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Author Topic: Roof leaks Joshua Waaland Jedi Master Film Handler Posts: 800 From: Cleveland, Ohio Registered: Dec 1999 posted 01-16-2000 02:25 AM                     I can beat you all on this one. One time when I was working at a Cinemark Movies 10 I was downstairs doing house checks and the manager called me on the radio to tell me that a patron complained about the projector shutting off. So I run up to the booth to see what the damage was. Yep you guessed it the roof tile directly and I mean directly above the projector head filled with water and came down all over the projector. I had to totally take the head apart and clean every crevis of it not to mention cut out about ten feet of film. That was some weird stuff. I wouldn't believe it unless I saw it.  |  IP: Logged Ian Price Phenomenal Film Handler Posts: 1714 From: Denver, CO Registered: Jun 99 posted 01-16-2000 02:12 PM                     The roof leaks I wrote about before were fixed. It rained last night and a patron complained about another leak. We took a work light and went into every auditorium. we found a slight leak form some heater vents in Auditorium #4, Then in Auditorium #3 we found a big leak behind the screen. Monday we will call the landlord again. I think I liked Denver more because it didn't seem to leak as much with snow as with rain.  |  IP: Logged Ken Layton Phenomenal Film Handler Posts: 1452 From: Olympia, Wash. USA Registered: Sep 1999 posted 01-16-2000 10:36 PM                     I just got back from the 6 plex in Post Falls, Idaho and we had a leak directly over the Strong platter for auditorium # 3. Fortunately, no film was on the top deck, but I had to clean out the wet insulation that fell down with the water and gunked up the centerfeed unit and conectors.  |  IP: Logged Ian Price Phenomenal Film Handler Posts: 1714 From: Denver, CO Registered: Jun 99 posted 02-13-2000 08:50 PM                     Sorry to have resurrected this post from four pages back, but I am soaked to the bone and feeling ornery. It has rained for four days here in Santa Rosa and it is leaking in to four out of five of my auditoriums. There is one where it is leaking from a ventilation duct onto a patrons seat. I was on the roof trying to get a tarp to stay over that ductwork. I will be calling our landlord in the morning. I WANT A NEW ROOF, DAMN IT ALL! (Yelled, while holding my breath and stamping my feet on the ground, in my wet swishy socks.)  |  IP: Logged John Wilson Film God Posts: 5438 From: Sydney, Australia. Registered: Dec 1999 posted 02-13-2000 09:20 PM                     >>I found one small drip in the managers office.<< Only ONE on duty that day?  |  IP: Logged Chad Souder Jedi Master Film Handler Posts: 962 From: Waterloo, IA, USA Registered: Feb 2000 posted 02-14-2000 12:12 AM                     I only have one leak in my theatre (that I know of). Unfortunately it is right over the only location our four deck SPECO platter will fit in the booth, and of course I found out about the leak the hard way. Technicolor has a knack of being nice when explaining that "after thorough testing, we've determined that reels 4 and 5 had severe water damage due to equipment/building/operator error". Reel 6 we managed to salvage after using almost a whole gallon of renovex on it. What a contact high that was. ------------------ "All right, brain. You don't like me and I don't like you, but let's just do this and I can get back to killing you with beer." - Homer Simpson  |  IP: Logged John Walsh Film God Posts: 2490 From: Connecticut, USA, Earth, Milky Way Registered: Oct 1999 posted 02-14-2000 10:01 AM                     A theater our chain had (it's a supermarket now) in Danbury, CT got flooded. There's a river out back that overflowed one year, and came in through the doors on each side of the stage. It got about 4 ft. deep, just below the stage level. The manager had called some of the kids in to help clean it up, not realizing it was so deep. She when in to check on them, and they were doing shallow dives into the water off of the stage. I wasn't there, but I saw some pictures (which I'm trying to get)- it looks like a movie screen in front of a pool. The place I'm working in now leaked alot about 6 months ago. They called in the roofer, but you know, if it doesn't leak, it's not a movie theater. So there are still newly-discolored ceiling tiles around reminding me....  |  IP: Logged Colin Wiseley Expert Film Handler Posts: 123 From: Blacksburg, VA Registered: Dec 1999 posted 02-14-2000 12:44 PM                     The theater I work in now had 6 drains on the roof above the auditorium with elbow joints and all 6 of them leaked through the ceiling into buckets we had on the floor below. The heating system leaked too and we had buckets under the radiators as well. Luckily the theater was completely renovated a year ago and there have been no leaks since (knock on wood).  |  IP: Logged Brad Miller Administrator Posts: 17775 From: Plano, TX (36.2 miles NW of Rockwall) Registered: May 99 posted 02-14-2000 03:00 PM                     I think Joshua gets the prize here on roof leaks, but there's nothing like having a water leak down the exhaust hose into the lamphouse onto the xenon. Yes, no kidding. Thank GOD it wasn't on.! (Chad, FilmGuard will cure your water damaged prints so long as you apply it before you unroll it. I've resurrected several in the last few years for theaters around town and 3 for studios.)  |  IP: Logged

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