Isaac's Disappointing Day

Water appeared in the basement two days ago, so yesterday Isaac tracked down the water to fix whatever it was. The project turned out to take him all day long as he traced the leak from the basement up through the wall between the kitchen and our bedroom all the way up to the renter's bathroom upstairs.

He ended up having to take out the ceiling in my closet. (My closet is actually where the stairs to upstairs used to be. A previous owner took them out, made the space into a closet, and put up a ceiling.) On the positive side, Isaac found something like 30 unused cubic feet at the top of my closet between the false ceiling and the upstairs floor. On the negative side, he found the leak while he was up in that crawlspace and the renter turned on her shower. He got wet. He took it very well.

Isaac spent quite a while working in the renter's bathroom last night. There is still quite a bit of work to be done. Here are pictures of him up in the crawl space of my closet, some of the damage, and of the space created by removing the ceiling.