I'm Dripping

Yes I am dripping and no not like that you dirty boy!

Yesterday afternoon a steady drip appeared in the downstairs bathroom ceiling, naturally this is casue for concern as we really don't need a flooded downstairs. In addition to this of course we had to chase two junkies out fo the building and we had both families over for dinner last night too..

However the plumber came again this morning and tore a dirty great big hole in the ceiling. His veridict is that a fire sprinkler pipe has sprung a leak, something he cannot fix. Instead the fire services company has to come out, flush the entire system, make the repair and then repressurise the system.

This apparently is not a small piece of work, and requires someone to investigate the problem (again) and then for the relevant materials, workers to be ordered.

As usual my dealings with contractors under these sorts of circumstances are mixed. Whilst everyone that has come out has been professional and polite, getting things to actually happen is always a chore and I have had to pull rank a few times.

I have learnt a valuable lesson early in life that being nice in these sorts of situations always gets more done. However being nice can be seen as either a soft touch, or the person on the end of the telephone infers that the problem is not serious.

Being the head of the body corporate does have it's advantages, one of which being I know all the staff of the Strata Company. It does however also have it's drawbacks, in that I can't scream at them when they forget to fax the work order over for six hours, yes I mean that they forgot to approve the contractors for six hours.

*sigh*

so I have worked from home today and by the looks of it I will have to be home again tomorrow. Well at least the dog is happy!

2:33:00 PM