how not to spend your sunday

May 4, 2008 at 2:45 pm (home repair, the husband)

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So we notice a little stain on the ceiling in the foyer, just under one of the upstairs bathroom sinks. Well, technically not we. The boy noticed it a couple of days ago and I mentally filed it away to mention to dh. Apparently I put it in my mental circular file. Luckily dh noticed it himself yesterday and decided to do something about it first this this morning. Me? I would have remembered it about the time the ceiling caved in and we were all asthmatic from mold exposure.

So yeah, the drywall was more than a little damp as he cut into it. And so the hole got bigger and bigger, looking for the dry edges. Out came damp insulation, yuck. Out also came some some strange radiant heat tiles that hadn’t been used in years. We didn’t even know the system was in there. It didn’t take dh long to find the leak - since it’s still dripping - just a small pinhole in the copper fitting on the cold water pipe. Unfortunately, it will need to be replaced. As will the ceiling:

Wicked classy eh?

Perhaps I should have titled this “I wished I played the lottery this week.”

3 Comments

  1. nicole said,

    May 5, 2008 at 12:33 pm

    So I talked to the Fiancee about this. He said there is a rubber patch that you can purchase at the depot that would do the trick… But if you are considering doing a pipe patch, you will have to drain the house pipes (or at least that section) use a pipe cutter kit (really easy) and replace the piece with the hole.

  2. catnip35 said,

    May 5, 2008 at 12:56 pm

    Thanks for the advice! I’ll pass it along to dh.

  3. JJ said,

    May 5, 2008 at 9:37 pm

    That’s no fun!

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