Rain Day

It started raining about 3:00 am this morning and continued very lightly until about noon. It is supposed to rain again tonight.

Around 7:00 am I heard some rumbling in the back yard. Knowing that the roofers would not be showing up, due to the rain, I was prepared to wake up Spenser to attack the intruder. I then noticed it was "Our" Mike, retrieving a couple of his ladders chained up in the back yard. I let Spenser sleep. Probably a good thing as Spenser would have attacked me for waking him up.

Mike called about 8:00 am to say that he had been there. I told him I saw him. He also gave me the phone number of Bret, the roofer. Mike asked me to check around to see if there was any leakage on the incomplete roof and, if so, to call Bret. I went up to the attic and found one spot where there were drips. I called Bret and told him I had put a bucket under the leak. Bret said that was what he would have done if he had come out and said he would be here Wednesday morning to review the progress. I will question him on the ridge vent on the main house and on installation of a cupola on the sunroom and garage. "Our" Mike has repeatedly told me that normally cupolas are installed after the roofing is completed. This still sounds weird to me.

Today I called the hot tub manufacturer (Hot Spring) and the US distributor (Coast Products) of the roof fan (Xpelair) I found on-line. After these calls I sent a note to Tyler and Mike summarizing my conversations with: "we are no closer to a resolution on either the capacity of fan we need or how we are going to provide makeup air". Neither company provided definitive guidance on how much ventilation we needed. The Hot Spring person did say she would submit my question to their engineering group and get back with me in a couple of days. There is still hope. I have not heard anything more from my HVAC engineer friend Bob. I guess he has had second thoughts about getting involved.

T looked out on the garage roofing done so far and expressed her satisfaction with the color. She was noting the "hints" and "tones" of this color and how it all worked well together. Whatever!