Our first floor downstairs neighbors have been complaining for some time that our plumbing is leaking onto their ceiling. But we have no plumbing problems that we can identify. After quite a few negotiations between our landlord and the first floor folks, the search began in earnest.
Step One:
Workers came and dug up the suspected leaking area under the bathroom sink. There was no leaky pipe. The bathroom stayed like this for over a week. Why we had to wait, we never understood. But finally, the work resumed.
It’s not hollow in there. It’s all filled in with concrete and dirt. So it has to be chinked out with a chisel and hammer. What a mess.
Step Two:
Workers return to do more hunting for the leaky pipes. First they shovel out the rubble and take it outside.
Step Three:
Then they start digging up a new spot in front of the toilet.
Then the remove the toilet and dig under it.
Still nothing. No leak. No bad pipes. All this for nothing.
Step Four:
The workers dismantle and remove the shower stall.
Four workers are digging like crazy to find the leaky pipes. FINALLY! Over two weeks after they first began digging, they find two problems!
The leak was under the shower. The last place they looked. Of course.
Needless to say, we’re using the squatty potty a lot now.
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Wouldn’t it have been easier to go up from the already water damaged ceiling? The bonus is you get a new bathroom floor (as long as they install the new plumbing for your toilet, sink AND shower correctly)! squatty potty to the rescue
Did you pray for patience — or something?
Some lessons we teach our kids are not in a book.
Gracious! That is a catastrophe. I hope you get your shower and toilet back very soon.
oh.my.goodness. 2 weeks?
Hopefully you will have a new bathroom floor in less than 2 weeks.
Yikes! I hope you get a new bathroom floor in a jiffy!
Blessings,
Dawn
We had the same problem when we move to our new flat, but we were the ones downstairs.. the ceiling was leaking. We had to hear the jackhammer they used for two weekends, stopped for awhile and continued for two weeks more. I think they had problems locating the leak,too. Now, I realized what our neighbors upstairs had to deal with.
Oh my word. What a ginormous mess! Hope it all gets put back together soon– and hopefully better than it was before.
Yikes! A mess is right! I don’t envy you!
What is the purpose of all the concrete?
Heh heh heh. Who knows? That’s the way they do the plumbing here. It’s encased in concrete. That forms our floor. So I guess my answer is — it’s our floor.