Okay I am clutching at straws here.....
The remnants of Gustav rolled through the Chicago area yesterday and it dumped a whole days worth of rain on us. I got home to discover water running down my wall in our master bedroom which was coming through where the window trim was nailed into the wall. Window problem letting water in, eh?
I'm not so sure, and perhaps this is a long shot but here's my theory. I initially thought window but I can not determine how it would be leaking and letting the water in as the window was really not that wet - most of the rain was falling straight down. But, my satellite disk is mounted into the roof directly - and I mean directly - above this area.
At the end of July we had major storms roll through our area; a tornado touch down within two miles of us, and some houses in our subdivision has roof/siding damage from wind sheer. At the time I looked over our house (from the ground level) and it looked fine. But this is the first serious amount of rain we had since that storm and now I have water in my house.
I'm wondering if my dish mounts were damage in the July storms and now water is getting in through the roof where the dish mounts, pooling up at the top of the exterior wall and is trickling down the inside of our drywall. Then were it finds the nails of the window trim, it is coming through to the inside of our room.
The problem is that my reception is great indicating that the dish has not moved, so it is possible my mounts (into the roof) got damaged in the July storms but the dish resettled and continued to work. Then yesterday, the windy morning and all the rain, was the last straw for the mounts and they gave up and let water in?
I've got to get someone out to determine the cause, but is my theory realistic or half baked?
The remnants of Gustav rolled through the Chicago area yesterday and it dumped a whole days worth of rain on us. I got home to discover water running down my wall in our master bedroom which was coming through where the window trim was nailed into the wall. Window problem letting water in, eh?
I'm not so sure, and perhaps this is a long shot but here's my theory. I initially thought window but I can not determine how it would be leaking and letting the water in as the window was really not that wet - most of the rain was falling straight down. But, my satellite disk is mounted into the roof directly - and I mean directly - above this area.
At the end of July we had major storms roll through our area; a tornado touch down within two miles of us, and some houses in our subdivision has roof/siding damage from wind sheer. At the time I looked over our house (from the ground level) and it looked fine. But this is the first serious amount of rain we had since that storm and now I have water in my house.
I'm wondering if my dish mounts were damage in the July storms and now water is getting in through the roof where the dish mounts, pooling up at the top of the exterior wall and is trickling down the inside of our drywall. Then were it finds the nails of the window trim, it is coming through to the inside of our room.
The problem is that my reception is great indicating that the dish has not moved, so it is possible my mounts (into the roof) got damaged in the July storms but the dish resettled and continued to work. Then yesterday, the windy morning and all the rain, was the last straw for the mounts and they gave up and let water in?
I've got to get someone out to determine the cause, but is my theory realistic or half baked?
