One morning during the crazy winter we were having, I went to get my son up and the floor near his window felt unusually cold. Later that day when I put him down for nap time, water pooled between my toes as I stepped in the carpet in that same area. After inspecting the walls and ceiling we ended up pullin back the carpet and pad along the wall and discovered a good bit of water that was coming in from under the base board. We were surpirsed to find that it was not coming in the window at all, but instead through the walls as the ice built up in the gutters was causing the melt to find other drainage routes.
We set up a fan in his room and had him take his nap in our room while we broke off the huge icicles hanging over the gutters above is wondow. How did we do this you ask? We hung ourselves out the window and smashed at them with a broomstick and some parts with a hammer and chisel. Not the safest solution, I know, but keeping the icicles in check every couple of hours for several days , fixed the problem and the floor and carpet dried out without issue. It does still need to be tucked back under the base boards, but nothing was permanantly damaged and we are glad for that.
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