I woke up last night and couldn't fall back to sleep. When that happens I tend to wander around the house and make sure everything is ok and then go back to bed and hope for slumber.
I heard a splashing sound coming from the deck area of the house and that could only mean one thing...the drain for the gutter is clogged and overflowing. Instead of the water running down the drain-pipe and away from the house it was falling next to the foundation.
It turns out that there's a crack and it lets water seep into the basement if water builds up there. I went into the basement and a small amount had started to pool in the basement so I put an old towel on it to soak it up.
Then I went back upstairs to address the immediate problem of water falling against the house. I got dressed and went outside in the pouring rain at 4:30am to spread a tarp over that area. I secured part of it up on the deck so that it had some slope to it so water would drain away from the house.
I totally lead the most exciting life, don't I?
Posted by bbarton at April 3, 2005 07:59 PMOh yeah, I'll be fixing it with a ladder this weekend when it isn't raining outside. :) I had to do it in the fall and should have known that 'stuff' would accumulate in there this winter.
Posted by: Bob on April 5, 2005 09:10 PM
You should try the fun of fixing it with a ladder (thinks: does aluminium conduct electricity) and your hands plunged into the wet mulch in the gutter as water goes everywhere.
Your raincoat sticks to your skin because it is best to do it naked save for your sandals.
Torch picking out the spear drops of rain.
Then again, I have only tried this once, and it was the top side of the house so it was only storey high. And it was summer rain so I wasn't shivering with the cold.
Sold the house before we got the plumbing right, to a man who might have the money to do it properly - but I fear he didn't care.
Posted by: David Tiley on April 5, 2005 08:35 PM