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We came home this afternoon to discover a leak in our kitchen. It was a pretty steady leak and our kitchen ceiling was wet. It eventually subsided and we asked the tenants upstairs what happened. Apparently their toilet overflowed (?!?!?) and that was the cause of the leak! In my opinion, they must have left it for quite some time for it to have caused as big of a leak as it did in my apartment. Throughout all of this, nobody from our building management or superintendent were to be found. They've not returned phone calls/texts/emails and this happened HOURS ago. I'm somewhat concerned about the integrity of our ceiling and am shocked that nobody has answered our calls. Do I just do nothing until their office reopens tomorrow morning? Or if you were in my shoes, would you call some sort of emergency repairman/plumber? I obviously do NOT want to get stuck with the bill for it. These tenants upstairs moved in recently and have been a total nightmare and I have no doubt this happened because of their own stupidity/negligence.
If the 'integrity' of your ceiling is compromised in a few hours from a leak you live in a terribly constructed apartment.
It is Sunday and most people do have the day off unless it is a true emergency which they probably consider this not to be.
Just because you do not like those who live above you does not mean they are stupid or negligent, it simply means you do not like/approve of them.
Put your complaint in writing with the date of the issue, the time it started, the time it stopped and what "damage" may have occurred; if you can take a photo and attach it. Then present that to the building management and get a signed receipt from them that they accepted your written complaint. They will do what they need to do for repairs if they do what they are supposed to legally.
last time i checked it was our superintendents job to be available 24/7 in case of an emergency. in fact, it says so on a sign in our building. the messages we've left have stated that we have water leaking into our kitchen from the apartment upstairs. they've not called us back so they don't know the extent of it, for all they know it is very bad. pretty sure big leaks and a wet cracked ceiling qualifies as an apartment emergency.
i've encountered the tenants on numerous occasions thus far, and in my opinion, do not have much common sense and are stupid. they also trashed the hallway and made gigantic holes in the wall when they moved in, rearrange furniture at 1am, refuse to get rugs but let their children throw toys at the floor until 11pm daily and BLAST their television regularly until 4am. AND it hasn't even been ONE month yet.
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Originally Posted by CSD610
If the 'integrity' of your ceiling is compromised in a few hours from a leak you live in a terribly constructed apartment.
It is Sunday and most people do have the day off unless it is a true emergency which they probably consider this not to be.
Just because you do not like those who live above you does not mean they are stupid or negligent, it simply means you do not like/approve of them.
Put your complaint in writing with the date of the issue, the time it started, the time it stopped and what "damage" may have occurred; if you can take a photo and attach it. Then present that to the building management and get a signed receipt from them that they accepted your written complaint. They will do what they need to do for repairs if they do what they are supposed to legally.
thanks for your reply. looks like i may be making a trip to home depot!
I had a water leak in one of my previous apts. When i came home i noticed that part of my stuff was drying in the yard. Inside the apt a hot air fan was humming. I moved away a few months later.
If the 'integrity' of your ceiling is compromised in a few hours from a leak you live in a terribly constructed apartment.
It is Sunday and most people do have the day off unless it is a true emergency which they probably consider this not to be.
Just because you do not like those who live above you does not mean they are stupid or negligent, it simply means you do not like/approve of them.
Put your complaint in writing with the date of the issue, the time it started, the time it stopped and what "damage" may have occurred; if you can take a photo and attach it. Then present that to the building management and get a signed receipt from them that they accepted your written complaint. They will do what they need to do for repairs if they do what they are supposed to legally.
wow what a totally useless post. The OP will never get that 20 seconds back in his life
I don't think the toilet is the source of the leak....for example if I live in 7G and you live above me in 8G, the apartments are laid out the same way. How could your toilet be leaking and you notice the source of the leak in not your bathroom ceiling, but the kitchen?? Methinks either it's the pipe from the kitchen sink, or they have a washing machine they're not supposed to have, and the hose from the washing machine overflowed the sink. I think the people that live upstairs from you have an illegal washing machine. You said it subsided, so how did they "fix" it? Lol. They probably went out, came home to a big mess in their kitchen, and turned the washing machine off, thats how it "subsided."
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the layout of their apt is different than ours, i've actually been in it. ours is a floor through, but their unit is only half of the floor above us. i hadn't thought of an illegal washing machine, i guess that is another possibility given the extent of damage. when i say i want someone to "fix" it, i mean i want my super to assess the situation upstairs and make the necessary repairs to our wet/cracked/sunken ceiling.
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Originally Posted by SeventhFloor
I don't think the toilet is the source of the leak....for example if I live in 7G and you live above me in 8G, the apartments are laid out the same way. How could your toilet be leaking and you notice the source of the leak in not your bathroom ceiling, but the kitchen?? Methinks either it's the pipe from the kitchen sink, or they have a washing machine they're not supposed to have, and the hose from the washing machine overflowed the sink. I think the people that live upstairs from you have an illegal washing machine. You said it subsided, so how did they "fix" it? Lol. They probably went out, came home to a big mess in their kitchen, and turned the washing machine off, thats how it "subsided."
the layout of their apt is different than ours, i've actually been in it. ours is a floor through, but their unit is only half of the floor above us. i hadn't thought of an illegal washing machine, i guess that is another possibility given the extent of damage. when i say i want someone to "fix" it, i mean i want my super to assess the situation upstairs and make the necessary repairs to our wet/cracked/sunken ceiling.
When I was referring to "fixing" it, I meant how did the leak eventually stop. How many units in your building?
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