You Know What Stinks?

cep1976

When your roof, which you just got redone last summer, starts leaking during all the rain we've had this week. Argh.

Luckily, our next door neighbor is the contractor who did the roof, and his best guess is that with the wind from the hurricane and/or the earthquake, the flashing around the chimney got displaced, allowing water to come in there.

Thank God for contractor neighbors you can call in a panic at 10pm! 

BirdGirl01

Hopefully he also offered a temporary solution!  That does stink!

Similarly, I got a call from my nanny today asking whether water in the basement was OK?  Uh, no, it is not.  We have various issues that might cause water in the basement.  Fortunately, as the options go, this was an easy fix.  But we still had a very wet basement!  I'm ready for the rain to be done.  

kastle

we also had some water in our basement this morning.  and our basement never gets water in it!  I think one of the windows isn't sealed well (it's ancient) and it was seeping in from the corner.

also?  our a/c broke at some point yesterday.  sleeping with the windows open was hella loud. i hope it can be fixed today---we just got that a/c last year!

SecretServiceWife

That does stink.

I'm surprised out basement floor isn't wet.  Anytime it rains the carpet gets wet in one spot, but this time not so much. 

mssaint

Our french drain seems to have stopped working completely and we have standing water up next to the house. DH hooked up a pump that he uses for brewing and drained it to the back of our yard. Three times. The basement is still dry, knock on wood, but there's no basement next to where the standing water is -- just slab, so I'm terrified of what might be happening to our foundation. Once this is over, I think we're going to spend the big bucks to get the landscape project done, which should help with the grading. Thank goodness for savings.