Good things from bad
Posted: Tue Sep 09, 2008 10:45 am
So Saturday my water heater was flooding my apartment and soaked a good portion of my carpet... I tried to delay the call to maintenance till Monday but I went to lunch at Mazzios and came back about 30 min later and it was much worse... progressing into my kitchen... called maintenance as an emergency issue and they showed up real quick to get the water turned off... was a good while later when they finally replaced the copper tube so the water could be turned back on but still had to leave the power to it off till the carpet guy came out and sucked up all the water and removed the sodden padding... by the time he showed up and did his thing it was getting late and my brother was passed out on the small couch from watching Apocalypse Now Redux... but it does not stop there... things were fine all Sunday and then Monday morning I got ready and left for work... come back last night and the flooding has returned like some ghost haunting me since it was all the same area that was still missing its padding and the kitchen floor was half underwater... call maintenance again after shutting off the water to the water heater myself despite not see obvious leaks... then I hear a dripping under my kitchen sink... check under there while waiting on the guy to show and find everything soaked... water was dripping down from the garbage disposal... only lost a couple sponges in an open package (who knows what was in the water) and the boxes for other things unhurt by getting wet... guy comes out and says the whole sink/disposal/fixtures and likely dishwasher may need to be replaced so they are looking into that today... same carpet guy came out and sucked up all the water again and removed a bit more padding on the edges.... gonna call them at lunch to get an update but I will get nearly half a new apartment...
