Hejsan! Jag är amerikan men bodde jag i Sverige några år sedan. Tack så mycket för dina råd. Det kan var lättare i Sverige för sådana saker, tror jag.

I mean I could just spray a hose up there, couldn’t I?

We had the roof replaced two years ago. I believe they redid all the flashing at that point. So there’s a chance this could be old? If the leak is resolved, which I’ll verify, do we have to do anything to the wood or are we good?

Oh interesting. I thought electrical tape was the only thing. I also like to do “code plus.” I’ll get some friction tape.

Yeah once the micro is plugged in this never gets touched. And it’s on its own circuit.

Thanks for the tips. That’s just what I’ll do. Do you think it’s important to mount it to the stud or will an old work box do?

I am lucky. I had no idea this was going on back here. Here’s the back of the scorched cabinet.

And here is my new cap job.

I’m going to cover it with a plate and cut a hole in the melamine just as you suggested.

The blue box is one of those kind that is supposed to latch into the drywall, but the melamine is cut too tight for that to have ever worked so it’s just busted out when I pulled on cabinet.

Absolutely

Holy shit

It’s an IKEA cabinet with a melamine backing. I’m going to pull the micro and cabinet out and we’ll see what that shows us

Aha. Great question. Nope.

It looks like my client fails when I try to add photos. Here’s a link to the pictures: https://photos.app.goo.gl/aQmzYZvssHRkSBUG7

And I assume the line branches before it travels up into the walls? Or is there a chance it branches after it leaves the crawl space, in which case you could consider opening a wall for the valve.

Heh. Not even fixing it.

I can’t imagine it would be more than a couple hundred bucks assuming they can find an accessible point for it. Mine is in an unfinished room at the corner of the basement where the main line comes in and replacing it took the plumber life twenty minutes.

You can ask the plumber about coordinating with the city for shutoff. Maybe they’d know a guy?

But definitely don’t mess with it if. In my case I couldn’t find my external shutoff when I needed that internal one replaced so I had the city come locate it for me. They uncovered the plate, tested the valve and it broke immediately. Fixing it was a major excavation. The city guy told me how lucky I was that I hadn’t found it and tested it myself.

One key to happiness for me is to start from the assumption that I’ve been unclear.

This feels like reading a language that you only kinda know.

Ok so in defense of dumbasses, we don’t always understand the question. Eg, whose left? In those cases we don’t want to make your clarify the question and drag things out, so we give you what we hope is an unequivocally clear response. It comes from a deep-seeded fear of miscommunication resulting in too many mailboxes with their flags on the wrong side or whatever. We apologize for the pedantry, though. I get that it’s annoying.

Lol. That one makes me strip a gear.

When the time comes to study further, Brené Brown’s Atlas of the Heart is an incredibly useful and approachable resource. It is basically a glossary of common emotions, but they’re grouped by similarities and described with her charm and wisdom.

I switched from from beer to flavored carbonated water. This was 18 years ago though and the options were pretty limited back then. Mostly it was just artificially sweetened garbage. I’d rather just have a club soda and add my own fruit or juice to taste. But these days it’s just easier to buy Polar or whatever.