apartment maitenance
Dec. 7th, 2008 05:38 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
rmWe have water dripping from our ceiling around the radiator/heating pipe in the living room. I'd say about 2 drops a second from the main location, another location that drips a bit, and the ocassional rivulet coming down the pipe as well. Filled up 3/4 of a spaghetti sauce jar in about 3 hours. From the looks of things (we came home from the weekend and noticed dirty water stripes on the pipe) this has been going on to some degree all weekend.
I've called the management company, but the odds of getting a response tonight are low.
Patty is going upstairs to try to talk to the neighbors, who may not speak English to see if they have a dripping radiator that's then coming down into our place. (ETA: they aren't home, we're going to put a note under their door).
How concerned should I be, in terms of floor/ceiling stability? Is this just one of those things that I shouldn't worry about? We've had our radiator in that room drip lots of water before, but it was clearly just our unit, not stuff coming through the ceiling from the apartment above.
What else can we do until we hopefully hear from these people tomorrow?
Is there any reason calling 311 (local NYC complaint/information line for those not from here) would help?
And no, I have no way of contacting our super.
I've called the management company, but the odds of getting a response tonight are low.
Patty is going upstairs to try to talk to the neighbors, who may not speak English to see if they have a dripping radiator that's then coming down into our place. (ETA: they aren't home, we're going to put a note under their door).
How concerned should I be, in terms of floor/ceiling stability? Is this just one of those things that I shouldn't worry about? We've had our radiator in that room drip lots of water before, but it was clearly just our unit, not stuff coming through the ceiling from the apartment above.
What else can we do until we hopefully hear from these people tomorrow?
Is there any reason calling 311 (local NYC complaint/information line for those not from here) would help?
And no, I have no way of contacting our super.
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Date: 2008-12-07 11:44 pm (UTC)He said similar happened last winter, and a small chunk of plaster peeled away from the ceiling just this past week.
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Date: 2008-12-07 11:56 pm (UTC)So I'm guessing this isn't urgent, and I probably didn't even need to call the mgmt company (which I try to avoid doing), but since they are generally unresponsive, that's probably moot.
Hopefully the upstairs neighbors will answer our note.
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Date: 2008-12-08 12:01 am (UTC)I believe yesterday when the landlady and the handyman came to assess the damage, they went to the upstairs apartment to talk to them about their heat.