The Sky fell!

[malachilenomade]

What an interesting 2 hours I've had. Sitting in my room, watching TV and eating burritos. Then I hear "drip drip drip" so I think "Huh, must not have turned the faucet off completely when I washed the dishes." Go to the sink and it's not dripping... and I can still hear the dripping. It's still 6:30, so it's dark, I turn on the lightswitch... nothing in the kitchen... still I hear dripping. Go to the bathroom.... MY CEILING IS LEAKING!!! :eek: Holy crap! A call to the landlord, who I woke up. "Sure, I'll be out there about 11." Uh, NO! How about now... and it's getting worse! I put pots and pans under the leaks... and NOW IT'S LEAKING INTO THE KITCHEN! :eek: :eek: I call him back and he said he just heard from the people that live above me and they told him how bad it was up there (they got it worse than I did!) and he's heading out the door right then! In the meantime, PART OF MY BATHROOM CEILING COLLAPSED! Luckily, it was directly into the bathtub! Landlord shows up, turns off the water, checks out the damage... it's WET but not horrible (not as bad as it COULD have been, I figure - especially with part of my drop ceiling now resting in the tub). I checked out the second floor apartment and there was a constant stream of water coming off of their ceiling light in the kitchen! Between them, the guy from the third floor and I, we got all the water cleaned up (and I came close to losing another section of my bathroom ceiling).

Get to wait until about 11 for the plumber to get here, but at least everything has stopped dripping (aside from the occassional drip from leftover water). And the ceiling tile wasn't that office partical board stuff.. it was a solid piece of insulation type, so that's not as messy as I was dreading....

In the end, if it HAD to happen, I'm glad it happened today and not while I was at work!

Man, I'm awake now! I was going to doze off after breakfast, but now I'm wired!

[jerseygirl]

Well hello! Great way to start the day. At least your landlord's on it.

[trubador]

:umbrella:

Stay dry.

[malachilenomade]

Had a slight freak out about 30 minutes ago... I was in the kitchen and heard something. Eyes go wide and I run into the bathroom and check the floor and ceiling, but no dripping water. Turns out what I heard was the bubbling pop of the chicken in then oven ;)

[BrowderChick]

YIKES!!!!

:eek:

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[who45]

Wow, what a night. As Trub said hope you stay dry now. :D

[eta_carinae]

Wow.... so have they fixed the ceiling yet?

[mycattoldme]

Glad everything worked out for you!!

When I was living in Chicago a number of years ago I came home from work, opened my front door and heard what sounded like the shower running. Now I'm thinking...did I leave the house this morning and leave the shower running!!! WTF! I can be absentminded but....

I open up the bathroom door and there is a "shower" but its coming from around the toilet area! I called the landlord and someone arrived right away to turn off the water, turns out one of the pipes had burst in the apartment above me. It must have just happened too since I only had like a 1/2" of water on the bathroom floor and it had just started running out into the hall.

The really fun thing was that the landlord gave me a $25.00 gift certificate for calling so quickly! I was grateful of course but I thought was there some other reaction I should have had of course I'm going to call them immediately!! I guess some people must try to fix it themselves buy calling a plumber and waiting for the plummer to arrive, if I had done that my apartment would have been completely flooded!

[fiona-maria]

Oooo, cripes! Leaks is bad! And doesn't something like that disrupt your entire life when it happens?!!*argh* I am sorry. What a mercy it fell into your bathtub. I know, small mercy, but mercy nonetheless. At least it wasn't your bed....

My mum's pipe to the 'fridge broke and about 150 gallons of water came pouring into the cellar last Monday. She called me up in a freak, and I had to rush over there and start vacuuming up the water while she moved cardboard boxes out, and waited for the plumber and the water damage guys to show up. Yowser!

So, I got it, malachilenomade. That is quite the event.....I am hoping you are ok, and that things get back to (putative) normal for you soon....*smile*

[malachilenomade]

Oooo, cripes! Leaks is bad! And doesn't something like that disrupt your entire life when it happens?!!*argh* I am sorry. What a mercy it fell into your bathtub. I know, small mercy, but mercy nonetheless. At least it wasn't your bed....
Funny you should mention that because that's EXACTLY what happened to the guy who lives in the apartment behind mine. He had been asleep less than 30 minutes (up all night partying!) and was woke up by the water dripping on his face. Now THAT had to suck!

The really fun thing was that the landlord gave me a $25.00 gift certificate for calling so quickly!
Wish mine did! My landlord couldn't understand why I was the first to call when the water HAD to pass through the second floor apartment to get to mine!

so have they fixed the ceiling yet?
Not yet... though all I'm missing is one ceiling tile, so it's not so bad. The others made it through quite nicely, considering. Although the loss of that one DOES make for a CHILLY shower due to the draft that comes through! :eek:

[blue]

Something similar happened to me a few weeks ago. I'm having construction in one part of my apartment, so I had to move the kitty litter to a small bathroom that was once my kids' bathroom. So the cats came running out kind of terrified, and I heard loud rhythmic noises coming from the room. It was raining from the ceiling right next to the kitty litter (luckily missing it by an inch) and making a lake on the floor. A pipe in the apartment above had given in to old age, and all their waste water was coming down on me, whenever they used the sink, the shower, etc.....

[Clarsax]

Something like that happened in my house a few months back. There was a really bad storm and water was coming down in buckets. All of a sudden, two big puddles appeared on the ceiling and started dripping all over the carpet and on my computer. I got a few pots and pans, but then the ceiling collapsed, once again, all over the carpet and all over the computer. It turns out that when some roofers had come over in the summer to repair that part of the roof, they really botched the job and left holes in the roof. Whenever it rained, water ran under the shingles and into the roof and then just sat there until finally the storm came and the water in the roof came pouring out. There are still big holes in the ceiling where the plaster fell. Some year we'll get them repaired, once we can pay off the new repairs made on the botched roof job.

[malachilenomade]

Something like that happened in my house a few months back. There was a really bad storm and water was coming down in buckets. All of a sudden, two big puddles appeared on the ceiling and started dripping all over the carpet and on my computer. I got a few pots and pans, but then the ceiling collapsed, once again, all over the carpet and all over the computer. It turns out that when some roofers had come over in the summer to repair that part of the roof, they really botched the job and left holes in the roof. Whenever it rained, water ran under the shingles and into the roof and then just sat there until finally the storm came and the water in the roof came pouring out. There are still big holes in the ceiling where the plaster fell. Some year we'll get them repaired, once we can pay off the new repairs made on the botched roof job.
If the repair people botched the job, then they should either have to do the job for free or repay for the original work.

My bathroom is still dripping... it's the excess water that was stored up in the insulation from the original drippings :( Who knows how long this is going to last... :dunno:

[Clarsax]

If the repair people botched the job, then they should either have to do the job for free or repay for the original work.

My bathroom is still dripping... it's the excess water that was stored up in the insulation from the original drippings :( Who knows how long this is going to last... :dunno:

You would think so.

Hopefully the water will dry up soon!