Help! Leaky roof!

Savvy_Sue

OK, we've got some quotes in, but I don't know when the job's going to be done, and meanwhile I have water dripping from ceilings in various places.

The most difficult one to deal with is coming from an angle of the roof. And the water is dripping down onto the landing / stairs. I've got a bucket sat on a few phone books on the desk to bring it up above the level of the bannisters so that it's in the right place to 'catch' the drips, but it sort of splashes back and is spraying the desk. I've tried putting a flannel in to muffle that, but it doesn't seem to help much. Would stuffing a whole towel in do the job?

I can't work out if getting the bucket closer to the drip would mean more splashing or less. But I'm not sure I can get it any closer in a sensible way, because the bucket is half on the bannisters and half on the phone book. I can't move the bucket further away because the drip is hitting the bannisters ...

I've draped everything in towels ... I swear this drip keeps moving: last few days it's been 'caught' by a narrow jug sat on the landing, but on the wrong side of the bannisters. Nothing's going into that now ... it's all hitting the bannisters.

And there's a vile weather warning for the SW tonight ... :eek:

kat21

*lol* well ring them up and ask them and get it in writting, say could you please confirm your availablity to undertake the said works on which date will you commence and how long will the repairs take (start finnish date). you should always ask for things like this in writting dont do it over the telephone write a letter to your prefered builder and make sure hes accredited.
kat21

Savvy_Sue

kat21 wrote:

*lol* well ring them up and ask them and get it in writting, say could you please confirm your availablity to undertake the said works on which date will you commence and how long will the repairs take (start finnish date). you should always ask for things like this in writting dont do it over the telephone write a letter to your prefered builder and make sure hes accredited.
kat21

It's all a lot more complicated than that ... which I won't go into here!

Whenever the work gets done, I have a problem with water splashing now, so if anyone has any bright ideas about that I'd be grateful! The dripping is slowing down now, presumably the rain is easing off, just have to hope it doesn't wake me up in the night ...

Frell

Have you attempted to use the good ole blue peter fave Sticky back Plastic and stickie tape :P :rotfl:

Savvy_Sue

Frell wrote:

Have you attempted to use the good ole blue peter fave Sticky back Plastic and stickie tape :P :rotfl:

Do you mean on the ceiling? Or on the outside of the roof?

Only neither are exactly accessible: outside you'd need scaffolding to get to it (there's a porch in the way!), and inside the leak's on a 'crack': half of it is over the landing, and half of it is over the stairs. Even if I climb on the desk (or make one of my sons climb on the desk! :rotfl: ) there's no way we can stretch far enough to tape it up.

Plus then I'd get water accumulating behind the sticky back plastic, wouldn't I?

I suppose I could always put a towel in the bucket and see if that makes it splash less ... Trial and error, as they say ...

Savvy_Sue

Savvy_Sue wrote:

I suppose I could always put a towel in the bucket and see if that makes it splash less ... Trial and error, as they say ...

I don't know if it makes it splash less, because I didn't open my eyes wide enough at 3.15 am to notice, but I can report that stuffing a towel in the bucket definitely reduces the Chinese Water Torture effect ...