My wife performs a monthly cleaning service for a nice and tidy woman who resides on the first floor of a local condominium building . Lately we’ve felt rather sorry for this woman as over the past few years she’s four times suffered water damage from water heater leaks or A.C. overflows from the condo above that have destroyed ceilings , wall paint and carpets alike . At this very moment there is still a large piece of missing ceiling in her condo from the latest leak from above that occurred three months ago . Getting someone who knows what they are doing to repair it here in Florida has become a seemingly forlorn hope .
Today I brought the wife over to perform her duties at this condo to discover that there were two large area’s of very wet carpet that turns out to have been wet since the last time the wife was there a month ago . Two members of the buildings board of directors , along with a local plumbing contractor have inspected and are stumped for they know not where this water is coming from . A local air conditioning professional likewise had no idea .
Sick of walking over wet carpets for a month the poor woman was at the brink of contacting an engineering company to investigate the possibility of an under slab plumbing leak . But before that happened the cleaning lady took a flash light and a quick look behind the water heater and discovered that the drain pipe the AC overflows into had a crack in it .
Florida needs better professionals … or even professionals … or more cleaning ladies
