Today, we discovered a leak in our corridor in our temporary living quarters while it was raining outside! Upon closer inspection, there was a hole right through the outer layer of the clear corrugated plastic sheet, and we found a little spent firework payload, only measuring about 12mm by 18mm!
Our neighbour, yesterday, decided to celebrate Guy Fawkes Night really early this year and was letting off some fireworks which included these mortar shells that pumped sparkling displays up into the air. One of those empty payload capsules must have went straight up and came down hard on our roof.
Hole-in-the-roof
But to be fair, our corrugated plastic roof is getting rather old and it is becoming more and more brittle as the years roll by. But, it was still amazing that such a little thing could punch clean through the first layer of our roof, and bounced off the second layer inside, we now have a permanent souvenir visible until such a time in the future when we dismantle our temporary living quarters!
So the solution was to thoroughly clean the surface, with sand paper and chemicals, and lay down aluminium tapes to try and make a waterproof patch. We will see !
We will have to keep an eye on this roof and hopefully, it will survive for another couple of years.