It only took me three months and a dozen phone calls, but I got the gutter people to fix their fucked-up gutters! Now the rain from the roof doesn't pour into our porches, or run into our window frames!
But, in order to maintain the level of entropy in our house, the universe broke two bathtub drains, killed a half-dozen of our new shrubs, and caused our dishwasher to start leaking water.
And the floors are still fucked up.
The house is cursed.
(And, my just-out-of-warranty car needs a new set of rings! $1500, just in parts!)
That sucks, especially with a brand new house.
Recent disasters in my house: kitchen sink leaks and there doesn’t appear to be a proper replacement part, so new faucet + installation costs. Same leak went into basement ceiling, so needs to be, at a minimum, sanded and repainted (hopefully no mold). Outside back stairs drain clogged and leaked into basement via door – drain fixed but water continued to enter somehow – so needed to fix that as well. I’ve been ignoring the leaky garage roof.
Ah, the american dream of home ownership.
yuck.
the thought of mold because of water leaks is the kind of thing that keeps me up at nights.