Below are some pictures taken in my barn.
Sometime this winter this unknown black substance seems to have leaked out of ceiling of my barn. It is dried now and almost has a cresote kind of look.
Does anyone have any ideas what I might find when I take that ceiling panel down.
Construction is only 4 years old, 2×10 16 OC joists 5/8 ply sheating. architectural shingles., It does have insulation in the ceiling. OSB ceiling. Barn is heated only as needed and not at all this winter.
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Not to be a smarty pants, but nothing was stored up there, right? (Not sure from your post if there is an attic space to even store anything in. Bat guano would take longer to seep out and don't think it would look like creosote.) I'm sure you'll get some other ideas soon.
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First thing I checked was up in the attic of the barn. Nothing up there. This section doesn't have any attic space.
I wondered about the animal angle, but it is alot of stuff and fortunately not particularly smelly.
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So your cartoons are pretty good, but are they yours or are you posting the toil of some poor schmuck who is a struggling artist?
Overall, they're a few notches shy of one of my favorites, John Callahan, a quad who draws with his mouth and loves to get the PC crowd's knickers is a knot.
You're almost inspiring me to scan and post selective pages from the "I Hate Cats" book.
I don't know if your ever read Mad Magazine as a kid but those cartoons were done by Sergio Aragonés, often times as little one inch long drawings in the outer columns of white around the perimeter of the page.
I never got past Spy vs. Spy. But my memory seems to be slightly jogged.
Ok, I had one...
Well I haven't been abducted yet.
Haven't taken down the OSB yet, my big ladder is out on loan. But to be honest I was hoping to figure it out or at least have a theory before I take it down.
Kind of want to know if a dead animal or hive of wasps is about to fall on my head!
But back to reality. I did go back up in the attic and noticed that this stuff looks a lot like the black stuff that you find between the kraft paper and fiberglass insulation. A little research on the web indicates that it is a tar product used to attach them together.
So my current working theory is an ice dam, unlikely in an unheated space but this was a bad winter for ice dams here in NE. Water gets in and runs down the inside of the insulation and some of the black gunk comes with it.
Any thoughts appreciated.
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I thought the same thing about the coons. Had a mother birth a couple above a garage, same looking stuff. Remodeling Contractor just outside the Glass City.
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When one of our customers was moving in, someone left a door ajar, allowing entrance to a racoon who proceeded to defecate(sp) on the dining room table. It had the look of motor oil sludge and an horrendous odor. They had a poor Hispanic maid who had to hold her nose and clean it up. Thank God the racoon waited until they had moved in.
I start tomorrow, working for a lady whose house was infested with some sort of wasp, or maybe it was bees. The pest control company got the critters out about two years ago.
Since then, the ceiling in her library -- the location of the nests -- has had persistent black stains coming through the drywall. Her painter has tried various stain-sealing primers, with no luck.
Perhaps you have something similar?
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Have you taken down any of the OSB to see what's up behind it? That'd be the first thing to do.
It's alittle hard to say without a closeup and touch it feel it kind of test - not that I would want to feel that...
but here is my theory
You are not sealed up there on the cieling
You are still working on it - maybe making dust and heating with a ________? that makes moisture as a by-product.
so the condensation and dust is feeding mildew opr other molds and the black you see is the outcome.
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Mold.
Take a spray bottle and mix up a 50-50 mix of common bleach and water and a drop or two of dish washing soap. Spray it on the stains and let dry.
Once dry if the black stuff has disappeared where treated, or drastically lightened, you know you have mold.
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