This rude Greek man came and cut a hole in the ceiling, throwing plaster everywhere: on the tarp he laid down, on the floor that wasn't covered with tarp, and over the counter into the kitchen!
Here he is with his head in the hole he made.
He did fix the leak, which was good... after he called in backup! He had to have a second plumber come over to tell him what to do.
The second plumber was certain he'd been in our townhome before. Then he realized that he'd recently been in FOUR other townhomes in our neighborhood because of the exact same problem.
For one thing, each house should have a water pressure regulator on it. None in my row of houses has one.
For another thing, that plastic piping that you can see up there is totally illegal now. It was okay to use it when it was installed, but now it's banned because it can't handle enough water pressure. The second plumber tested the level of pressure in our house: 60 lbs. The amount of pressure those pipes can handle without leaking: 50 lbs.
Our landlady is considering getting the house re-plumbed, but she's not sure yet if she'd just prefer to keep fixing leaks for $400 a pop or pay $2000 one time and fix it for real.
We don't have to worry about it!
The neighbor 2 doors down (loose screen from screen door flapping in the wind) had a leak in about the same spot as us at the same time, but hers didn't result in just a bulge in the ceiling which was full of clean water. Nope, her dining room light fixture filled with poop water! Ewww! Hopefully her landlord has fixed that by now (but it doesn't look good since that screen is still flapping).
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