So my dorm room is currently in the process of flooding. There is approximately 1/4" of water on the floor which seems to be the highest it can get due to the drain in the bathroom. The only casuality so far seems to be my roomies graphing calculator. If I had been sleeping at the time the water would have came right down on my face! Updates will follow.
Oh yeah shit fuck cunt bitch whore ass.
Hey don’t complain - you get new carpets now, right?
So did maintenance ever shut off the water?
Carpets? Ha we don’t get carpets.
Apparently there was a 2" pipe that had a rubber dealie fail in a dieletic join (I dunno if thats right spelling just what maintence guy told me) on the top floor (13th) directly above me. Apparently the roof collapsed on the room directly underneath the leak which I must say would be a rude awakening on a monday morning. No major damage from the flood just some soggy bedding and clothing which they are going to wash for us! I am certainly happy I wouldn’t mind a flood every week or so if it meant I got my laundry done for free.
They came around with the equivilent of a shop vac and pumped the water out of our room so we are pretty much all back to normal. Roomies calculator has made a full recovery.
Ah, brings back memories. About 8 or 9 years ago I was subletting an apartment in Vancouver and noticed one day a discoloured bulge in my ceiling.
(Related tip: if that ever happens to you and you have stucco ceilings, don’t poke it.)
We escaped with nothing more than wet carpet; it sounds like you got off lightly too.
That was also the apartment where the day we moved out we discovered, while doing one last load of laundry in the in-suite washing machine, that the water intake pipe wasn’t actually connected to the washing machine in any way. The water intake was just a flexible pipe resting in a socket on the washing machine, and every time we had used it the water pressure had forced the pipe out of its socket a little bit more…
Err when I say directly above me I mean 5 floors directly above me. Twas quite a bit of water it was flowing pretty good down the stairwell even that far from the source. I wonder how much ended up pooling on the first floor.
NOOOO! NOT LITTLE LINUS!!
Funny that a post about this would draw me out of eternal lurking, but here goes:
In my first year of University (in Vancouver as well, ironically enough), someone had gone into the bathroom in the center of the 4th floor of the residence and kicked one of the bathroom pipes, which proceeded to explode and pour more water than I knew could come out of a pipe all over the floor. By the time the water was shut off (this started at a convienient 2 or 3 in the morning, of course), the water had already cascaded down 2 floors, and over to the next adjacent sections of the building.
Fast forward 2 weeks: They replaced nothing, and just set up huge fans to “dry” the carpet that ran the course of the hallways. To say it smelt bad would definately be an understatement.
Further experiences with water in residence were equally as bad, a friend of mine’s sprinkler head exploded at around 1 am, prompting a midnight move of 4 people in the freezing cold, alarms blazing and all.
Of course, I completely forgot to mention anything about the OP.
That sucks, but at least your stuff didn’t get ruined! What caused the leak?
And to curse, this being the fuckin’ Pit and all.
I just talked to a maintence guy in passing but it sounds like there is some sort of rubber seal in a dieletic joint that failed.
Sage advice, just 15 years too late.
My buddies and I were on vacation and staying at a Nassau hotel. The first thing we noticed upon entering the room was a large, discolored bulge in the ceiling. Naturally we said “What’s that?” and proceded to poke. A 2 foot hole magically opened in the ceiling and unleashed a flood of water. We called the front desk and they sent maintenance up to investigate. His first question was “Did you poke it?” In wide eyed innocence, we said “No, Sir. Only a dummy would poke at a bulging ceiling”. We got a new room.