Apartment etiquette question

[blogslut]

Pipes are leaking behind the walls in my pantry, where the water heater resides. There is a good amount of water already covering my kitchen floor - too much for a mere mop. It is just after midnight. I have a small wet-dry vac. Should I wait until the morning to clean the water or should I risk pissing off my neighbors by running this fairly loud machine now?

[The Velveteen Ocelot]

1. This is kind of an emergency.

If you wait until morning to vacuum up the water it could leak through the floor and cause some serious damage. Run the vacuum and apologize in the morning.

[blogslut]

3. Thankfull, I'm on the ground floor.

But, yeah. The water will still damage whatever's under the linoleum.

[mrmpa]

2. Piss off your neighbors.........

there will be more damage if you don't. Also calll your landlord. This is not something that can wait until the morning.

[blogslut]

4. Oh, I called them.

They're pretty good about this sort of thing as I've had plumbing issues the whole time I've lived here. But I can understand it being so late that I won't see anyone until the morning.

[underahedgerow]

5. Take pictures!!!! Document it all and do everything you can to prevent damage to other apartments

and further to your own as well.

[blogslut]

6. Thank you. I have now taken photos.

Got most of my stuff out of the pantry and ran the wet-vac for a little bit. Taking a break now and contemplating whether or not to break out the booze.

[ohnoyoudidnt]

7. Break it out.

[underahedgerow]

8. There is NO excuse to

NOT break out the booze!!!! Have one for me!!

It's always beer-thirty somewhere!

[blogslut]

9. Ugh. It's worse than I imagined.

Water's leaking through my kitchen walls and when I stepped out to the hallway to take out shit from my pantry that needed to go, the ceiling's leaking out there too.

[blogslut]

10. Fuck it.

I'm gonna make me a big old batch of pasta salad, fill up my pitchers with water, make one last pot of real coffee and take a bath. And then I will crack open this bottle of spumante. Something tells me I'm going to be without running water for a while.

[WinkyDink]

11. This ain't no time for etiquette! Call the super! Get help!

[blogslut]

12. Oh, I will, again.

But first, taking care of me. I'm going to be without running water for a while. Gotta do some prep.

[blogslut]

13. Huzzah!

They finally came. Had to call the owner to get any love. Upstairs water heater busted. Not looking forward to all the repairs they're going to have to do, walls, ceilings, carpet...ugh ugh ugh.