my roof is leaking

sympathy would be welcome

;_;

Oh man, been there and it SUCKS. We used to have these big "mushrooms" on the llivingroom walls.Oh yeah, we were too poor and it wasn't our house anyway.

Is it the first time, Daniel? How bad?

Thanks for the solidarity:)

I've "been there" before as well, but in a different flat.

It woke me up at about 3am and I started mopping up. My girlfriend woke me up some time after I got back to sleep saying, helpfully, "I think there's something leaking in the flat".

It's not so bad as this place is a loft and the sloping ceiling is pine and not wallpaper. (My previous experience of this was mushrooms on the wallpaper, as you describe, Nathalie).

Mine too: Previously fine spare bedroom ceiling now stained and dripping near the window, dang and blast it. I've been in the attic and see nothing wrong, so am assuming it might be a blocked gutter in which case a terrifying external ladder ascent is on the cards this weekend - unless I get my usual attack of vertigo and then end up calling a roofer. On previous form it's going to be £££ to fix.

The misery is further compounded by having put our house up for sale this very week, so I have to keep willing my eyes away from it when showing people round. Daniel, you have my deepest and most empathetic sympathy!

Thanks for the kind words, Bill.

How do you avoid showing people the spare room? Lick of paint every time someone comes round to view the place?

All the best, anyway

i had roof leaks in five separate rooms on the weekend :(

every towel in the house was in use!

>How do you avoid showing people the spare room?

I stand on the other side of the room making expansive gesturing motions in any direction except towards the sagging ceiling paper. Once I've had a look at the damage tomorrow I'll be trying to dry it out and shore things up, or paying a professional to do this.

>every towel in the house was in use!

before a viewing yesterday I was desperately stuffing the wringing wet rags into the washer.

Daniel and electricsound, may your leaks be fixed quick smart. Or just magically stop leaking, whichever is soonest.

The forecast here in Luxembourg is for heavy rain all weekend :(

No roof leaks yet but worrying they may be inevitable after realising that the roof over the bedroom is flat and walled in on 2 sides - there's another flat roof opposite the window and the rain pools on it for days after every rainstorm and the roof surface is buckling a bit near where the water stands.

Been lying awake listening to the considerable noise rain makes on the roof, spotting marks on the bedroom ceiling and top few inches of the wall and staring at them nervously, etc.

good luck, leaking-roof ilxors

i feel bad about complaining because rain is v v needed in this part o' the world

I hate the feeling: you want your house/flat to be cozy, warm and DRY. shelter from outside. Hope don't have much water anymore, Daniel

my friends were showcasing their house to a buyer when their spare room ceiling decided to 'showcase' it's waterfall impression.

we had a really annoying leak for years that no one could identify because it was on a bit of the roof that was hard to access and it would only leak in some storms depending upon the direction of the rain but someone finally managed to fix it a few months ago. it cost a fortune because it was on a steep part so the guy said he'd have to hire a cherry picker to hoist him up. but it worked, thankfully.

estela (and Nath for the yearning for the DRY) utterly and irrevocably on.the.money. We bought our house five years ago and within 6 months found out that during any period of sustained rainfall, eventually, we'd get water dripping in above a window in the sitting room. Three years and four roofers later it got fixed: a mere smear of mortar into a join at the top where the roof meets the bricks kept the water out. So, having thought the place was no longer a Mancunian incarnation of Dark Water the discovery of this this recent ingress is such a hart braker.

Seriously, fuck unwanted water coming into yr house anywhere.

Seriously, fuck unwanted water coming into yr house anywhere.

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I am knocking on wood right now, wood that I hope remains dry.

With the heavy rain we've had that jim mentioned, I've been lucky not to have leaky roof, but the gutter over the back door backs up and overflows eventually if its a heavy downpour (I must check the downpipe). Which leads to a lovely cascading waterfall half a foot from the sliding back door. Itd splosh everywere and make a mess, but now I've got it beat - I put out every bucket I own, they filled to the brim, and now i have tons of water for my garden :D

does it fall down the wall? be careful of damp creeping in there

Bloody hell, Bill, that's awful. Good luck is all I can say.

Nathalie, thanks, my leak is just a gentle drip rather than a big splash, but it's obviously hugely annoying, not least because the noise keeps me awake at night. My landlady's repair bloke is on the case. Hopefully it's just a simple matter of a "smear of mortar".

But yes, indeed - fuck unwanted water in your house.

I am so goddamn sick of shoddy roof repair work. 30 mph gusts and there go the shingles again.