I wrote this a month ago when the leak started and it was peak firefly season, but I didn’t want to post it until the infrastructure problem was under control. Now firefly season is mostly over, but there will be more next summer and they’ll be magic too.
I’d love to hear your ceiling leak or open car window or flooded basement horror stories, I think they’d make me feel better. And I’d love to hear who you usually call for advice. No one is calling me for roofing tips, and it will probably stay that way.
Have a good week, and I hope you scare your parents in all the best ways.
Oh man, I had a ceiling leak last year--the kind where a whole chunk of ceiling turns into to world's worst water balloon, waiting to pop and drench you with water.
It trickled from my upstairs walls to my kitchen ceiling, leaving destroyed plaster in its wake.
Insurance covered a new roof (old one was installed wrong??) and water mitigation (including a giant industrial dehumidifier--it dried ME out so much I started getting bloody noses) and repair. HOWEVER, they found lead paint, so instead of a quick & easy repair job, it required mitigation with walled off plastic partitions and took way longer.
Hopefully this makes you feel better?! It can happen to anyone, and sometimes there's dangerous paint. 0/10 would not recommend.
I love the way you put these together. So sweet, and moving with the mention of Isaac. Thank you for sharing.
My horror story: Recently, we had a leak through our living room ceiling. After cutting a whole in it to inspect what the problem was, it turns out the people that built the house never put the water barrier OR the pan that is supposed to go under the shower to prevenent any leakage from rotting the wood. The floor in the entire upstairs bathroom was rotted, and we had to tear everything out and replace it. As I type this, I am under a 3x2 foot hole that is still just...chilling in my ceiling.