Seriously, honest question. Why are homes made out of wood? A flimsy, degradable material that is so susceptible to the elements, that has pretty definitive expiration conditions. Especially when there’s a world of materials out there that aren’t nearly as vulnerable?
Naturally, with a query like that, it stands to believe that I’ve gone through some sort of negative experience, to which is affirmative. We’ve had some gnarly rain, and at one point, hail, and then suddenly, there are two places in my house that started leaking. A skylight in the sunroom breached at first, leading me to put down some buckets to catch water, and what started as one corner that was leaking eventually turned into three corners, leading to my disgust and aggravation.
Naturally, at the time in which all this occurred, there’s little sense in trying to call anyone since it’s not really an emergency, so I went on with my day, just very annoyed.
And then I heard the dripping; at first, I thought I left my kitchen faucet slightly on, but it turned out that the light fixture above my sink was dripping water. Worse off, there was a bunch of dripping along the window frame in front of the sink, and thinking quickly, I put a bunch of little Tupperware containers to catch the water, since they fit on the sill, but it was unmistakable, that there was a second breach in my house.
Long story short, I tracked it down to some angled windows in my master bathroom on the second floor, where moisture was seeping in through either aged seals or rotting wood, and trickling down behind the walls and into my kitchen. Also seeping through some cracks in the tile in the master bathroom itself too. But it was clear to where it was coming from.