I, and the house I live in, are old. The roof leaks a little in heavy rainstorms but it’s not too bad. For reasons I won’t go into, it can’t be repaired at this time. 

After the last big rainstorm, my equally old but still excellent Sony TV started issuing dampness alarms. I didn’t even know it had such a thing. I put a fan over it for a day and everything returned to normal. As far as I could determine, there was a small leak along a seam in the ceiling that was the source of the problem. 

I can’t go on the roof but I checked the attic. Unfortunately, the apparent leak was right where the roof meets the attic floor. It was completely inaccessible so there was nothing I could do from there.

The layout of the lounge is such that the TV occupies the only space where it can go. So I decided to make a deflector shield for it to at least keep the drips from penetrating the interior. The leaks are very tiny.

I found a surplus lid to a plastic bin and sawed off one edge. I then drilled a couple holes in the lip to line up with the wall mount holes of the TV. I then took the wall mount screws, still in their original package, and bolted the deflector on. Any leak from above will now strike that instead of the ventilation slots on the TV.

This is an extremely minor DIY and not worth any photos. The only reason I have posted it here is because I am old and have nothing better to do.