Thursday, April 05, 2007

Raindrops keep falling in my head

Why does life have to get so complicated? Yesterday I arrived home at 4:30 to a very squishy carpet. My central air conditioner drain had overflowed a few years ago so that was the first thing I checked. Not that. Then i see that water is coming out in a steady trickle from underneath my downstairs toilet. wonder freekinful. So i call a plumber and they come 50 minutes later. meanwhile I was bailing the bathroom floor with a bucket. The trickle got worse as people got home form work and flushed toilets or otherwise used water. The plumber refused to turn off the water supply because the only way to do that is to turn off water for all 18 condos on my line. Useless man and a waste of precious time. So i call someone at the condo board and they refer me to another board member but he's not home. I leave a message and he calls me at 6:00 and tells me which plumber has fixed this kind of problem in the past. I call them and they come pretty quickly and shut the water off but by this time it's 6:30 and I have been bailing for 2 hours on and off, mostly on. They have the problem fixed by 7:15 and I spent the next couple hours with my carpet machine draining the carpet which despite the bailing is pretty well saturated. Is still pretty wet even with three fans I left blowing on it overnight. sigh

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