Well, we’ve figured out the problem with the leaking roof. It’s not that the roof itself is actually leaking (except when it rains extremely hard for several days in a row). Instead, condensation forms on the inside of the tin roof, which is also our ceiling. During the night, the condensation builds and gathers until it eventually starts dripping down, usually around 3 or 4 a.m. And again last night, a significant amount of the dripping took place over our bed.
After burying ourselves under the blankets didn’t help us go back to sleep (dripping water all over is fairly loud), we tried wiping the condensation off the tin with our precious paper towels. Yes, paper towels are precious these days (PC cut our allowance, which we will probably blog about soon). Anyway, despite attempting to wipe up the water and opening a window on a cold night in hopes of drying the house, we didn’t get much sleep last night.
We do, however, have a plan. We are going to try to cut down in the evenings on anything that creates steam. This means no more bathing or boiling drinking water at night, and rice and pasta must be cooked in the afternoon. If this doesn’t work, our next strategy is to become nocturnal. The dripping doesn’t usually begin over our bed until about 3 or 4, so we should be able to get in a nice sleep from the hours of 5 to midnight.
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