Not again

[pegkerr]

Today (well, yesterday, technically, but I haven't gone to bed yet) was already a really bad day.

Now there is water coming out of the ceiling of the kitchen, dripping from the overhead light fixture. Is it from the bathtub? (I'd just finished taking a bath). Rob pulled the back panel out in the bathroom and doesn't think it is anything in back or underneath the tub. Or is an ice dam formed on the roof?

Comments

Sorry about your leak

[one-undone.livejournal.com]

We once had water come from the light fixture; the bathtub had overflowed upstairs.

What is an ice dam? We don't get ice on the roof down here in the South.

Re: Sorry about your leak

[jbru.livejournal.com]

As snow on one's roof melts, the water flows to the edge, naturally enough. It is colder out on the eaves and so the water freezes; this is the same kind of thing that generates icicles. If the process continues long enough, the accumulated ice acts like a dam (hence the name) and the water backs up under one's shingles and through the roof, causing havoc.