Gutters are good and clean. Recently added vent covers appear to still look new. I didn't see anything dripping from around those during my tyvec suit swim in 2 feet of ground paper.

For the record, I absolutely hate house projects and home construction materials. Give me steel. Give me concrete. Give me cars. I would rather bust knuckles under-hood than fix a roof. And no, universe, that was not a challenge lol. I don't mind painting, including prep work for it. But beyond that, take my money someone else.

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PouncingPanzer said:
Lots of rain has revealed what was likely a slow leak around the chimney. It finally showed its ugly face yesterday afternoon. It was fun going on the roof mid-downpour with a tarp, biggie cords, and cinderblocks. It was also fun crawling through fairly recent blown-in insulation in the attic. What struck me was the leak appeared about 12 feet away from the chimney, makes me wonder where else it has gone..

Having a roofing company come inspect tomorrow. I need to get some sleep as I work this weekend. Priority one was to attempt to contain it. Hopefully the repairs don't cost too much. The shingles appear to be in great shape. Gutters are good and clean. Recently added vent covers appear to still look new. I didn't see anything dripping from around those during my tyvec suit swim in 2 feet of ground paper.

For the record, I absolutely hate house projects and home construction materials. Give me steel. Give me concrete. Give me cars. I would rather bust knuckles under-hood than fix a roof. And no, universe, that was not a challenge lol. I don't mind painting, including prep work for it. But beyond that, take my money someone else.

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Same, although not the same things, but there's things I can do, and enjoy doing, and thing I can do, and don't enjoy, but there's a nice big list of things I can't do.

I think it was Dirty Harold who said, "a man's got to know his limitations", and I do.
 
Big Dave said:
Same, although not the same things, but there's things I can do, and enjoy doing, and thing I can do, and don't enjoy, but there's a nice big list of things I can't do.

I think it was Dirty Harold who said, "a man's got to know his limitations", and I do.
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That's a great quote.

My dream home would be very cold and probably look similar to a German Blockhaus on the Atlantic Wall lol.

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PouncingPanzer said:
Lots of rain has revealed what was likely a slow leak around the chimney. It finally showed its ugly face yesterday afternoon. It was fun going on the roof mid-downpour with a tarp, biggie cords, and cinderblocks. It was also fun crawling through fairly recent blown-in insulation in the attic. What struck me was the leak appeared about 12 feet away from the chimney, makes me wonder where else it has gone..

Having a roofing company come inspect tomorrow. I need to get some sleep as I work this weekend. Priority one was to attempt to contain it. Hopefully the repairs don't cost too much. The shingles appear to be in great shape. Gutters are good and clean. Recently added vent covers appear to still look new. I didn't see anything dripping from around those during my tyvec suit swim in 2 feet of ground paper.

For the record, I absolutely hate house projects and home construction materials. Give me steel. Give me concrete. Give me cars. I would rather bust knuckles under-hood than fix a roof. And no, universe, that was not a challenge lol. I don't mind painting, including prep work for it. But beyond that, take my money someone else.

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Bummer, hope it ends up being easy to contain/fix. There's things about owning a house that I miss but that kind of crap is not among them.
 
PouncingPanzer said:
Lots of rain has revealed what was likely a slow leak around the chimney. It finally showed its ugly face yesterday afternoon. It was fun going on the roof mid-downpour with a tarp, biggie cords, and cinderblocks. It was also fun crawling through fairly recent blown-in insulation in the attic. What struck me was the leak appeared about 12 feet away from the chimney, makes me wonder where else it has gone..

Having a roofing company come inspect tomorrow. I need to get some sleep as I work this weekend. Priority one was to attempt to contain it. Hopefully the repairs don't cost too much. The shingles appear to be in great shape. Gutters are good and clean. Recently added vent covers appear to still look new. I didn't see anything dripping from around those during my tyvec suit swim in 2 feet of ground paper.

For the record, I absolutely hate house projects and home construction materials. Give me steel. Give me concrete. Give me cars. I would rather bust knuckles under-hood than fix a roof. And no, universe, that was not a challenge lol. I don't mind painting, including prep work for it. But beyond that, take my money someone else.

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Sounds like storm damage. You should be able to get a new roof through insurance
Consult a reputable roofing company and see what they say
 
PouncingPanzer said:
Lots of rain has revealed what was likely a slow leak around the chimney.
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Is the chimney old? I had a leak around my chimney, turned out it was coming through the masonry, a $20 gallon of masonry sealer in my pump-up sprayer solved it. They tell me you have to reapply apply every 5 years or so. The key clue was it would only leak during windy rain.
 
Setec Astronomy said:
Is the chimney old? I had a leak around my chimney, turned out it was coming through the masonry, a $20 gallon of masonry sealer in my pump-up sprayer solved it. They tell me you have to reapply apply every 5 years or so. The key clue was it would only leak during windy rain.
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Mortar does get crumbly and more porous overtime. We'll see what the second company suggest. I contained the leak so we are able to shop some.

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Cooler than normal weather this weekend.,..around 70 with a little wind.
 
42 and cloudy with a soggy outlook for the foreseeable future
 
Spring in PA? Been cool and a lot of rain. 43 last night. On vacation this week. Calling for rain just about all week. Great.
 
Yeah, so summer is not here yet

42 F down here and who knows what the temp is up there

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And no, it’s not dusk

The sun doesn’t set until 11:10 PM and it’s 6:00 PM now


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Little bit of rain overnight, they said a change would blow through this morning and we'd have some fine weather for a few days, well it blew through this morning, and brought the dust with it, and most cars are still wet from the rain last night.
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Big Dave said:
Little bit of rain overnight, they said a change would blow through this morning and we'd have some fine weather for a few days, well it blew through this morning, and brought the dust with it, and most cars are still wet from the rain last night.
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Yuck


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