The @#$%*&?%$*& repairs didn't work, even though I'd put enough roofing pitch to fix the hole in the bow of the Titanic. In the night of Sunday to Monday it was raining, freezing rain and snow. I got up in the the middle of the night to get a glass of water and my two feet were suddenly in cold icy water with some of it dripping down my neck. (Now I know what the people of the Titanic must have felt... darkness and your feet in cold water that isn't supposed to be there. I can seriously say that it wakes you up in a hurry.) Mop and bucket time along with a litany of choice swearing in two languages. (Being bilingual does have its advantages, I just have to learn Spanish and I'll be even more creative.) The next morning I got out the phone book and started at the top of the list and worked my way down until I found someone willing to come and fix the roof. In the meantime the weather had cleared up some, thank god and the guys could get on with the job. They first ripped up the shingles around the vent, thinking like me, that it was causing the problem. As they uncovered the roof they discovered more and more wet areas. The water was not just coming from the vent. It was coming from the joint between the two roofs. We have a mansard roof that comes down onto the roof of the other half of the house. When we had the roof redone the contractor who did it, did not do the joint correctly and so the water was coming down from the other roof and under the shingles of the lower roof. Boy was I pissed off, the repair guy couldn't believe what a shit job had been done, so he ripped up the shingles along the joint all the way to the peak of the roof and redid everything correctly. I also had the vent taken out and the hole repaired, since the vent was really badly placed and couldn't help leaking there. (I'll put in a ventless fan with a carbon filter in the kitchen. ) After having fixed the outside, I called the insurance and they sent over a a damage team to clean up and dry out the mess. They were very efficient but I kind of pitied them since the insulation I have in the attic is loose insulation that is blown into the attic covered with blankets of fibreglass insulation. Let me tell you that when it is wet it turns into a brown sludge and when they took the wet gyprock ceiling down they were up to their knees in the stuff, some of it wet and some dry, what a mess. They cleaned everything up and covered up the hole with plastic until the insurance gives the OK for them to repair the damage... So that was the beginning of my week, I hope that yours was better...
