It’s another season of rain here in the Central Valley and with it comes high winds. Our season started much later then it has in the past and I’ve been thankful for that. Last night as I went to bed, I could here the wind beating on our house and patio items protesting to it as it banged around in the backyard. As I closed my eyes, I could see it was past one in the morning on my LED clock. Through the night, I was wakened by the wind playing with our house as if it was a game for the mighty forces of moving air.

This morning I came down and noticed the cats crate had spilt water on in it. I figured the cats had played inside and knocked their water bowl and that was the cause for the drenching. I went over to pick up one of the cat when I felt something ping my head. I looked up and groaned, “Oooooh, man!” A large line about three feet in length with bubbled up paint was on the ceiling. At the top of the line was a beading head of water. The leak that was fixed last winter that had plagued us for three years was back. Ugh.

Long story short, this leak seems to nail us only when it’s very windy and raining. Regular rain without any wind produces no leak. The home builder has sent out people and things have been done to correct it. Every year when it’s fixed, we do not get another windy storm to check if in fact it was fixed. In essence, the next test is a year later. We failed our test.

So off to calling the builder again and I hope and pray this time they do get it fixed because I really don’t want to sell this house to someone with a leaky roof. What a drag…

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