Goodbye Leaky Roof

Shortly after we signed the contract on this house a little over 3 years ago, but before we had actually moved to Bethel, we received a phone call from the the sellers.  There was some stammering and then a confession that a leak that they thought was fixed wasn't.  The culprit, the chimney stove pipe.
After moving in and gathering visual data on the situation, the Kolin realized that the stove pipe had been installed upside down-- a fact that was given away by a large red arrow sticker that said "this end up" and was pointing down.  In a place where repairs and installations are generally not done by professionals, errors like this are are fairly common.  So Kolin figured that the stovepipe was leaking because instead of shedding condensate outwards as it was supposed to, it was instead guiding it inwards, so that when the weather was just right, the
dripping began.  One might think this repair would be easy, just flip the stove pipe, but the fact that the stovepipe was deeply imbedded in a foam roof and a rubber liner, made things frustrating.
The fact that the inside project had to be completed in the upper reaches of a geodesic dome didn't make things any easier.  After contemplating the situation through several drippy springs and falls, a remedy was concocted and the acrobatic repairs were completed.  As in any house in Bethel, there were some surprises along the way.  Kolin found some "recycled" stove pipe imbedded in the roof that was not exactly structurally sound (I think he said he could see through it).  It's all behind now and we are drip free!  Here are some pictures of the festivities.

Kids watching TV.

Stovepipe from the inside.

Finished product