Wednesday, April 11, 2007

wet, wet, wet

Got back home from work today to find the kitchen covered in water – on the shelves, on the counter, all over the floor. Rushing upstairs to find out what had happened, I found out that the person living in the unit above had his toilet overflow and caused a big flood on the second floor as well. There was a cleaning crew here to clean the mess on the second floor, so I asked them to bring their wet-vac down and clean up downstairs as well. They're still mopping up, but I've asked them to leave a fan for me so that I can make sure the floorboards dry out and hopefully don't get mouldy or mildewy from being soaked.

From what I've been able to determine, plumbers were here earlier to fix the pipes, but there's still a few drips, and the water leakage has also extended to the windows in the living area. My credenza is all wet, but luckily, the water hasn't touched any of the electronic equipment sitting on top (at least not that I've noticed so far).

I've had to throw away a lot of food that was on my shelves and on the counter (having an overflowing toilet spill over your kitchen doesn't exactly make you want to consume any food that's been soaked by it), and am still in the process of cleaning up. Luckily, one of my neighbours across the hall had a key and was able to let the cleaners into my unit before I arrived
home from work, otherwise, i'm sure there would have been a significant amount more damage to the unit and my stuff.

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