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: 2008-12-08 03:15 am (UTC)We have now noticed that there are water trails on the wall behind the pipe and are unusre if this is a new development or was going on. I felt them -- all but one is dry, so I do think it's the "small lake of radiator" coming down as it can.
The water is grisly -- light to very dark brown, but ther'es clearly no sewage involved. It's rust/dirt and possibly soot.
I'm going to call the management company again tomorrow at 9am, as I'd like to get this dealt with ASAP and suspect they may need some prodding.
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Date: 2008-12-08 03:35 am (UTC)The good news about that is that the seriously hard and filthy water inside a radiator is actually less likely to grow mold and mildew in many cases; the stuff's not quite poisonous but at least a deterrent.
Absolutely nag them first thing in the morning. Your call on whether they will react more quickly to "I'm pretty sure it's the radiator" or "I don't know but it's gross and might be sewage and it might make us sick, you have to stop this".
Fingers crossed for a quick and easy fix.