Most of you know that I was undertaking extensions at my place putting on a new room. This was supposedly finished last Friday with the builder rushing the job towards the end like he wanted to get out as fast as he could.
Well, as anyone in Sydney would know, we had a but-load of rain all day (I bet you can see where this is going) and the first thing I did this morning was call the wife when I got to work and asked her how the new drainage system was holding up. She said there were a 'few drips' in our enclosed BBQ area but nothing major.
When I got home, I went out the back to check and sure enough there was a pool of water dripping from the side of the house and under the eaves. You could even see the damp spot on the eaves meaning that water was under the roof and near the electrical cabling.
I called the builder as I noticed one gutter was completely blocked off by a metal plate causing it to over-flow into the roof. He said to me that the water should be flowing the other way towards the opposite downpipe even though our roof is tilted in the other direction! I calmly explained this to him and the fact that he chopped off the gutter which now had no where to run and he replied with "what would you like me to do?"
To cut a long story short, I was up on a flat metal roof in the dark and pouring rain all night tonight drilling holes in the gutters and eaves to release the pressure to avoid the internal ceiling from getting water damage and potentially collapsing
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