Water Problems Continue

Water Problems Continue

I took my mattress up to the sun deck today and let it dry out. I had to carry it down the hall, through the engineering area and the up two flights of stairs. It was worth it however. It was nice and dry.

I decided to gut the room of carpet today so I cut it off where it met the bed. I left the part under the bed. I did however remove everything from under the bed. It was truly disgusting. My roommate had cloths down there that I’m sure had been there dirty for months. I tired of the situation so I just piled all his crap on his bed for him to sort out. I then removed the carpet and put in some fresh padding. I don’t have any carpet yet so its just padding for now.

During the cleanup I discovered that the missing ceiling panel was behind the door. They had used a pillow case taped to the ceiling because they were too lazy to fix it correctly and maybe they couldn’t find the panel behind all the crap. Any, I cut the panel to fit and the ceiling is back together. The panel was steal so cutting it was fun.

I also removed the ceiling vent cover because it was really rusty. I scraped it down and painted it. I reinstalled it only to find water dripping from it a little later. After further investigation I determined that the flue pipe feeding the air conditioner sweats from the floor, through the closet and up into the ceiling. I asked the captain about getting it fixed and one of the people suggested I turn off the AC when I’m not in the room. I’m trying that now. If this doesn’t resolve the water issues, I’m going to reconsider this enter adventure. I can put up with a lot of stuff but wet clothes and moldy carpet is more than I can take.

Work was much easier today. I just worked on my room and did on jobs off and on. It rained in the afternoon so that put a stop to a lot of the work. We are suppose to cruise to Belize next week but I’m not sure if we’ll be ready or not. I really hope we get under way so we don’t have to sit here another week and work on this boat.