Batesmotel Posted December 17, 2021 Share Posted December 17, 2021 So I’ve been up working since 0400. Clearing snow and baking bread all day. We had a major snow storm. Lots to clear and well over a foot of new on the roof. I need to be at the airport in a few hours to pick my son up. I’m tired. I decide to take a nap. I just nod off when my wife says. DO YOU HEAR WATER DRIPPING? I’m wide awake now! Yes water was dripping. OUTSIDE. From the upper part on the roof to the lower part of the roof. I’m so glad she has the sense to tell me because it is better to catch a leak fast. But no getting back to sleep now. 7 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
MO Fugga Posted December 17, 2021 Share Posted December 17, 2021 That blows. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
LostinTexas Posted December 17, 2021 Share Posted December 17, 2021 LOL we have had our bouts with water the past couple of weeks. A leak in the wall requiring a plumber, on Saturday. Yea, that didn't happen. Wife went gabbing about a week ago about all the contents of the guest bath vanity being wet. Yep drain pipe cracked. At least it was in a location I could fix it. Took longer to get to Lowes to buy the part. Baking tomorrow for me. Cheers. 3 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Walt Longmire Posted December 17, 2021 Share Posted December 17, 2021 I had the guy from across the road beat on my door a couple years ago. When I answered, he yells, "Dude, your roof is on FIRE." Well, it wasn't my roof on fire, but I did have a pretty obvious chimney fire going on. 3 1 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
janice6 Posted December 17, 2021 Share Posted December 17, 2021 7 minutes ago, Walt Longmire said: I had the guy from across the road beat on my door a couple years ago. When I answered, he yells, "Dude, your roof is on FIRE." Well, it wasn't my roof on fire, but I did have a pretty obvious chimney fire going on. As a kid my job (my father told me it was my job) was to keep the stoker in the basement filled with coal for a second apartment house of ours across the street. As a kid I wasn't very reliable................. A few times the stoker ran out of coal, and we had a chimney fire. It sounded like a jet plane in the chimney. The fire department would stand by to see if it burned itself out or if the apartment house caught fire. Luckily for me the chimney always burned itself out. Sometimes, in my ire of having to fill the stoker when I felt I had something more important to do, I would pull out the glowing white-hot clinkers and pee on them in frustration. God Almighty that was a horrid smell. I would like you all to know that I'm much better now............ Reportedly........ 3 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Huaco Kid Posted December 17, 2021 Share Posted December 17, 2021 At a previous house, the neighbor (who we really didn't get along with) knocked on the door, and just casually said, "Did you know your backyard is on fire?" Uhhhhh... no. The leaf pile, on the other side of the fence was blazing away. (Another neighbor later told us that they had seen the 1st neighbor's daughter and friends smoking back there.) Suburbia! 2 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
LostinTexas Posted December 17, 2021 Share Posted December 17, 2021 23 minutes ago, Walt Longmire said: I had the guy from across the road beat on my door a couple years ago. When I answered, he yells, "Dude, your roof is on FIRE." Well, it wasn't my roof on fire, but I did have a pretty obvious chimney fire going on. You were going to have a roof on fire soon enough. Good thing the neighbor was paying attention. I've only seen three of them. Put two out pretty quick, the third looked more like a roman Candle going off. Fire balls shooting 20+ feet from the chimney. We thought that one was gone, and the chimney was, but it was extinguishable. My question is all three sounded like afterburners inside the house with the air draw. How did you miss that or did it not do it? 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Walt Longmire Posted December 17, 2021 Share Posted December 17, 2021 6 minutes ago, LostinTexas said: You were going to have a roof on fire soon enough. Good thing the neighbor was paying attention. I've only seen three of them. Put two out pretty quick, the third looked more like a roman Candle going off. Fire balls shooting 20+ feet from the chimney. We thought that one was gone, and the chimney was, but it was extinguishable. My question is all three sounded like afterburners inside the house with the air draw. How did you miss that or did it not do it? I can usually tell when I have them and use the damper to control just how fast and hot they burn. It is confined to the top few feet of the chimney above the ceiling where the chimney is cooler and the creosote builds up. Once in a while one will happen when I'm not aware and I see the result of creosote chunks in the snow on the roof or in the snow on the deck. It is just the deposits in the rain cap mostly burning up. I do clean my chimney, but depending on the wood one is burning, it may need cleaned more often. I'm getting better at it. 3 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
LostinTexas Posted December 17, 2021 Share Posted December 17, 2021 34 minutes ago, Walt Longmire said: I can usually tell when I have them and use the damper to control just how fast and hot they burn. It is confined to the top few feet of the chimney above the ceiling where the chimney is cooler and the creosote builds up. Once in a while one will happen when I'm not aware and I see the result of creosote chunks in the snow on the roof or in the snow on the deck. It is just the deposits in the rain cap mostly burning up. I do clean my chimney, but depending on the wood one is burning, it may need cleaned more often. I'm getting better at it. Yea, evergreen doesn't take long to soot up. When we would elk hunt, we cleaned the stacks every few days. I was always amazed how much built up. Especially after being raised how we were here. Hardwood only went in the fireplace. Anyone caught stuffing anything else in there was in for a chastising. Not much for hardwood in a lot of the country, especially when you have to use dead fall. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Walt Longmire Posted December 17, 2021 Share Posted December 17, 2021 13 hours ago, LostinTexas said: Yea, evergreen doesn't take long to soot up. When we would elk hunt, we cleaned the stacks every few days. I was always amazed how much built up. Especially after being raised how we were here. Hardwood only went in the fireplace. Anyone caught stuffing anything else in there was in for a chastising. Not much for hardwood in a lot of the country, especially when you have to use dead fall. We are burning spruce and birch here. Mostly spruce in my case. It's bone dry. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Valmet Posted December 18, 2021 Share Posted December 18, 2021 I honestly have occasional nightmares about water leaks and water damage... 2 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
MO Fugga Posted December 18, 2021 Share Posted December 18, 2021 HAAAYYYY! I'm your new neighbor! You did say 5 words.... keep it going. 3 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Batesmotel Posted December 18, 2021 Author Share Posted December 18, 2021 She Has A Bravia TV. 3 3 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
railfancwb Posted December 18, 2021 Share Posted December 18, 2021 You said WHAT? To WHO? 1 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Batesmotel Posted December 18, 2021 Author Share Posted December 18, 2021 Came in a cardboard box. 2 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Peng Posted December 20, 2021 Share Posted December 20, 2021 Justin's gone Come over -Kate 1 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Silentpoet Posted December 20, 2021 Share Posted December 20, 2021 My husband just got home. 1 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
janice6 Posted December 21, 2021 Share Posted December 21, 2021 On 12/17/2021 at 8:55 PM, railfancwb said: You said WHAT? To WHO? I do hear this a lot! 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
MO Fugga Posted December 21, 2021 Share Posted December 21, 2021 On 12/17/2021 at 9:37 PM, Batesmotel said: Came in a cardboard box. It's just a ******* condo.... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
MO Fugga Posted December 21, 2021 Share Posted December 21, 2021 20 hours ago, Silentpoet said: My husband just got home. Bangbangbangbangstab. 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Batesmotel Posted December 21, 2021 Author Share Posted December 21, 2021 1 hour ago, MO Fugga said: It's just a ******* condo.... It’s a Les Baer Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Batesmotel Posted December 21, 2021 Author Share Posted December 21, 2021 Did the cat just puke? 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Batesmotel Posted December 21, 2021 Author Share Posted December 21, 2021 Why is the stick blue? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
gwalchmai Posted December 21, 2021 Share Posted December 21, 2021 "The Flying Monkeys Are Up" So this morning, at 5, Ginger scrunched under the covers and snuggled up to my leg. Mary Ann then proceeded to attack Ginger through the covers. Madly. Mrs. G said "Remember yesterday when I got up and fed the kittens and let you go back to sleep?" I said "Yeah, I guess it's my day". So I got up and took the girls to the pantry and fed them, made some coffee, and logged on here. The girls ate their breakfast, and Katy's breakfast, and then galloped back to the bedroom and got into bed with Mrs. G. 3 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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