"You know that money you were saving for a rainy day?"

[bktheirregular]

Plumber comes by this morning and immediately starts prying up the parquet in my living-room floor with a hammer and chisel. The parquet planks are water-damaged underneath.

So are the support planks under them.

And the support beams under *them*.

Maybe a leak in the pipe to the spigot on the veranda? But if so, then logically, I should have seen it in my water bill, which has been pretty much negligible for the past six months or so. The only place where massive water can have come from is the rains we've been having this winter. Which probably means the drain from the roof has sprung a leak. Or there's something that's gone wrong in the roof itself.

So, the leak needs to be fixed, but it needs to be found first. Then I've got about twenty percent of my living-room floor ripped up that needs to be repaired - the plumber suggested tile for the whole floor, but that's a non-starter for me - but before the ruined parquet can be replaced, the support beams and planks need to be replaced as well.

This shows every sign of being a bad week.

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[thanatos-kalos.livejournal.com]

::hugs:: Here's hoping the leak can be found quickly and easily!

[bktheirregular]

Hope springs eternal, but the initial findings are not promising. They ripped up a couple of square meters of flooring and tore away the wood supports, down to the structural concrete, and say that it needs to dry for about ten days before they pour water onto the roof and see where the water's getting into the walls. Then maybe discussions can be held on replacing the destroyed flooring. Plumber who looked for leaks in the pipes advocated tile flooring for the entire living room; I think maybe he's got tile flooring on the brain or something.

:(