Fixing Exhaust Pipes in the Basement at 1:30 AM

(First attempt to write this was on fb but for some unknown reasons Fedora or Microsoft mail or gmail zipped some of the pictures so i first uploaded others by mistake).

A few days ago they came and marked the areas of the siding to be fixed. One place was by the lid of the basement next to our door.

Today they came to fix the siding they marked a few days ago. They started to work late afternoon when i came from somewhere and talked to the guy and probably finish first thing morning. They left the lid open so i took a chance and made some pictures inside.

Didn't look pretty. Insulation is wet and falling because of broken exhaust pipes as i said so many times before. Inside electric driers all water from clothes turns to vapor and those vapors are flooding the basement through leaks and wet everything including the floor beams and fiberboard on top of those.

(Told them about this several month ago during the episode with the argument with the driver of the purple Dodge).

So i went, bought some duck tape at WinCo after midnight and got some wire, a 1 mm drill bit and fixed  them. Don't know how long the're gonna last after the're gonna close the lid because the plastic masks i attached the pipes to with wire are very brittle.

The one fallen on the ground at the next entrance (gonna go outside now and see apt nr.) was stinking so badly like smoke i took a shower and i still smell just by touching it. Could that had been the cause of smoke i felt so often in the building.

When i left for WinCo a coyote crossed my path next to the building and i was afraid he could have gotten curious and inside the basement. I first went inside to fix at @ 2AM (took more pictures at 1:30).

3 AM. After taking a shower i went outside and removed the lid so it will dry some more tonight. It was smelling weird. I think the pipe i attached now stinks on the outside. Really bad. Back inside i noticed the same smell that now was coming from the clothes i had on me that i put in the laundry and started a cycle.

Conclusion. They were two broken pipes, one from upstairs, one from next wall. I fixed the one upstairs in two places and partially fixed the other one because in the area where it's smashed it meant making too much noise. The fallen pipe from the next entrance i couldn't finish fixing is stinking really bad like some unknown smoke. By reattaching it to the mask the smell went outside the building, big time.

Here you can see lint projected on opposite wall from an opening that is seen only in the second picture (second pipe joint covered by first on the right). Picture taken after fixing the pipes.

Before. Tape was  broken and pipe hanging aside.

Before and after (this one couldn't fix, it involved making too much noise), it's still partially open.

Pipe laying on the floor (Apt.1 or 2). Before.

Apartment 6 upstairs, before.
Wet insulation under dining area.

And about under the couch.

And after.

This is how the vents look on the outside. Stinky one on the left and i think it's from the apartment downstairs (the tall woman with multi-color hair and a big doc). (Front of the building, the plant on the left is an Aucuba Japonica or golden dust, a very toxic plant especially in combination with smoke). On the left, Apt.1 and 2, on the right, 6 and 5.