Here's the skinny: I woke up yesterday and got in shower, like I do. I resurfaced to Matt running around looking just a little flustered. Turns out the upstairs toilet had decided to flood on him and the shutoff valve was rusted shut, which meant, that's right, water all over our floor. Conveniently the previous owners thought that carpet was a good decorating decision for a bathroom, so clean up was a little interesting. It involved a lot of paper towels, a large fan, and tearing up said carpet.
Crisis averted, Matt and I go into the bedroom to dress for work. Matt says "Whats that noise" and I said, "It's raining, must be the rain on the windowpane". You can guess where this is going. That's right, water dripping through the ceiling onto our bed! Luckily, we bought a mattress protector when we bought the mattress, so none of the water actually got through to the mattress, but all our sheets were soaked and pandemonium ensued (hence the lack of photos).
So, when we came home, we had our work cut out for us. We didn't want to leave the ceiling all wet, so we pulled everything out of the room and did some demo:
There was an old, shabbily done seam, and since that's where the water came through, that's where we started.
And then we kept going till we got here.
We did find some buried treasure in the form of a past inspection sticker.
And the old pipes are pretty cool, if a little rusty (we are going to have a plumber come by to check them out. I mean, now's the time, right?)
Then, we realized that it had also dripped down some into the closet, so we took that off too
And here's where we finished.
On the bright side, we can fix the bad seaming job, and, as a bonus round, since the ceiling is all torn up we are going to look into putting a light switch in the room (as opposed to what we have now, which is one, and only one, switch in the family room that controls the fan). Both projects we were going to do, just not projects were were planning to do now
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