Drip...drip...drip...

That's the sound of water dripping onto our kitchen ceiling. In the last 4 months we've had more issues with water than my hubby has had in his 20 years experience of being a home owner.

It started in January when my hubby noticed a water mark on the kitchen ceiling... right beneath the upstairs bathtub. We called a plumber and prepared ourselves for the worse. What if he had to cut a hole in the kitchen ceiling? Fortunately the plumber was able to access the necessary plumbing from my daughter's bedroom closet and fix the seal.

In April, we had the overflowing toilet which created a second water stain on our kitchen ceiling (see this post).

Then there was Tuesday.

A severe thunderstorm come through our area bringing torrential downpours, strong winds and even a tornado. We were out of the house at that time, but when we came home we discovered that a house guest (not our international student) had left her bedroom window open. In a four foot area of her room...everything was soaked. The carpet, the blinds, the walls, the table, the lamp, her clothes, plus lots of other things. Enough water came in through the window to soak through the carpet, the underpad, and flooring to create a third and fourth water mark on our kitchen ceiling...one of them spilling over to include the kitchen wall. My hubby went to the basement to check to see if the water had dripped down onto the basement ceiling. It didn't...but two repaired foundation cracks had leaked creating a big puddle. Fortunately the basement is not finished so nothing besides some cardboard boxes were damaged.

I guess it could be worse. My sister had a pipe burst in her upstairs bathroom toilet. The leaking water caused part of her kitchen ceiling to cave in...spilling toilet water onto her counters, stove and floor and into her cupboards.