Well, we have a room in our basement that the previous owner (and fancy writing of the realtor) referred to as a “Wine Cellar”. Really its a room that stays cold.
Hubby figured out that a slight musty smell was coming from the room and so he sealed it off temporarily with a huge tarp and duct tape until they had time to check it out and fix whatever was wrong.
So, I came in late on the situation but basically Hubby tore apart all of the shelving in the room, and took down all the styrofoam sheets they had GLUED to the ceiling and discovered that areas behind the shelving had not been sealed properly and water had seeped in.
Hubby called in reinforcements and he and his Father went to work on sealing the ceiling of the “Room that stays cold”. It was time to get down to business.
It looks like this is going to be pretty serious.
I was upstairs “un-packing”
So after whatever that was they used some baby poop…. errr…. drylock concrete stuff to seal the gap between the walls and the ceiling.
They kept scraping and pasting and scraping and pasting the goop into the gaps.
It was a very long process – I should I know I was upstairs “un-packing” like I said.
So needless to say they were breathing in fumes and I think a little delirious from that and all the effort. All I wanted was one picture of Father and Son working together in matching blue latex gloves. Mixed in between hysterical laughter, this is however what I got:
Phew! It was hard work. Like I said before, I should know I was “un-packing” that whole time.
Finally Hubby stopped the torture and let his father go home and we went to bed. The next day after work Hubby came home and used “KILLZ” and “DryLock” to seal the room up the rest of the way. That stuff was really stinky!
And now we have a nicely sealed-mostly clean- “Room that stays cold”.
i wish you’d build wine-racks now and have a real wine cellar. that’d be hott. i mean cool.
Put a foam mattress in there and I will move in.