Sectorgame

It started in August 2006 that people kept coming to bug me about my bathroom because the tenant at the floor below me complaint about the leak from his bathroom ceiling. I got people knocking on my door twice in the middle of the night (once at 11-ish and once around 10) asking if I would let them in to check on my bathroom floor (doh, of course I didn't let them in! Who did they think they were?) A plumber came by a month later (during the day) to re-sealed the bath tub edges.

Just as I thought it was over, because for the whole month of October I didn't hear anything from the landlord or plumber (besides occasional metal banging sound from downstairs), I was told that they wanted to dig up my bathroom floor to fix the leak. What leak??! The same one??!! Yes, the same leak!

The building assistant manager asked me to leave my keys with the doorman and my permission to access my apartment (apparently someone lost the spare ones and no one knew when or how it happened). So I left the key with the doorman (the retarded Warren) at 6:45am the next day before I left for work. Guess what? By the time I got home, I saw a nasty note on my door saying that I was holding up a very important plumbing job that people were trying to do because they did not have my keys to access my apartment!

(Well, the worst is about to come) A day after thing mess was clearified, I got home around 6:30pm, I found my apartment unlocked, stuff was moved (didn't look like anything was taken) and all the light in my apartment was switched on (brighter than Santa's house)!!

I called the doorman immediately to find out what was going on, but guess what he said? "Calm down m'am. I left your apartment unlocked so people could go in..." with his cool confident voice. I was very upset, very very upset the way he talked to me. It was bad enough that he was confident about his idea of leaving my apartment unlocked, but the worst is, he didn't even know how many plumbers stopped by, when did they stop by or leave!

I decided to talk to the building manager the next day, him too sounded like an jackass. I nearly hired an attorney to talk to them for me. Anyway, to cut the long story short, my bathroom was demolished over the holidays and I lived in my unit without a functioning toilet, tub and sink for 10 days! I am just glad it's useable again, on Monday and here are a few pictures I want to show you guys

Old bathroom Started cracking... Toilet in the tub... Big mess... New tiles... New bathroom

I' trying really hard not to laugh but that bog in the tub is so funny. Use it as your avatar.

Nice. So how did you manage without a bathroom? I could barely manage one day.

Hunter wrote:Nice. So how did you manage without a bathroom? I could barely manage one day.

Bucket & sink?

Ugh. I'd not be able to leave my keys to some fool where I keep all of my possessions. And I'd be just as pissed as you about the treatment you got. The "new" bathroom isnt worth the risk of all those asshats robbing you or breaking things while you're away. >.'.<

Yep, I can see it now... WF rushing next door jumping up and down holding her stomach. "Er... can I use your toilet??"

Hunter wrote:Yep, I can see it now... WF rushing next door jumping up and down holding her stomach. "Er... can I use your toilet??"

Surely more like "Let me into the ####### toilet NOW, you ######## #######, or I'll piss all over your ####### floor!!!!"

Ah. Evidentally you've met her before then?

karajorma wrote:Ah. Evidentally you've met her before then?

I'm still mopping up.

Tarry, I wish you were with me then, at least they wouldn't think I was just a tiny Asian girl whose voice so soft and didn't speak English.

I ended up guarding my apartment everyday throughout the entire time while work was being done. The building manager gave me a key to a vacant unit at 6th floor so I could use the bathroom. It was a pain in the neck for me to go to the bathroom in the middle of the night because by the time I finished my business, I could never fall back to sleep. It's very annoying.

Fortunately, the plumber was very kind, polite and understanding. He called me every morning before he came over and kept me informed about the work progress. He also explained the problems that causing the leak and how the new pipe system would work (which is something he absolutely did not have to do - to report to me). Anyway, he's very nice dude.

Now I have a new floor, sink, vanity cabinet and toliet in my bathroom. The new sink is still leaking and the plumber will have to come back to fix that at some point.

Sounds like a big kerfuffle. =o

Speaking of bathrooms though, excuse me...

Toilet in teh bathtub! That's where I've been going wrong, geez....

d3jake wrote:Toilet in teh bathtub! That's where I've been going wrong, geez....

Why, have you been bathing in the toilet?

Umm.... maybe... >.>

I guess I can probably smell you from far away...