When it snows, it...

This winter, a water-damaged spot on the ceiling of my home office, right above where I sit, grew to about 2 feet in diameter.  At 7am this morning the guy from VT Energy Contracting and Supply came to look at it.  Sarahmac and I thought it was a leak in the heating system -- we have baseboard heating; the furnace is in the garage, and the pipes run from the garage through the crawlspace.

So, after cutting a hole in the ceiling and pulling out a load of soggy blown-in insulation, we determined it was, in fact, a leak where the soldering had come off.  They'll be back in 2 weeks to fix it. Until then, we have a bucket on the floor to catch the water-and-antifreeze solution, and I need to reorganize my workspace.

Drip, Drip, Drip

In other news, Sarahmac dropped off the car for 120k service and to look at the coolant system because the check temperature gauge had come on (again).  They told her not to bother having anything on the car fixed because the car frame is rusted so badly that it would require thousands of dollars of work to get it to pass inspection in October.  They hoisted it up so she could take pictures of it.

 

 

So it's time to start seriously sitting in cars, like I said I was going to over 2 months ago.  (been busy)

At least our beloved Jetta gave us 6 months notice, so we hopefully won't be rushed.

Finally, CCTA changed their schedules just 2 weeks ago, so Sarahmac missed the bus to go pick up Finn (we're a 1-car family), so I biked.  When I left the house, it was a very light rain, which turned to a wet snow.  Someone was having fun this April Fool's day.

This is all the fault of our 70's bathroom, which we finally decided to remodel. When we first started seriously spec'ing out the project, Sarahmac opined that as soon as we'd chosen a contractor, the car would break down and the house would fall apart.  We don't have a final plan signed, but we essentially chose a contractor last week.