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The portal returns
Oct. 1st, 2008 01:01 pmWhitney woke me up this morning asking me what the distant 'dinging' noise could be. Because I have to get up a full hour earlier than her, I just rolled over and went back to sleep - I couldn't hear anything. But when she went through to the bathroom it became obvious that the noise was in fact bits of plaster falling away from the ceiling and striking the taps.
I did put up some duct tape to try and hold it in place so that we could shower, but total collapse was to follow shortly. Here are a couple of photos to illustrate the new situation:
The ceiling
Where the ceiling should be
This afternoon, one of the building management people came round to look at it and agreed with my initial assessment of our builder as "stupid" - he's now going to send somebody else round to put an actual board up so that even if there is a leak (which there is) it won't come down while they look for it.
And the superintendent turned on the shower to check it and was sprayed sideways in the face, so we're getting a new showerhead as well.
I did put up some duct tape to try and hold it in place so that we could shower, but total collapse was to follow shortly. Here are a couple of photos to illustrate the new situation:
The ceiling
Where the ceiling should be
This afternoon, one of the building management people came round to look at it and agreed with my initial assessment of our builder as "stupid" - he's now going to send somebody else round to put an actual board up so that even if there is a leak (which there is) it won't come down while they look for it.
And the superintendent turned on the shower to check it and was sprayed sideways in the face, so we're getting a new showerhead as well.
