May 20, 2005
I must tell this in its entirety. What an adventure in innkeeping. One of our guests, Jean, a lovely woman, heard a pumping noise in the night and had trouble sleeping. Who wouldn’t? I know I would.
At first Kim thought it was the sump pump and was going to go under the carriage house using the new bilco doors and the digging and widening of the carriage house studio crawl space. The closet, you see, the other access to underneath, is filled.
I decided that the quick fix, was the turn off the sump pump. I did and voila, the noise was still there. ?? Then we decided that it must be a heater on somewhere.
Well, I turned off heater units and finally turned off the one marked room 16. That turned off the noise. However, it also turned off the plugs in Jean’s room. We found this out the following day.
So, I went underneath the carriage house using the bilco doors. The new ones that Kim and I put in. What fun. The rocks down there are a bit sharp. The gravel is new. Drainage. And I did have to belly crawl some feet but eventually I could sit. It’s dry down there, because of the new sump pump, and nice.
While down there I WoooOOOOoooOOOOooOOOoo and then denied it, of course. Coming back up, I couldn’t help but do a couple of Mwahahahahahahas. It did feel like coming up from the depths.
What was the trouble? It was the fan between parts of the building. I turned it off with a switch in the overfilled closet that’s the other access to the crawl space. Problem solved. It must have gotten turned on by accident. Who knows?