Tonight I go out into California room to brush my cats & ready them for bed and notice that my socks are damp. Panic aets in...ROOF leak? left one of the 13 windows open....I get the flashlight and the carpet at least a 2 x 4 piece is REALLY wet! WTF!!!! so I get the flashlight and unlock the front door to go onto the front porch and that carpet is SOAKED..I mean wet...none of the furniture is that wet, so its not coming from the roof....so back into the CALIFORNIA room...aha!
There is a door from the front porch that goes into the California room. It has been blocked off for years, infact I had a pretty thick piece of wood screwed to the inside of the door in the Califoernia room, just in case of a break in. So when I looked at it, I noticed that about 2 inches from the bottom is wet....so evidently the water came from the front porch via that door into the california room.
I have my DE-HUMIDIFER set up out there now & I put tarps along the bottom of the door on the front porch. I will get some sand bags tomorrow morning, so it drys everything out.
Any ideas on how to stop this from ever happening again? some kind of strip I can put on the outside? I do not care how it looks cosmetically, I am just PO'd that I didn't notice before the carpet in the CA room was soaked...plus its freaking out my cats. Surely theres some kind of stripping, or weather proofing. There is NO way I am replacing a door, I never have used or ever intend to use..if I had my way I would seal the whole thing up. thanks for any help!
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