Stupid Guest Tricks

Last month, my wife and I were essentially forced from our bedroom when a leak appeared and it took a week to get it fixed.

Tonight, it reappeared. Same place.

I knew the roofers didn't care what they were doing.

I can relate to that. When I was living with my parents, the was a bad rain storm. I complained to my dad that there was water running down the windows in my room. Of course dad thought I was loosing my mind. The stupid construction forgot to seal the windows and put the proper shingles on the roof. It happened twice. My dad was pissed off.

I would suggest to get that company out and get them to fix and replace anything that gets damaged. My uncle places a plastic tarp down and sand bags it in place. :)

I hope it gets fixed correctly soon. This is the wrong kind of rain to have a roof leak in (not that a roof leak is ever good).

I know what you are going through, and with all the rain there right now its gotta be bad. I lived in a two story town house with a flat roof, old place, real dump, there was a lake on the roof all winter long and the roof into my bedroom leaked, the landlord had some guys come out to fix it and all it did was move the leak, they came out several times and all it did was move the leak accross my room and my bed. One night we were sitting in the living room (downstairs) when the water started coming in on the lower floor. We move not long after that, ruined bed and sectional.

Steve

We just went through our own leak disaster too, but from an unlikely source. I live in a 2-story apartment and we'd been having problems with the toilet in the upstairs bathroom. One night last month I'm home alone, sitting in my bedroom on the ground floor, and I hear a dripping noise coming from our living room. I walk out there & flip on the lights to find two holes in the ceiling and water pouring out of them! So I run upstairs & get halfway down the hall, when I realize I've just stepped into half an inch of water. I get to the bathroom at the end of the hall to find the toilet bowl overflowing (all clean water, thankfully nothing gross). I shut down the water, found buckets for the leaks & grabbed every water-absorbing thing I could find. Luckily, the only damage was a ruined 5' x 5' section of the acoustic ceiling.

Adam

A house up the hill was being used as a rental. It had been unoccupied for a month. The rental agent went by to check on it and found the second floor bathroom toilet laying in the kitchen with a large hole in the ceiling. Apparently it had been leaking for some time and the joists had rotted away. No explanation why the ceiling wasn't water stained before the drop.

Just imagine if someone had been using it.

When we lived in Orange, before we moved to our present domicile, I was taking a bath in our ancient, obviously-built-by-the-lowest-bidder-and-barely-maintained apartment, when all of a sudden water began gushing from under the wall separating our then-manager's apartment from our bathroom. There was no visible opening at the bottom of the wall, but our bathroom had nearly a quarter inch of water on the floor nevertheless. Turns out their water heater had burst, and as far as I know for the rest of the time we were there they never got it replaced. That dump should've been torn down years ago, if you ask me.

hobie16 wrote:A house up the hill was being used as a rental. It had been unoccupied for a month. The rental agent went by to check on it and found the second floor bathroom toilet laying in the kitchen with a large hole in the ceiling. Apparently it had been leaking for some time and the joists had rotted away. No explanation why the ceiling wasn't water stained before the drop.

Just imagine if someone had been using it.

Maybe someone was ;)

ktulu wrote:Maybe someone was ;)

Gives a whole new meaning to taking a leak!!

GRUMPY PIRATE wrote:Gives a whole new meaning to taking a leak!!

Or dropping a load!