Weekend a few weeks ago..
A few weeks ago, on Sunday, we came back from the flea markets and it was a good Sunday out with more than 11k steps (go me!) which was a happy day in general. We had good weather, I gained at least 1 shade of colour on my skin, and the best thing was that I also scored two nice (cheap) things. No that's a lie, the best thing was that we had a really nice day out of the house!
The evening balanced out the good..
Our daughter was just in her bed when I suddenly heard my boyfriend shout "How did this happen, wtf, how did I manage to do this?" but he didn't answer what he did so I had no clue what he was talking about until he said "I need your help". I came to the small bathroom/toilet and saw the floor filled with water. Oh no...
That toilet has a cistern and it's "floating" about 15 cm from the wall. He accidentally leaned to the back and then the whole thing came off. The plastic screws inside broke and all water from the cistern was now on the floor but the water also kept running so he needed to close the tap quickly. While I held the thing in place, he grabbed his tools and a bit later the water stopped running. This toilet was out of order. I actually put a piece of paper stating that on the toilet door as well to make sure he would not accidentally use it again until it was fixed.
Easy and cheap fix!
The only thing needed to fix this were a few screws and I went online to check which of the construction markets sold them because the one nearest to us doesn't have the same items. I took the screws with me and a link to the needed item and dropped off the little one at school to continue my drive to the construction market where I found the screws needed for just €2,30. With my guy fixing it himself the water incident ended up being a minor inconvenience instead of a true issue needing a plumber. Great! I love it when something seems horrible at first but turns out to be not that big of a deal.
The second incident
This one was a bit worse, especially for our downstairs neighbour as he's the one dealing with water damage, we are only dealing with a remaining smelly scent as no water is currently running through the big bathroom's pipes. What happened?
I let our daughter sit in bath to play for a bit after I washed her hair as she often asks me but usually she does that when it's already getting late so then I put her under the shower to be done with it and dry her hair to get her in bed quicker. This time it was early and I already had dinner ready so all went smooth. Time to let her enjoy the bath for a bit.
When pulling out the plug that smell I hate so much (it happened once before) appeared and I knew instantly my feet were going to get wet because the floor was flooded. It was about a month ago (I think) when it happened and I totally forgot about it afterwards as she didn't sit in the bath anymore since. Also, we thought that the first incident was caused by some blockage which was removed at the time. I guess that was not the main issue.
Wet floor
The floor in the bathroom was wet but not as bad as the previous time when we had the water running through the hallway into the direction of the kitchen! I thought this was because this time my boyfriend was there to fix it sooner and he knew where to look this time, looking back it was not getting as wet because the downstairs neighbour was taking the hit, ouch.
I was already drying my daughter's hair when the doorbell rang and the guy from downstairs said his bathroom was flooded (it really was worse even on the floor than it was here) so my boyfriend went to check it and take pictures to contact our landlady. What a shame for him because he has such a nice home, it must feel extra shit when something like this happens, our bathroom looks horrible compared to his, lol. But with a bat tub having rusty parts it was clear that there has been little maintenance in this bathroom so the tubing probably sucks as well.
Insurance
This is of course insurance work and looking at the bath in that bathroom this may be a bigger issue than they now think. Many things have already been fixed and or replaced but remembering the faulty electrical stuff not working properly I wonder if we are in for a bigger treat soon.
For the leakage insurance has been notified and thankfully we have another bathroom we can use but every time I open the water in the kitchen I now worry that our neighbour runs above to mention that this is leaking as well, while I have so much to do this week in terms of tidying up the house. I hope insurance appears soon (which I don't expect, this is Spain) and that the fixing will happen soon because I can't imagine it will be a quick and easy fix.
Update
The insurance guy visited us last week, as suspected a new bath tub needed because the rust turns out to have holes in it already. They came to check what the repair would cost a few days later, we suspect this is not covered by insurance and will be paid by the landlady. Thankfully there was some good news too because we can use the sink as well as toilet without worrying that water will end up in the bathroom of our downstairs neighbour.
I can only hope that they will come to fix it within the next weeks as we suspect it will be a bit of an inconvenience and we hope to have it repaired before one heatwave after the other hits our home. The tiny bathroom has very low water pressure but it's better than nothing.
We've been through worse..
Let's say that us having a spare bathroom we can use is nothing compared to the challenge we had last year in the other apartment where we didn't have any water for close to a month. This too shall pass and I just hope for the neighbour things will be fixed rather quickly.
Have you ever had any water damage in your home? Was it coming from your home or were you the "lucky" one receiving the damage from another apartment? Was insurance fixing things within reasonable time frames or did they leave you hanging? Let me know in the comments below if you want to share..
Wishing you a good day/night, I'm heading to bed!
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How are you doing today? I hope no more water nightmares?
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Hey sorry have to catch up after I closed the computer early yesterday. Today was another shitty morning with my back.. frustrating!
They came to do a temp fix in the bath so we can use it so that's nice :)
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Sore day for me too... I hope your back is doing a little better. It's nice that they fixed the bath for the moment until they can replace it. It's just too bad that the materials they use to make things today are so poor quality, lot of cheap plastic! I hope the AC is at least working!
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Oh sucks, hopefully tomorrow is a better day for you!
I'm happy that we don't have a normal day, it will be a dentist visit for the regular check up and kid is home from school so we don't have to worry about traffic and stressing to get back.
The AC is really good so it seems, but as I mentioned, the real tests with those are in July/Aug lol. So far it seems a good one so I'm very content.
The bath is actually great to have a temp fix because the other bathroom is so tiny and narrow that I prefer going in the bigger one. I mean I was happy that we had another one but this is better, just a bit scared that the neighbour ends up having another water ballet downstairs. Fingers crossed, gonna test it in the morning :)
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It's the planetary alignments or something. Sorry for your troubles! Weird things just seem to be happening to everyone lately. I've had a few misadventures myself this week. It all works out in the end I guess. 🙃
Must be some storm coming lol.. I'm just happy it happened in this home where we have 2 bathrooms, if we weren't able to shower for so many weeks, with these temperatures, it would have been different. Probably still worse for the downstairs neighbour though..
Let's hope we have calm following weeks lol..
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The first scenario is kinda funny how it happened. Plastic everything now a days. You got really lucky on the second one, as bad as it was, it could’ve been much worse.
I did a total bathroom gut a year ago for someone because the entire ceiling from their living room came down from leaking walls in the tub/shower. There was so much black mold it was nuts.
The first scenario is what seems to be the norm nowadays, I mean moving countries and houses quite a bit in the past decade, I've seen a huge decline and we can be grateful for our landlady to order a new airco recently while we patiently wait for her to fix all the blinds because they have broken down one by one. Why? Simply because they can't take this much wind, she needs to pay up and buy quality, which is probably where the issue lays.
It would not surprise me if in the end our ceiling does the same because we too have water damage (older issues before we moved in) and I notice more wet spots every month even though the weather is getting hot already, which normally would dry things up. I don't even want to know how bad it really is, lol.
This is not an exception, the only luck we have in this home is that we have windows in all rooms (besides bathrooms) and we can open them together so there's airflow, which was not the case in the old home so at least we have that ;)
Doesn't help for moldy build-in wardrobes and kitchen cabinets though, I think I discovered another leaking sink in the kitchen today (not big but it's there) and I'm afraid to tell her but she knows because I see they have patched it up several times already (for real).
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Lamento mucho la situación, aunque veo que la has manejado bien, en mi casa hemos tenido problemas con las tuberías pero más con el agua que se drena y entiendo lo frustrante que son más reparaciones y los olores, ojalá pronto ya tengan la solución.
What an adventure! We've all been through those disasters before... Fortunately last time it happened to a water heater and I was in an upstairs apartment. I'm glad to insurance people showed up quick though so hopefully the repairs can be made quickly.
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I am very sorry for what happened and I hope it will never happen again. I'm glad you are handling it well. Anyway, the most important thing is your physical integrity. Cheers and best regards.
Ooof. I'm glad you had the insurance, but what a flipping nightmare! I'm just thinking of all the buckets of water you must've had to mop up from these incidents 😣
It sounds as if the neighbor is cool at least, and you have a positive attitude... but shucks, I sure hope this is resolved for you soon!
Been off for a while, was nice to take in your sunny perspective again! You rock at making the best of tough stuff 💚
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The landlady had the insurance, as it's her apartment, I guess it's a good thing she's well insured because too many things keep popping up (not all due to her lack of maintenance btw, mostly due to the community's lack of funds).
My boyfriend is always very quick to get rid of the water, he tells me to get the stuff needed and then handles it because if I slip, I will probably end up having more physical issues. For our neighbour it was worse for sure!
He's very kind indeed and yesterday the insurance guys came and put an easy temporary fix in the bath so we can use it until it's replaced. Already tested it and no one knocked on the door for water damage, so I guess it's done well :)
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Oh thanks be to God that you were able to help him out. I could imagine how flooded the bathroom was.
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I can relate to this. In our previous home we never had water running in the house, it was terrible. We had to go out of the compound to get water into our home.
Now that we always have running water in the house, I don't want to ever be in a situation where we wouldn't have water running in the house.
I hope your insurance comes through and the issue gets fixed.