January 02, 2003

Hopefully someone will come

Hopefully someone will come by and take a look at the house after some nagging from our real estate agent. With the recent rainstorms, some defects have become apparent. A big bubble formed in the paint of the kitchen ceiling from the water seeping through. It actually began leaking during the night of the last storm, enough to get the bucket out, but not before we got up in the morning, which meant that the kitchen floor got a good soaking. Now the hardwood floor is warping and rippling. There's also water leaking near the bay windows in the living room and seeping through the carpet in the master bedroom. All the leaks seems to be near outside drainage pipes, which explains why the leaks showed up during the rain. Good thing the storms were big enough to soak through the wood and force the water through, otherwise we might not have found about about the leaks until the wood rotted. As it is, this doesn't have the look of a cheap thing to fix. Maybe if we have to rip out enough of the wall we can redo the interior wiring while we're at it. More Cat5 and RG6 would be nice.

Posted by mikewang on 02:05 PM