Wednesday, June 18, 2025
Friday, June 6, 2025
It's Always About Water!
We have had nothing but water issues with this church. Leaking foundations, leaking roof, leaking water heater, flood door installation, water under the front stairs---you name it, it's gone wrong and it's always to do with water. We fix things and they either don't stay fixed or there's yet another problem that arises somewhere else. This week it's the dehumidifier again. We got a brand new one five years ago, replaced it entirely a few months ago, and now it's leaking yet again. And this isn't a Canadian Tire sort of dehumidifier, mind you, it's a whole-building one that's practically the size of a chest freezer. And of course Hayters, who installed it (twice) has gone out of business. As temperatures rise, humidity soars, and I'm worried about all the books going moldy and the wood floor warping and...
Just once I'd like to fix something and then stop having to pay attention to it. There are days, I admit, that I want to sell everything I own and run screaming into the night.
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We've had a little more time now to figure some things out about this church of ours. Built in 1939, the United Church functioned and ...
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The ground has settled around the areas where we had the foundations excavated and waterproofed, and somehow water is still getting in here ...
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The limestone screening is in, and the wheelbarrow has been lashed down under a tarp. The overflow pipe by the eavestroughs is duly capped. ...