Thread: Rain!!!!

It's comming down again.....and getting worse

absolutely fantastic rain- loving it.
except for the poor office I had to try to rescue this afternoon.

This office has been a massive total refit that we have worked on for the last 6 month or so. Lotsa-lotsa dollars spent.
It was just finished- looking lovely, clients happily installed- then the rain of the last few days started to pour through the ceiling in a couple of spots

I should at this point say that the ceiling and the plumbing were totally the landlords responsibility
so, in the second job of the day, after battling rush hour traffic to get out there (before we all disapear for a few weeks break) we start ripping open the ceiling to see what is going on.

The rooftop is about half the size of a small footy field- the downpipe plumbping about the girth of watermellons...
so, looking up and one of the flood points we notice (hard not to) that the first plumbed join to the roof well thing is TOTALLY unsealed- as in you could stick a finger and a half in the gap all around- light shining clearly through. Not to mention the bottom of the metal roof well thing was just riveting in place, with no sealant, light shining through 5mm gaps...

so as the next front started to pour down we just did what we could, lotsof gaffa tape, heaps of black plastic funneling, wheely bins, anything else that could hold water... etc...
did what we could and got the F out of there.

Poor Poor clients. There appears to be a decent rather decent law suit in the wind-
gladly none of our responsibility... just more work to do fixing up after the new year.

and as I finish typing it seems the last of the front has just passed- wonder if those wheely bins overflowed

Hans.

Front just arriving in the ACT

We're finally getting some too! We've all been outside dancing about on the crunchy remains of the lawn.

fantastic christmas pressie Shedgirl!!!
Have a happy one

Astrid

Weird weather, it sounded like half of SA and Vicc has blown away or near washed away over the last couple of days and I was out in my little boat on dead calm sea with not a breathe of wind... we got a couple of mm of rain later but still no wind at all till today. I was hoping to fill my tank for christmas as my kids will be home for a bit and they have "city" showers if I don't watch 'em!

Originally Posted by Christopha

Weird weather, it sounded like half of SA and Vicc has blown away or near washed away over the last couple of days and I was out in my little boat on dead calm sea with not a breathe of wind... we got a couple of mm of rain later but still no wind at all till today. I was hoping to fill my tank for christmas as my kids will be home for a bit and they have "city" showers if I don't watch 'em!

Geez Christopha, that's rough. We drove from Bendigo to Adelaide yesterday and all the way from Horsham to Tailem Bend it bucketed, sometimes so hard we had to slow down to 80! Beachport isn't too far away from that road.

Send some of it up this way, we need it badly, Dams are down to 20% and still no sign of rain over the dam areas. Level 6 water restrictions in force.

Originally Posted by munruben

Send some of it up this way, we need it badly, Dams are down to 20% and still no sign of rain over the dam areas. Level 6 water restrictions in force.

You can have all the rain that ended up in No 1 sons bedroom last night ... Gutters overflowed and came down the walls.. 11o'clock last night we were empying his room and trying to find a place for him to sleep

Looks like it all turned out ok. The wall doesnt sem to have stained and all we got was wet carpet and a wet mattress, but not fun....

And a clean room.

Hope all who need it are getting it

Just think of all those tree's down if you have chainsaw and trailers be a good Aussie and help clean up

Western Sydney as per overcast muggy as being in a steam bath.

To those with damage hope all is well and fixed soon

Its happened in the past and will again just be thankful its not raging fires

Blame me.... I got back to Australia and the southern region started getting rain 'cause old Mother Nature knows how much I like it....

wonderful to see the once dying trees are already putting out new growth.

Originally Posted by Clinton1

Blame me.... I got back to Australia and the southern region started getting rain 'cause old Mother Nature knows how much I like it....

wonderful to see the once dying trees are already putting out new growth.

Welcome back Clinton

Originally Posted by Clinton1

Blame me.... I got back to Australia and the southern region started getting rain 'cause old Mother Nature knows how much I like it....

Got a pic of you in that suit yet??
Welcome back