Water damage

[bktheirregular]

I am so not looking forward to going home to my apartment after work today. One corner of my living-room floor has been torn up, revealing three layers of water-damaged wood - the parquet, which wasn't glued into place but rather nailed down, and below that some planks to nail the parquet to, and beams to distribute the load of the planks, and below that the concrete of the building structure.

Over in that corner, the concrete's been exposed.

And it's going to have to stay like that for a week and a half, to dry out before an engineer can test where the water's getting into the walls. Oy, the walls. I'm scared to see how much damage has been done to them.

And repairs to the torn-up floor? I shudder to think. The parquet and substructure in that corner are unsalvageable - the plumber was going at them with a chisel and sledge.

I wouldn't be surprised if the repairs take a month or more.

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[weirdweb.livejournal.com]

Oh, holy crap. I've finally just gotten caught up on all this. I am so sorry.

And I'm confused: how do they expect it to dry out if they don't know where the water's coming from? Obviously they're not going to shut off water to the building for a week, and the source might just keep on soaking the concrete.

[bktheirregular]

The source isn't a water pipe; since I'm on the top floor, there's only a limited number of pipes to check, and none of them are it. It's probably rain from the roof, and since the rainy season's largely over with, that's easy enough to isolate...