Saturday Work

I spent about two hours working this morning, even though it is Saturday. When I finished replacing the broken toilet bolts yesterday, I realized that the Fluidmaster valve in the toilet wasn't working properly. It was getting late and I like to be home for the close of the stock market, so I decided to change the Fluidmaster valve today. So, after taking my new tenant's rent and security deposit to the bank, I stopped at Lowes to pick up a new valve. The valve only took about 10 minutes to install.

My next mission was to look at the two roofs that were reported to be leaking. These leaks have both been very difficult to find. I looked at the leaks about a week ago during a very heavy rain and neither were leaking. I asked the tenants to call me if the leaks occurred again. Both of the tenants called me this morning.

The first roof was leaking through an old stove pipe that a previous owner had apparently cut off inside the living room ceiling (no wonder I couldn't find it). The top of the stove pipe still sticks through the roof, so I just need to remove the stove pipe from the roof and patch the resulting hole.

The second roof turned out to be a metal roof that had a small rusted spot where there apparently had been a small patch. That should be easy to fix also.

The very good news is that I finally was able to discover where these intermittent leaks have been coming from!

That was it for this morning and I made it home just in time for the Ohio State Game. Go Bucks!