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I was getting ready to go to bed last night when I heard a sound like water pouring from a tap into a bathtub. It was coming from my microwave.
Needless to say, this is not a sound my microwave typically makes. We unplugged it and pulled it out from the wall. The noise continued. I set about emptying items from the adjoining cupboard while the GC went around the island (the microwave is set into an interior wall) to check out the closet on the other side.
"Did you hear anything?" I asked.
"No," came the reply.
So I went around for a look myself. Not only did I definitely hear the something, but...
Well.
What this picture doesn't capture is the speed at which the drops were coming down from the ceiling, and the inch of standing water on the floor.
As this seemed, shall we say, less than ideal, the GC put in a maintenance request. When I learned he had put it in as an urgent plumbing issue, I put my own in: an emergency electrical issue, fortified with words like "flowing water" and "high voltage electricity" and multiple photographs of the above. And then we took bets on whether the building would do anything about it.
They didn't, until this afternoon, at which point they had to do an emergency shut off of the electricity to the tower because the electrical box and all the wiring behind the wall were, indeed, submerged in water. "It's a good thing nothing sparked or caught on fire with all that water in there," Maintenance Dude apparently told the GC, oblivious to the fact that we were a good 12+ hours ahead of of anyone else on that concern.
But, hurrah. The power is back on, the water has been stopped, and the wall has been plastered back up, all without anything sparking or catching fire.
これで以上です。
Needless to say, this is not a sound my microwave typically makes. We unplugged it and pulled it out from the wall. The noise continued. I set about emptying items from the adjoining cupboard while the GC went around the island (the microwave is set into an interior wall) to check out the closet on the other side.
"Did you hear anything?" I asked.
"No," came the reply.
So I went around for a look myself. Not only did I definitely hear the something, but...
Well.
What this picture doesn't capture is the speed at which the drops were coming down from the ceiling, and the inch of standing water on the floor.
As this seemed, shall we say, less than ideal, the GC put in a maintenance request. When I learned he had put it in as an urgent plumbing issue, I put my own in: an emergency electrical issue, fortified with words like "flowing water" and "high voltage electricity" and multiple photographs of the above. And then we took bets on whether the building would do anything about it.
They didn't, until this afternoon, at which point they had to do an emergency shut off of the electricity to the tower because the electrical box and all the wiring behind the wall were, indeed, submerged in water. "It's a good thing nothing sparked or caught on fire with all that water in there," Maintenance Dude apparently told the GC, oblivious to the fact that we were a good 12+ hours ahead of of anyone else on that concern.
But, hurrah. The power is back on, the water has been stopped, and the wall has been plastered back up, all without anything sparking or catching fire.
これで以上です。
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I'm so glad you weren't hurt!
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Thank GOODNESS nothing more serious happened.
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Just glad you're okay. ♥
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Thanks for the relief on our behalf!
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But yes, agreed, why would you put those things so close together?!