Return of the walls have leaks

The maintenance men came this morning and took the patch off the wall, only to discover that one of the other valves inside was leaking. (Not nearly as bad as the last time, but still, they didn't want to seal it up like that.) They couldn't get the plumber to come today, so they're supposed to come back with him tomorrow, and once he fixes the new leak they'll start working on the walls. Chances are they won't be able to do it in one day, but I really need to use the kitchen on Friday, so they'll most likely be coming back to finish the work on Monday. Hopefully we won't hit any more snags.

In the meantime I remembered late last night that we were supposed to take everything off the top of the fridge (we keep a small shelf unit up there) so that they could move it away from the wall. So around 2 a.m. I was pulling stuff down from atop the fridge and putting it in bags. We now have all the stuff from the big cabinet and all the stuff from atop the fridge squished together on our kitchen floor. And in the end they wound up not moving the fridge because the new leak needs to be fixed first... (siiiiigh)

Revenge of the walls have leaks

I know you're all thrilled by the ongoing saga, so...

The plumber fixed the new leak, and replaced a couple other old rusty valves while he was in there. But when he finished, the maintenance guy called me and said he thought it was too late in the day (2 p.m.) to start tearing the walls apart. And they're not working Monday (Columbus Day)... so they're going to come back Tuesday and start the actual repair work. (Not sure yet whether it'll take 1 day or 2.)

So that'll be a week and a half of dodging around the stuff we emptied out of the cabinet... urgh. It's a little annoying that it keeps getting pushed off, but I know that it's necessary; it doesn't make sense to box it in if it might start leaking again.

However, we did get something positive out of this. Our kitchen faucet has been sputtering lately. We figured it was probably a washer, but sdavido hasn't had a chance to go to the hardware store and get one. Well, I realized after I got to work this morning that there was a plumber in our kitchen! So I called the maintenance guy and asked him if the plumber could look at the sink, as long as it wouldn't take him away from what he needed to do. I figured it would be a minute's work for him to change the washer, and then we'd have a working sink again. (It's been really annoying.) Well, when I spoke to him in the afternoon, he said it turned out to be the whole - um - whatever the bottom part of the faucet is called, but the plumber had a spare so they fixed it. Yahoo! It's soooo nice to have a steady stream of water again... makes me more equanimous about waiting a few more days for them to fix the walls.