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rflong ([personal profile] rflong) wrote2007-07-31 10:29 am
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And the chaos keeps on mounting...

I mentioned in the last post that I was going to have a shower and go to bed. Well, I tried, but as I showered, my husband came thundering up the stairs to tell me to turn it off as water was coming through the ceiling into the kitchen! 

Oh yes.

What ever muppet (and I use the term without affection) put the bath in tiled UNDER the bath seal so that the water runs down the grouting lines and has been building up under the floor boards in the ceiling above my new cooker!  When we poked at the ceiling the other day, we knocked a hole in it, giving the water somewhere to go and now cannot use the shower.

We can have a bath if we don't splash too much. It's going to make the kids a little less fragrant! :D

Seriously though, have we just discovered that we have in fact moved into the Moneypit? 

It's just a case of taking off a line of tiles, redoing the seal and then re-tiling, hopefully in a tile that matches, but frankly I don't care right now!

The flash at LH appears to be going down very well which is good. I subbed my next chapter of May Queen to the crit group last night and got one back already! Yay! Haven't really done much else. Very lazy these days.

[identity profile] gabriel-writes.livejournal.com 2007-07-31 12:42 pm (UTC)(link)
Ouch on the tiling problem. Is their evidence that this was a problem before that the previous owners knew about. If so, you might have some recourse.

Unfortunately, most houses are a money pit, no matter how you look at them. Will you have to remove the tub?

Good luck with it.

Congrats on your story's success. I had a tough time with this trigger and it shows.

-Abby

[identity profile] kara-gnome.livejournal.com 2007-07-31 02:28 pm (UTC)(link)
Oh, man! Money pit, indeed. And it's not just that, it's the hassle, the cheat, the--the water! What a mess, I really feel for you.