u/pivazena

We moved in 10 years ago. When we first moved in, after a heavy rain we noticed that water was running off the roof, against and down the chimney, and down the siding.

After a few years, we noticed some rot on the siding. We hired a handyman company, they replaced the siding and installed a cricket. This solved the water runoff issue, and all seemed fine for a bit.

2 years later, I notice in another heavy rain that a wet spot was forming inside our living room, on the wall where it joins the ceiling. It was probably leaking for a while, but it wasn't till then that it actually broke through. It looks like in the cricket repair, somehow a hole was created (or was always there, but not a problem when the water was diverting in the other direction, down the chimney) that allowed water to infiltrate inside. We went through the first roofing company, and after several visits, including reshingling the suspect area and "building the roofline to divert water the other way" (???), the problem wasn't solved.

We went through the second company, who restored the interior of the house, removed the original roofer's attempts, and fixed the leak. BUT, now the water drainage issue returned and water drains off the chimney again. Guy installed a diverter or two, didn't work, and then ghosted us. Husband tried installing an additional diverter, but the chimney drainage issue is still happening.

• Any suggestions for what we can do? Do we install a gutter? Is there a better way to install anything to help with the drainage?
• Our neighbors have the same house design and they don't have this issue.
• I know before we bought the house that the roof was redone (there was a massive hail storm), and there was some suggestion by another neighbor that a tree may have fallen and "hit" the house (not enough to require permitted repair or an insurance claim, beyond roof repair), so I'm wondering if the new roof wasn't pitched right. How would we test that?

Backyard view. Red circles are problematic areas

View from peak of roof, looking down to chimney, you can see the diverters

Standing next to the chimney, the white diverter is what my husband installed and the brown diverter is what 2nd roofer installed

Standing at the base of the chimney looking up, This is the drip from snowmelt. No diverter is installed

Same view during a rainstorm, both diverters installed

Hi all-- I'm submitting this for a former colleague who has been asking me for advice. I'm telling her story below based off of what she told me. I'll try to answer any questions, but basically I'm at a loss with what else to tell her other than "get out of there." Am I off base? I personally work on pharma/biotech side, and I find this situation to be very very unusual. Everybody in the story is US-based.

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She's working on a clinical trial manuscript (agency side). She told me that the client company has an odd structure, where there's a not-CEO who oversees med affairs and commercial, and he is providing direct and pointed feedback on the manuscript content, including directing her agency to not make edits requested by the external authors. From what she told me, it sounds like the company's pubs director had tried to push back, but, since not-CEO is the pubs director's boss's boss, that went nowhere and now pubs director has been sidelined (my colleague is now working on the manuscript directly with the med affairs director, pub director's boss).

They had submitted the manuscript, and it came back with extensive revisions. The not-CEO wants to pull the manuscript and submit elsewhere and make minimal changes to the manuscript, even though peer review feedback was very useful and would make the manuscript stronger.

He doesn't seem to care what the authors want. My friend has been in this field for 5 years, and she's never seen anything like this. She told me that she spoke with her line manager, and the line manager said that as long as the company is taking responsibility, all the agency can do is advise but otherwise they do what the client says.

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My colleague isn't CMPP certified, and neither am I, but this seems completely out of line with ICMJE. What can she do, aside from asking to be reassigned or resigning?

Title describes it. I'm working on the head for a Hobbes amigurumi, and in a moment of inattention, I picked up the work and started on the wrong side, and I guess the lighting was dim enough that I didn't notice the error until after I had completed lots of additional rows.

https://preview.redd.it/3my0v5r97yyg1.jpg?width=3024&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=6a285fca36f0112959ae35cc13f962fc0731af60

I'm making this for a friend and already sent her a picture of the error with an "lol" attached, so she doesn't *care*, but it'd be nice to be able to correct it.

The ideal solution would be, can i cut just the row before or after the error and turn it rightside-out and reconnect it in any way that won't show a scar?