Friday morning
Oct. 22nd, 2010 08:57![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
mapsedgeI will pointedly avoid saying, "I told you so." MoneyGuy will undoubtedly fail to notice this.
Like many small Offices, there is no single room in our half of the building that is the "utilities" room, where the furnace, a/c, water heater, et al live. The builder who assembled it all hid those pieces of infrastructure in the attic or cabinets in each of the offices.
For instance, the water heater for the front of our Office is in MoneyGuy's office, in a cabinet under a bar sink. There has been a leak in the plumbing under there for months. I know this because my office is right next to his, and a sweatshirt that got left in the adjoining corner overnight was sodden by the next morning.
This was back in March.
I showed him. I said, "You have a leak in the plumbing under your sink."
He looked at my sweatshirt. He looked under his sink. He said, "It's just coming up through the slab. It'll dry out."
This morning, the carpet is so wet it splashes when you walk on it. The carpet in my office is wet, though not as splashy. The water is turned off to that location. There is a fairly steady dripping stream of water coming from the water heater and no way to deliberately drain it. We can only cope by putting a basin there and emptying it every hour or so until the tank is empty.
MoneyGuy is out of town until Monday. He'll come back to a nasty surprise.
Like many small Offices, there is no single room in our half of the building that is the "utilities" room, where the furnace, a/c, water heater, et al live. The builder who assembled it all hid those pieces of infrastructure in the attic or cabinets in each of the offices.
For instance, the water heater for the front of our Office is in MoneyGuy's office, in a cabinet under a bar sink. There has been a leak in the plumbing under there for months. I know this because my office is right next to his, and a sweatshirt that got left in the adjoining corner overnight was sodden by the next morning.This was back in March.
I showed him. I said, "You have a leak in the plumbing under your sink."
He looked at my sweatshirt. He looked under his sink. He said, "It's just coming up through the slab. It'll dry out."
This morning, the carpet is so wet it splashes when you walk on it. The carpet in my office is wet, though not as splashy. The water is turned off to that location. There is a fairly steady dripping stream of water coming from the water heater and no way to deliberately drain it. We can only cope by putting a basin there and emptying it every hour or so until the tank is empty.
MoneyGuy is out of town until Monday. He'll come back to a nasty surprise.