Saturday, February 21, 2015

It's raining in the bathroom!

So this afternoon I started a load of laundry and decided to sit in my fancy anti-gravity chair and soak up some sun, which is possible since I'm in sunny Arizona!  As I was getting my Vitamin D I hear a dripping noise.  I start listening closely thinking it doesn't sound like it's coming from the washer, and that would be an odd noise from the washer anyway.

I venture inside to find the source and find water coming from the vent into the toilet.  This does help reduce the mess it's making, but it's still a huge problem.  I start shuffling papers to find my emergency number and after navigating the thousand option menu I leave a message for maintenance.  I then run upstairs to make sure they're a) home and b) alive.  Both turn out to be true, but her toilet is running without end and I can see the water all the way into the hall already.  I come back downstairs and the water is now dripping from the door frame, hallway and kitchen.  I leave another urgent message and being to frantically move everything out of the way.

Kudos to the maintenance guy, he arrived less than 15 minutes after my first call.  He immediately had gone upstairs and turned the toilet off and then came to see what I needed done.  He cleaned it up, explained it would just take a while for the drips to finish and said Monday someone would come fix the bubble in the ceiling.  He also took time to show my how to turn the water to the toilet off should such a thing ever happen to me.  I appreciated that, a lot.

Now a few hours later I hear dripping again.  I look in the bathroom, and do I ever have a bubble in the ceiling. 


So now I have my kitchen garbage can sitting in the bathroom and I'm trying to figure out what to do next.  I'm not sure if this is a new problem, or simply the left over waters escape plan.  For sure it will be a long night if the drip continues because it's pretty loud and not very conducive to sleep.

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