miðvikudagur, 30. apríl 2014
fimmtudagur, 24. apríl 2014
fimmtudagur, 17. apríl 2014
"We're taking on water!!!"
"We're taking on water" is a routine operation on a steam locomotive....on a ship the phrase can have a much different "intensity." In a house, well it's a precursor to a long night of scrambling to keep everything that isn't yet wet dry, cleaning up the water, pitching the unsalvagable, and then figuring out where the water came from in the first place.
We've been in this house almost six years and through some heavy rain storms, hurricanes, and the like we've never had a drop - not even a puddle - of water in the basement....it had gotten to the point where I turn on the sump pump every month or so just to make sure it's still there.
Last night I went into the utility room to start setting up my new "toys" when I heard a "Squish" as I walked across the floor. Looking down I could see a large section of the floor was wet. I have two shelves in that room where I store some of Christine's blank artists canvases - and my stash of unbuilt resin car kits. The stuff on the top shelf was soaked. The instant I noticed this I heard a yell from the powder room directly above where I was standing "Honey, the floor is soaked!"
I really don't know what the source of the water is, or was, although I suspect it's the supply line into the toilet or sink in that bathroom. I've turned the water off to both of them and will investigate further this afternoon.
Damage to the unbuilt kits could have been much, much worse. I wasn't concerned about the resin parts, since they're pretty immune to water. Decals, on the hand, are another matter.
Some of them are unsalvagable, the rest are sitting away from the soaked kit boxes and (hopefully) will dry out and still be usable.
What a mess.
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We've been in this house almost six years and through some heavy rain storms, hurricanes, and the like we've never had a drop - not even a puddle - of water in the basement....it had gotten to the point where I turn on the sump pump every month or so just to make sure it's still there.
Last night I went into the utility room to start setting up my new "toys" when I heard a "Squish" as I walked across the floor. Looking down I could see a large section of the floor was wet. I have two shelves in that room where I store some of Christine's blank artists canvases - and my stash of unbuilt resin car kits. The stuff on the top shelf was soaked. The instant I noticed this I heard a yell from the powder room directly above where I was standing "Honey, the floor is soaked!"
I really don't know what the source of the water is, or was, although I suspect it's the supply line into the toilet or sink in that bathroom. I've turned the water off to both of them and will investigate further this afternoon.
Damage to the unbuilt kits could have been much, much worse. I wasn't concerned about the resin parts, since they're pretty immune to water. Decals, on the hand, are another matter.
Some of them are unsalvagable, the rest are sitting away from the soaked kit boxes and (hopefully) will dry out and still be usable.
What a mess.
miðvikudagur, 16. apríl 2014
föstudagur, 11. apríl 2014
CV Freight house - Waterbury, VT
John Hajnosz made a comment on the last Wordless Wednesday asking if the coal dealer in Randolph was still standing. As far as I can tell it still is.
I was paging through Google maps today looking for some street views for the towns I'm modeling on the layout. I sawWaterbury now has a street view so I "walk" over the station, and pan to where the CV Freight house is...
or was.
Obviously from the foliage on the trees, this was taken sometime last summer.
No matter that this is "yesterday's news" - the lesson remains clear - get those pictures now as tomorrow that pet structure may well look like this.
http://goo.gl/maps/90uE3
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I was paging through Google maps today looking for some street views for the towns I'm modeling on the layout. I sawWaterbury now has a street view so I "walk" over the station, and pan to where the CV Freight house is...
or was.
Obviously from the foliage on the trees, this was taken sometime last summer.
No matter that this is "yesterday's news" - the lesson remains clear - get those pictures now as tomorrow that pet structure may well look like this.
http://goo.gl/maps/90uE3
miðvikudagur, 9. apríl 2014
miðvikudagur, 2. apríl 2014
Wordless Wednesday #41 - Prototype inspiration for 'Williams Creek' scene on my layout
Photo courtesy Bob's Photos
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