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[k31th]

On 02/10/2024 at 4:45 PM, k31th said:

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On 08/07/2024 at 11:18 AM, k31th said:

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On 08/07/2024 at 3:37 PM, Puffwagon said:

Now go and buy a high pressure washer to clean your driveway 

On 08/07/2024 at 3:53 PM, k31th said:

haha Indeed... it does need a clean... 

Turns out the missus had bought me a karcher "K3 HR Car & Deck" ages ago, as a birthday gift, but I never bothered to set it up at the old rental but out it came (from the box) for the new house  

 

Took ages, but here's a direct example of the difference the "cleaning" made (mostly just focusing the high pressure water onto tiny spots haha)... got it done before the housewarming (~17th Aug 2024), but took this photo moments ago:

 

It took most of two days to get the cleaning properly done around the back sections of the house  

[Puffwagon]

M'shed is being delivered tomorrow and installed next week. Yay 

[k31th]

hell yeah!  

[k31th]

On 22/12/2024 at 11:05 PM, k31th said:

good news; it did rain plenty and would have leaked if there was one... crawled up into the ceiling around where there are problematic areas on the tiling and there's no leak  yay... will clean up those "problem" areas at a later stage.

 

and the aforementioned handiwork with the ratchet strap "fix". That "blue" rope tie thingo you can see I attempted to re-tie it but it didn't do the job well enough, so the ratchet strap gets involved... that drip-tray thingo that the white piping is connected to is meant to catch and then drain the drips/condensation from the air-con out to the guttering, but it had bent downwards (see the "v-shaped bit in the metal") and it had dropped down and was the new "low point" for the drips and it also allowed water to "drip" slowly through and that and "wet" the insulation and eventually got wet enough that the water made it through to the plasterboard of the ceiling and created wetting/cracking problems... annoying. 

That video is from earlier on a hot humid night where it wasn't raining so all of that "water" is from the A/C itself...

 

And the fix:


Now I have to repair the damaged ceiling plaster... fun. Might pay for a tradie to do that  

So... this came back to get worse... my "fix" with the ratchet strap meant the water didn't properly get to the drain anymore and too much of it ended up further back... oops, should have run a water-flow test... The water tray got very heavy with A/C dripped water and leaked from a different spot further back straight through the metal again (to the right of that pic/vid above)... annoying... more plaster damage...

 

but then it got MUCH worse as the entire tray "buckled" and down comes litres of built-up water into the insulation and plaster... and soon enough, the plaster's like "yeah, f**k this, I'm out": 

 

Made a bit of a mess (excuse the blurriness of the photo, as Kelli was in a hurry to clean up the mess to prevent too much damage to the floor as well): 

 

Kelli also had good foresight to put a sheet over the table to catch this bit falling on the table/chairs: 

 

It got a little worse over time: 

 

You can see the beginnings of a tarp we put up to "seal the heat from the roof in the roof" as it was quite a hot night. 

 

Here's my handiwork to attempt to "fix it" properly (while Kelli did most of the cleanup): 

The Red arrow points to where the water was pooling (slightly off frame) and shows the "standard drain bends" in the tray heading toward the drain pipe... The Yellow arrow points towards the only remaining "low" point (and also where the original "leak" came from where the metal buckled a bit along that "wall")  after lowering the ratchet strap and mounting the entire "tray" higher around all edges /corners (confirmed with a bubble level that it should all drain properly now...)... the Orange arrow points towards where the "sealant" had cracked/failed underneath (the yellow-ish looking stuff) the pipe and where I added some more sealant to repair it (the pink-ish coloured bit). 

 

In this one, the Red arrow points towards one of my mounting screws (before the "fix", the tray hung down below the actual body of the A/C unit), the Orange arrow points towards where the metal leaked and buckled and the yellow arrow points to where the plaster/insulation dropped out.

 

This was all late on Thursday night... 

 

Enough damage was done that we had to make a claim on house insurance... fun times

 

Yesterday morning a few people came around to "make it safe" by adding some wood to stabilize it all and to use a de-humidifier & blower to dry the ceiling section over the next few days:

[bossmang]

oopsie keif, unlucky mate horrible feeling and damage. just dont tell the insurance mob you did some handy work to it prior lol

[k31th]

Cheers TRENT.