Well life back on the mountain after being away for 7 weeks
is bound to have something come up and make it a disaster. And you guessed it,
it happened to us. Now I was out at the cafe having lunch with friends and Gobey
came past to eat before heading to the house to get a coffee before work. He
hadn’t been gone 5 minutes before he was calling to say I had to go home there
was water in the kitchen and I needed to mop it up. So with that Gobey picked
me up and took me home, to where I find the biggest puddle of water in the
kitchen and he telling me that wasn’t that big 5 minutes ago. As we live on a
slope all the water was heading to the back door. I opened the door to find
water everywhere and coming from the maids room. I open the door only to be
meeting by inches of water pissing through the light in the bathroom. I call to Gobey and tell him all the ladies
are across the hall and to tell Ina she has a leak. Everyone is running around
trying to catch water, shift the water we have and get all our bags and boxes
out of the maid’s room. Ina comes back and it’s not her house that is leaking.
Damaris has checked her maids room to find that it also is in inches of water.
Gobey hasn’t gone back to work and is now on the hunt to get into the apartment
above Damaris as thats the only other place that the water must be coming from.
As the apartment is empty, trying to get in is isn’t hard, which I found the
easiest way to get in was through the window by removing the bug shield and
pushing. The windows out here and so cheap, thats why we now have bars on all
ours so no one can break in. Once we got inside the water was everywhere. FM
had came in the morning to replace the dishwasher but hadn’t checked the water
connections, so for the guts of 4 hours the water had been filling up ours and
Darmis’s apartment. Talk about a bad Tuesday morning.
So after spending almost 3 hours cleaning up, mopping up and
chucking out water it has finally stopped coming through the ceiling. Gobey hasn’t
gone back to work. We are waiting on FM to arrive and see what damage they have
caused, but I won’t be holding my breath.
When FM finally got to our house it turns out we need a new carpet,
dishwasher and a fridge/freezer. The water had destroyed my maids room from the
bathroom right though to my kitchen. Now we are on the middle floor and I would
have hated to see what the place under us looked like. They were on leave and I
don’t think FM would have been into their house to check it out.
But not to worry when FM finally arrive with my new
dishwasher and fridge , we are now the coolest cats it town. Brand new quite
dishwasher and the nicest, biggest fridge/freezer with built in ice maker (for
both cubed and crushed) and a water filter. No one else we know has these new
machines. We are very lucky to get this. Our small apartment is staying to look like our
home, well the good fridge anyway. Now we can’t wait to have friends over to
show off.
