What you're seeing here is a 4x4 area of my garage ceiling that came crashing down at 5:00am yesterday. You may notice the water marks. Seems a fiesty sprinkler lost its head on the outside of the garage. It shot water straight up through the eave of the house and filled the attic over the garage with water. Drywall is called drywall for a reason. It is meant to stay DRY!!! Luckily the falling debris missed my car by inches.
Not too big of a deal. Scoop up some insulation and drywall. Cover the hole in the ceiling with cardboard, and wait for Stretch to come home in 6 months!
But you all know that my life is not so simple. By the time I got home from work in the afternoon, my darling little 4x4 hole had become..........
About 2 12x12 sections of ceiling are now on the garage floor. Well, not now now. Now, they are in the back of the truck waiting to be taken to the dump. This was certainly not an enjoyable task, but a surprisingly quick clean-up. Snow shovels are quite handy, even in the summer!I do appreciate any sympathy that may be coming my way right now. But don't feel too badly for me. There are multiple silver linings around that gigantic hole in my ceiling. 1) No vehicles were harmed in the making of this hole. 2) The water was only from a sprinkler and not something more difficult to fix. 3) The water only filled the attic over the garage, not the house. I would not be so quick to find silver linings if this had happened over my living room or kitchen. 4) I have been meaning to clean up the mess of stuff on that side of the garage; this just forced my hand and now it's done. 5) I get to use the cool hammer-stapler we got for stapling up insulation! It's super awesome....you just slam it into the wall. 6) When I went to load these photos, I found this pic of Ella in a dress. The things my children do when I'm not watching!
See, silver linings even in the soggiest of messes.
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