Hi all!

As some of you may or may not know, I’ve been working in Faculties with Robin and Louise over the past few months.

Sadly my time with the Faculties team has come to a end, but when one door closes another door opens. On that note I’m very happy to announce that I’m now working with the exhibitions team and very much look forward to telling you how I get on.

Now, at the request of a college I’m going to talk a bit about how a leak next to

Firstly, the leak had started in the early hours in the morning and was due to rain. By the time I arrived staff were already dealing with it.

On this day the museum was closed but if it hadn’t have been we would have roped off the area surrounding the leak so members of the public were not put at risk.

We immediately started mopping up the excess water on the floor and walls, and a bucket was put under the leak. The next issue was to find the source of the problem and fix it.

We discovered the problem was one of the tiles on the roof had broken letting the water in, which then would seep through a void, which then came through the ceiling.

But you can’t access the roof when it’s raining out side, because it is too dangerous, so there was no way to stop the leak in the short term.

The next step was get in contact with the curator in charge of the paintings next to the leak, so they could make the decision if the painting should be taken down or not.

Thankfully there was no damage done to the paintings and it had stopped raining so there was no need to take it down, but if there had been, a small lifting contraption would have been used to help lift the painting down safely.

Now that it was safe, Robin and I headed up to the roof to see what could be done to fix the tile. Unfortunately the tile was out of our reach and was also in a disgusting area where some pigeons lived. They had made quite a mess!

A cleaner had to be called in before attempting to fix the tile, due to the diseases you can pick from bird excrement, but after all that the area was cleaned and the tile repaired, and now I can safely say that’s one less tile worry about on Brighton museums roof!

Thanks for reading.
Zak