Recently I was out in the field with my producer, Mark Wilder. We were getting ready to shoot another video on doing repairs in the field, and I thought this would be a good series for us to discuss by means of some of the pictures taken at that session. (I’ll use the same PATCH system format I did last month, which gives us five areas to look at: Problem, Approach, Time, Cost and How.)
Picture #1 shows Mark and me standing on the landing overlooking the staircase. The first step in any project is to figure out what the problem is. This one threw us a curve. There was a bulge hanging down in the center of this ceiling. There is an attic above and no signs of water damage between the bulge and the window. I look for this, as sometimes water can run across a ceiling, or at times it can follow a beam or piece of wood and then drop down onto another part of the ceiling. In this case, however, it was different. I was anxious to open the ceiling up and find out what exactly was causing this bulging affect.