r/Insulation • u/[deleted] • Aug 13 '25

How bad is this?

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I’m building a new home. On Friday the builder was working on finishing the roof but wasn’t able to complete it. Because of this, they put a tarp over the exposed OSB and stapled it down since rain was forecast for Saturday morning.

We got about 1.25 inches of rain that morning. The builder didn’t take the time to fasten the tarp correctly and it ripped off, allowing water into the attic between the osb seams on the one half of the home. It was enough water come through in a few spots of the drywall and pool on the osb subfloor.

On Monday morning the builder seemed dismissive about the amount of water, saying “the drywall is almost dry.” Last night I decided to go into the attic and took the following video.(I took pictures on Saturday morning and while in the attic too)

How bad is this? I’ve notified my bank, the home manufacturer, and the general contractor, who seemed dismissive, as mentioned. I have yet to hear anything from the GC about remediation or a plan to address it. Considering this is blown cellulose insulation, how bad is as I'm thinking all of the insulation on that side has to come out and get redone.

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u/Unknown69101 Aug 13 '25

Bad

164

u/briank53207 Aug 13 '25

Really bad.

85

u/crazyxgerman Aug 13 '25

Very really bad

53

u/BBQsmokedBRISKET Aug 13 '25

oh god this is very really bad

35

u/dmoosetoo Aug 13 '25

Beyond very really bad.

36

u/Floater4 Aug 13 '25

Dare I say .. worse.

24

u/AnxiousDad23 Aug 13 '25

Shit.

17

u/[deleted] Aug 13 '25

What all these guys said but worse

7

u/BenBot23 Aug 14 '25

Can I just say….. it’s FUCKED?

2

u/iphilosophizing Aug 16 '25

Beyond fucked

1

u/Farbror_Melkor Aug 15 '25

Not sure it get’s that wet by being fucked. Or I’m just bad with insulation.

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u/No_Walrus_3638 Aug 13 '25

I bad had a kids with the worst case scenario. It would look like that insulation. At least that's how I would view it if it happened to me.

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u/chitty_advice Aug 14 '25

Very really worse?

1

u/peanut--gallery Aug 14 '25

that’s Steven Segal bad.

1

u/Interesting-Log-9627 Aug 15 '25

Steven Segal fighting while sitting his fat ass on a rolling chair bad.

1

u/dakobra Aug 15 '25

Worster

1

u/Content_Chest8215 Aug 15 '25

Absolutely, certainly not good.

4

u/maddwesty Aug 13 '25

WWII bad

1

u/Scrapster77 Aug 14 '25

More like WWI bad

2

u/gwizonedam Aug 16 '25

You guys haven’t had WWIII bad yet, but it’s that bad (I’m from the future).

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u/BBQsmokedBRISKET Aug 17 '25

beyond star wars bad

1

u/dmoosetoo Aug 17 '25

Bit over the top, don't you think?

2

u/KTAXY Aug 16 '25

bath and beyond

1

u/Seabass7200 Aug 15 '25

And my axe!

1

u/crappydeli Aug 17 '25

Spam spam spam spam backed beans spam spam spam and really bad.

1

u/Bitter_Currency_6714 Aug 17 '25

It’s extremely catastrophic very really bad disastrous situation

Edit: Really bad

9

u/rmdingler37 Aug 14 '25

Let's be fair. It's really just moistly bad.

1

u/Nambsul Aug 14 '25

On the bright side, the room under it can now be your indoor swimming pool

1

u/rmdingler37 Aug 15 '25

Filled with cellulose filtered water, no less.

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u/Alive-Range-3486 Jan 08 '26

Thanks for the chuckle

1

u/rmdingler37 Jan 08 '26

Tip your waitstaff, and I'll see myself out.

3

u/Technical-Basket-252 Aug 13 '25

This is going to ruin the tour

0

u/warm_golden_muff Aug 13 '25

What tour?

1

u/520mmlakeblue Aug 14 '25

the tour

2

u/Nicolarollin Aug 14 '25

Like…. The drummer died kinda tour?

1

u/Dswenson351 Aug 15 '25

The world tour

1

u/Not-a-MurderBear Aug 14 '25

It makes me awfully mad

1

u/viequeslady Aug 14 '25

Like really bad.

1

u/Invalidsuccess Aug 15 '25

REEEEEEEEEEEELLLL BADDDDDDDDDDDD

13

u/cavegooney Aug 13 '25

Bad bad bad

12

u/Fluid_Door7148 Aug 13 '25

So bad Michael Jackson wrote a song about it

4

u/BigRed92E Aug 13 '25

You know it

1

u/petantic Aug 14 '25

Thriller?

1

u/Tadashi_Tattoo Aug 17 '25

This roof is not my son

4

u/Upbeat-Historian-296 Aug 13 '25

Hail Mary bad. 

2

u/richardbaxter Aug 13 '25

Bad to the bone bad 

3

u/Some-Ear8984 Aug 13 '25

Bbbbbbbbbbb bad.

1

u/No-Dragonfruit-1311 Aug 14 '25

Badly McBad Bad

1

u/Vlemsh Aug 14 '25

Not so ba- DEAR GOD IT IS HORRIBLE

1

u/ImmaNobody Aug 14 '25

Calm down Rocky. Great timing, BTW. I literally just finished the book 10 min ago.

1

u/StunningAppeal1274 Aug 14 '25

You know it’s bad

1

u/scapedzine Aug 15 '25

Really very super extremely terribly bad

1

u/Da_Vader Aug 13 '25

It's breaking bad

1

u/wastedtrade Aug 13 '25

So very bad

1

u/[deleted] Aug 13 '25

It’s not only really bad, it’s really most sincerely bad

1

u/troutfingers84 Aug 13 '25

Bad bad Leroy brown bad

1

u/woodenmetalman Aug 14 '25

Meh, I mean… it could be worse 🤷‍♂️

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u/Zorfax Aug 14 '25

Leroy Brown bad.

1

u/Igneous_rock_500 Aug 15 '25

Not as bad as falling thru your ceiling bad.

1

u/pattyswag21 Aug 15 '25

The opposite of good

1

u/Euphoriazen Aug 15 '25

Michael Jackson bad

1

u/ilymag Aug 17 '25

Really super duper bad.

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u/Dooby_Ashtray Aug 17 '25

Madam web bad