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[gidgetgh]

Our house has suddenly become “needy”. I’d say LOL, but I haven’t been laughing. 

We thought we had a roof leak. Roof guy comes today, crawls out on the roof in the pouring rain and says we don’t have a roof leak. We have a hole in the dryer vent, which is on the roof and that’s causing the leak. So I called a dryer vent company. They can’t come till the 13th to replace it. And.  It.  Just. Keeps. On. Raining. 

Our master bedroom shower has a leak.  Plumber was here at the same time as the roof guy (and also at the same time as the refrigerator deliverers).  The entire shower has to be ripped out as the shower pan has been “compromised”. Part of the garage ceiling has to be ripped out and dried out and re-sheet rocked. The plumber called a contractor who handles all this for them. He arrived five minutes later so they were all here together. All of them. Scads of people. My nerves were shot.  The phone was also ringing off the hook. 

At this point, our across the street neighbor wandered over to see if we were ok because there were so many cars and trucks in our driveway. 

We opened a claim with our insurance company, but we have a huge deductible so more than likely, we’ll pay for the repair ourselves, based on the rough estimate the contractor gave us. 

There’s more that preceded all this, but that’s all been taken care of so I won’t bore you all with the details. 

[deb5555]

I would get 3 estimates/ opinions  before I started any work! Sorry about your money pit. 

[fthunt]

Timing of your post is interesting.  Right now - at this very moment I have 8 roofers putting on a new roof and trucks all over the place.  Husband and I put a new roof after we bought in 1985.  Haven't had any leaks but I've been watching this roof every year like a hawk.  Made the decision I wouldn't push my luck any further - - got a great reference about this company and am pleased so far.  Rain all around us - but so far it's holding off until six.

[AuntG]

We thought it was time to update things on our eighteen year old house. I think it was worth every penny. An interior color choice that I now regret isn't a real big deal and can be changed down the road. 

[vermint]

@gidgetgh I'm so sorry you're dealing with all this! My 32 year old house is becoming needy, too, so I know where you're coming from.

We do have an actual roof leak...it was patched and the roofer will be coming to do a better fix soon. The leak has caused the living and bedrooms to need painting even more than they did, but we'll wait till the roof has been fixed for sure.

I'm not looking forward to having all those people in/around my house either. It's very stressful!

Our office roof is leaking, too! It's a 100+ year old building so of course it has issues.

[wishmoon]

@gidgetgh So sorry this had to happen...especially all at once. 

Buy a lottery ticket, it can't hurt.

[luvdoodles]

Wow, that's a lot to deal with all at once. And all that rain doesn't help matters at all. It seems like when it rains it pours, just one thing after another. Hope your home can get back to some sort assembly soon. I would need a nice glass of wine and chill out. Good luck, tomorrow is another day.

[PINKdogWOOD]

Here's our current money pit problems from Saturday.

We're out running errands, come home and the smoke detector is blaring. Poor dog Wallace meets us at the door although he's picking up his feet as if he doesn't want to walk on the floor. Why? It's covered with water that came through the typical place in the kitchen ceiling, on top of this the ceiling fan was on flinging water everywhere. We let the dog outside, I dropped the bags of groceries in the dining room which at the edge b/t kit & dining room wall to wall is beginning to become wet. Not knowing what happened upstairs thinking the tub is leaking again and finally broke lose again (this will be the 4th or 5th time repairing the kit ceiling) we dash upstairs to what's my bathroom (DH is dowstrs) we find that our 1/2" thick tank to the 1950's retro dresden blue toilet cracked right down the middle. Who knows how or why this happened!!! Bathrm floor  is also wet.

DH stays there and cleans up there, I dash to the basement to get my spin mop because it's not only mopping the floor but now spin mopping/cleaning my kitchen walls that have streaks of water running down! Our salvation was that it was only tank water that's clean so...The ceiling fan still works but we're needing a new light bulb fixture for it. DH taking care of that after all my searching and phone calls as to where to find one.

Back to my '50s retro toilet - it just so happens Peerless still makes these retro colors, pink, yellow, green & blue so I ordered a brand new entirely new dresen blue toilet to be installed this weekend. Hole in ceiling will be worked on as well.

What's weird is that I just finished making 4 or 5 work folders for re-dos & upgrades in the pantry kit area, DH downstairs bathrm ie new tile floor, complete toilet & sink & countertop replacements, new cabinet & light in my bathroom, plumbing work needing done in the basement, the north wall being scraped, water proofed & painted in the basement, and new gutters/dowspouts all around.

This new stuff was not on my list of to-dos!!!!!  Welcome to our money pit! Best to all of you who also have money pits that eat us out of house & home - literally!!!!

Adding a PS - I forgot to note we also have some roofing concerns we need taken care of as well.

[SeaMaiden]

Yes....the blessings🤑🤑🤑🤑🤑 of homeownership 

[shaggygirl]

OMG, I haven't slept one good night's sleep in a couple of months fretting about all the c*&p that's been going wrong at my house. I sleep but then get up around midnight to use the bathroom and then my wheels start spinning about "stuff" and I toss & turn which is why sometimes I'm posting on here at all hours of the night. I too was plagued with water/roof/chimney problems since a bad storm last November. Finally got that resolved just a couple of weeks ago thank heavens because it is pouring right now and I dont feel compelled to have to pull down the attic stairs to see how wet the chimney is from water running down it nor how wet the wood beams in the attic are geting.. It's just been one costly thing after another.

Next up on the agenda as soon as the pool is closed for the season is the removal of 2 VERY VERY tall & full oak trees. They have to come down for a couple of reasons. We've had some wicked storms here in the Northeast, one of which caused major damage to many homes, and they just scare me the way they are leaning. Nothing is cheap to have done.

I'm not going into the plumbing issues. Just want to say, sometimes I feel so sorry for myself thinking someone "up there" is out to get me. So I sympathize with and have empathy for all of you having house problems. My Dad used to say, "If it isn't one thing it's two things!"