I forgot to mention something in my last post!
Since I got caught in the rain while topping up the cat kibble outside, I was soon back in the old kitchen, replacing the container onto the kibble bin.
Which is when I started hearing something I should NOT have been hearing!
There was water leaking from the wood stove chimney!
This had happened before, earlier this year, but that was just a drip. Nothing like what’s in the video!
Last time, I let my brother know and someone from the roofing company came out to check it out. He found the roofers hadn’t sealed around the chimney very well, so he applied tar, not just where he found a leak could be getting in, but all around the base of the chimney, at the shingles, and even up the sides, along the seams of the chimney pipe. He even check the chimney cap, to make sure no more leaking.
Yet, here we are!
If you have the sound on, on the video, you can hear the drumming sound from the drips hitting the spare litter pan I set to catch the drips.
When I head outside next, I’ll take a look at the chimney (safely from the ground!) and see if there is any obvious damage. With the sudden and severe winds we got, that wouldn’t surprise me. If there isn’t any obvious damage, someone’s going to have to climb back up there with tar and try and find where the leak got in.
I’m not sure the roofer’s warranty would cover that again!
The Re-Farmer
The Re-Farmer 