Over the years, the house has required increasingly frequent painting to fight the growing mold.

We are surprised to discover that the exterior walls are made of laid brick covered with mortar as workmen remove the mortar layer in the bedroom and office on the third floor.

After a week of heavy rain, water is clearly leaking from somewhere above the ceiling into the new cement wall.

Before the end of March, the new roof is completed and there are no more signs of leaking. We discover the downspouts from the three roofs may flood the sunken pits around the ground floor in heavy rain.