Our New Dining Room

On Monday we had a knock on our door. The maintenance guys told us they needed to check our place out to see if a leak on the neighbor's side was actually coming from our side. Well, sure enough it was--it was coming from our bathtub drains! I know there probably is never a convenient time or a time that I would voluntarily want to have this intrusion, but NOW was REALLY not a good time.

We live in tight quarters. What that means is that we have to use every available space for storage...so moving out our dining room is not as simple as moving a table and a few chairs. Oh! and I forgot to mention that just a few weeks ago we had already moved ALL the furniture/stuff out because they just laid the new floors? We had just gotten everything put back together!

Well, the guys came and jack-hammered our new floor up--only about a foot from the wall. They spent all day fixing the leak and left after they poured the cement back in. They told us that they would be back in a few days (once the cement dried) to finish putting it all back together. As he was walking out, he mumbled something about "unless there was another leak that pops up". Well, guess what popped up? Yesterday OUR side flooded. So now we had another mess on top of a mess. The guy came back out and made sure the water was shut off. He said he would be back today to get it all fixed.

So today they jack-hammered some more until the hole is as big as you see in the picture. I forgot to mention that they never sealed off the area, so all the dust and mold, etc. was blown up and into the air for us all to enjoy. By Monday evening--just a few hours of all the dust blowing--we were sick. Yesterday Niah had to skip volleyball practice because we are miserable.

I am ready for this to be over, but it will probably be about a month before we can stop eating in our living room. They are going to have to relay the floor which means at some point we will have to move EVERYTHING (not just the dinning room) back out again so they can redo the floors. The next few weeks will be challenging for sure. I guess I am in need of some more character building!