02 april 2015

Skorsten fjernet/Chimney removed

Så skete det igen - vand ned ved skorsten og et ødelagt loft. Denne gang ikke kun i entreen men nu også bryggerset.
Løsningen med ny inddækning og fugning af skorsten var ikke problemet, men gjorde det bare værre. Ingen håndværkere kunne forstå årsagen til indsivning af vand.
Hvorfor har vi så dårlige håndværkere i Danmark, at man selv skal prøve at finde løsningen? Måske derfor at polske håndværkere bliver brugt. Man kan lige så godt bruge en billigere løsning, når den rigtige alligevel ikke kommer i første hug.
Det helt store mareridt startede allerede inden jul, hvor jeg ikke kunne gå nogen steder, hvis det regnede og det hele var først slut i midten af marts
Det endte med at koste en bondegård alt i alt, men løsningen blev at fjerne skorstenen. Bagefter kom så det store arbejde med ny nedrivning af lofter og genetablering af nye. Det hele varede flere uger, da jeg ind imellem ville have en pause, så jeg kunne tjekke, at der ikke kom mere vand ind. Selve nedrivning af skorsten, flytning af antenne og ny tagbelægning med nye gaspibe tog kun nogle dage men selve loftudskiftningen tog over 1 uge, så det magter jeg bare ikke igen.
Min løsning på sigt bliver salg af huset inden for de næste par år. Nu gider jeg bare ikke mere. Det har været dejligt ikke stille her. Det vil jeg savne, men det nytter ikke, at jeg ikke har tid til andet end hus, have og reparationer/vedligeholdelse. For meget arbejde for en enlig kvinde.

It happened again - water came down from the roof by the chimney and destroyed the ceiling in the hall once more but this time not only in the hall but also in the utility.
The new cover around the chimney and repairing joints did not solve the problem but just seemed to make it worse. No craftmen were able to understand why and how the water came in.
Why do we have such bad craftmen in Denmark that you have to find the solution yourself? Måske that is why Polish craftmen are in demand. Why not use a cheap solution when the right one does not come the first.
Anyway the real nightmare started before Christmas and I was not able to leave the house when it rained and everything was not finished until mid March.
All in all that chimney ended up costing me a fortune but now it is gone and hopefully the problem too.  However after the chimney came down ceilings inside had to be replaced by new ones. The entire issue lasted several weeks because I ordered a pause between fixing the roof and mounting new ceilings to check that the roof was waterproof. Tearing down the chimney, moving the antenna and fixing the roof with new tiles and a pipe for the gas took only a couple of days but replacing ceilings took more than a week and I simply cannot do that again.
My solution for the future is selling the house within a couple of years. I am done. It has been a very silent place to live but too many repairs and too much to maintain for a single woman.

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