Sunday 19 March 2023

After struggling with tradies in Didim to stop a leak behind aft shower panel that required replacing thusly rotted wood (then finally fixing it myself) returned from Florida to discover brown water on shower floor. Oh shucks... or significantly stronger words to that effect. To Jan's delighted regard, removed enormous amounts of her crap wedged into a cabinet to access water connections that resulted in discovering no leaks. However, below support structure/seat, found gap where replacement panel was not sealed. Ergo, he said hopefully, every shower may allow water incursion between panels that eventually finds its way onto the floor. Water system leak was further gainsaid (don't use that one much any more) because water had not accumulated in shower sump over three months. Might have noodled out this evidence before triggering Jannie Jammer's impulse to murder me... still here, helps to be adorable.

- Later

Put tape over above mentioned gap during showers to prevent further water incursion and now, a day or so later, have noticed dramatically tapered seepage. Will leave gap open for drying, then eventually seal with Sikaflex. One problem presumably solved, only a hundred or so to go.

This points out a common problem with fixing nearly anything. In the process two additional faults are usually discovered that must be addressed before putting everything back that had to be removed for the original issue. These follow-ons often take longer than the first thing. Current philosophy is to procrastinate any repairs until nuisance exceeds three times one's estimate of aggravation to fix. Not that this actually helps much as even conservative repair guesses for effort required (time and cost) are virtually always significantly low. This is an incurable psychological affliction.

Jack & Jan