How's The Weather Out There...

[sheepherder]

Originally Posted by alvin

Heard one theory saying the Earth might be entering a new ice age now.

Really?!? I think I've read that on some forum too...

I spent about 3 - 4 hours today up in my attic under the roof, where it joins the walls...My roof is not equally sloped F&R...The front is a much steeper pitch - I can't even stand up on it...The rear is almost flat...And of course I had to get down on my stomach and crawl back under the eves of the flat part...About a half dozen times. Just enough room to lay flat and squirm around. I found the source of my bathroom rainstorm...A blocked bathroom ceiling fan vent hose...The snow was blowing in the outside peckerhead and then melting and running down into the bathroom. I filled the 4" conduit with some spray-on expanding foam-in-a-can and clamped a neopreme cap over the end. That should hold it from getting snow/ice in until Spring. I threw the vent hose away, pulled the electrical wires out of the ceiling fan/light, and gave the fan fixture conduit end a shot of foam as well. I hope that keeps the bathroom heat from going up into the attic..

It was 16º outside, not all that cold in the attic. I had a new roof put on in 2010, and they put 4 vents in the roof. It should have been much colder up there, but I seem to be leaking a lot of heat into the attic. WW II house [1942], 2-wire electrical system [no grounds], old ground up paper for insulation. I'm in the process of laying R13 over the paper insulation but I run out of $$$ pretty quick. I'm about half done. Hopefully finish it off this year.