Two days ago I went to take a shower in the downstairs bathroom and found that I was getting wet before I even turned on the water. Water was dripping from the ceiling from the vent above the bathtub. Not good.
I looked into it a little bit and thought it might have been the toilet upstairs. I found a small leak there, and patched it, and thought I might have fixed the problem.
Yesterday the same thing happened… Water still dripping from the ceiling. Only this time I found the problem… actually two… the valve to the bathtub upstairs was leaking, and it was running down the wall into a hole at the spigot, down the wall, landing on the ceiling of the downstairs bathroom, running downhill to the easiest point of exit, the air vent. As a result the whole ceiling is soggy, molding, and developing a pungent aroma.
A plumber came this morning to investigate and see what could be done, and he knocked a hole in the ceiling to get a peek as to what is going on. Sure enough, same diagnosis… water from the bathtub upstairs. He was going to charge a fortune to fix it, so my landlords let him go and will be fixing it themselves.
In the mean time I still have a wet, dripping hole in my bathroom ceiling. It’s pretty gross.
