more boring mundane stuff
Feb. 3rd, 2008 09:33 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
floatingleafSo, like I mentioned before, it's been almost a year since I moved into this apartment. And, apparently, it was high time for a major plumbing disaster.:/ Yesterday, around noon, as I came out of the tub, there was water all over the bathroom floor. And while I was mopping it up, wondering where the hell it came from, I heard loud banging on my front door. I barely had time to throw on a flimsy nightie and a robe before the plumber guy from the rental company used his key and came in. It turned out that my downstairs neighbor had called him, because the water was leaking through his ceiling (and I never heard the neighbor knocking on the door, because I was in the bath - not that I would have gotten out to answer the door, anyway). So, after assesing the situation, the plumber had to bring in some massive vacuum-like machine and clean out the mess. He said that this type of drain clean-up should be done routinely about once a year, to prevent leaks - but nobody told me that when I moved in. I also found out that his previous anonymous visit had originally nothing to do with my dripping kitchen tap. He had come here to check the kitchen radiator, which, according to my downstairs neighbor, was leaking through his ceiling as well (which I had no slightest clue about). And while he was doing that, he noticed the dripping tap - so he came back the next day to fix it too. Well... that certainly explains why my garbage bin was moved out of its usual place that day. *headshake* As well as tells me that no one reads the emails people send to the rental office. Well... I guess I'm sort of lucky that I live on the top floor, then - the poor guy downstairs (who I'm sure must hate me now) is the first to know about my plumbing issues, and by the time I find out about them, they are already being (or have been) fixed.:P
If I had a roommate, there would be a major row and guilt-tripping about MY HAIR clogging the pipes. Never mind that I use that little wire-cup thingy that's supposed to stop hair from going down the drain. And yes, I know I lose a lot of hair - there's a generous handful of it in the wire cup every time I come out of the bath. But there's hardly anything I can do about that, short of shaving my head a la Sinead O'Connor (and I wouldn't look half as good as she did with that type of do, thank you very much), so I may just as well accept it as a fact of life. And as long as no one is yelling at me because of it, I am fine. I mean, I'm not happy about flooding my neighbor's place, and if I had known I could have prevented it by having the pipes cleaned out earlier, I would have totally done that - but I'm not feeling guilty either, because, for my part, I was being as careful as I knew how to be. Just like before. Except this time I didn't have to deal with an angry neighbor - and the plumber guy was really nice and cheerful, not making a big deal of it at all. Business as usual for him, I guess.;)
Well... gotta go. Btw, my posts are so apallingly mundane of late that I should probably just shut up and wait till I have someting worthwhile to say. But that might take forever, for all I know... *sigh*
If I had a roommate, there would be a major row and guilt-tripping about MY HAIR clogging the pipes. Never mind that I use that little wire-cup thingy that's supposed to stop hair from going down the drain. And yes, I know I lose a lot of hair - there's a generous handful of it in the wire cup every time I come out of the bath. But there's hardly anything I can do about that, short of shaving my head a la Sinead O'Connor (and I wouldn't look half as good as she did with that type of do, thank you very much), so I may just as well accept it as a fact of life. And as long as no one is yelling at me because of it, I am fine. I mean, I'm not happy about flooding my neighbor's place, and if I had known I could have prevented it by having the pipes cleaned out earlier, I would have totally done that - but I'm not feeling guilty either, because, for my part, I was being as careful as I knew how to be. Just like before. Except this time I didn't have to deal with an angry neighbor - and the plumber guy was really nice and cheerful, not making a big deal of it at all. Business as usual for him, I guess.;)
Well... gotta go. Btw, my posts are so apallingly mundane of late that I should probably just shut up and wait till I have someting worthwhile to say. But that might take forever, for all I know... *sigh*
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Date: 2008-02-04 05:31 pm (UTC)He said that this type of drain clean-up should be done routinely about once a year, to prevent leaks
You didn't know that -- but isn't your landlord(-lady supposed to know about that? Or is it your responsibility?
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Date: 2008-02-05 02:15 am (UTC)You are one of a kind, Romi dear.;)
Well, I certainly didn't know about that, and I'm sure the building administration does, so they should have told me. But it's a huge rental company, they have buildings all over Chicago and only one administrative office to cover it all, so maybe they just don't bother to notify every tennant about everything. And they probably have more repairs to do as a result.:P
Since it's their property, they are responsible for fixing any problems with heating/plumbing/electricity etc., and I don't have to pay for those repairs - which is a good thing. The bad thing is that they only hire one guy to take care of stuff like that, and he's difficult to get hold of. Unless it's an emergency - which I guess my little flooding incident was.;)