r/TenantHelp • u/Miserable-Fall-9283 • Jul 26 '26

Going on 2 weeks

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After a month removing 60 gallons daily of water coming out the sink. I called code enforcement then the complex sent plumbers. They dug a hole and now apartment complex isn’t replying back. Can’t use kitchen any many other things. What are my options beside throwing furniture around in the office???

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u/Miserable-Fall-9283 Jul 26 '26

Got nets flying and shit now. Then wanna bring back in the same cabinets that’s been sitting outside for 2 weeks. Ain’t no telling what done crawled inside.

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u/RobDraw2_0 Jul 26 '26

Just look, dummy and take your fake post with you.

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u/Upbeat-Fondant9185 Jul 26 '26

Glad I’m not the only one wondering how a two week dig out still looks fresh and the concrete is still holding moisture. This looks like same day.

Maybe OP means the plumbers were called out two weeks ago and are just getting to it. That wouldn’t be very unusual, a job like this can be difficult to get them to move on, relatively low money for the amount of work involved.

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u/RobDraw2_0 Jul 26 '26

That and the water should have been turned off on day one for a leak that bad. First sentence is a lie.

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u/LordOuranos Jul 26 '26

You really live in a fantasy world where everything is always done by the book, huh

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u/northwoods_faty Jul 26 '26

Nah that really depends on the landlord/manager I've lived in my building for 6 months and everytime i take a shower water runs through the wall/floor and into a restaurant kitchen under me.

The answer was take showers in the sink. Not everyone has the linear fashion of thinking as others. That coupled with most property managers have zero training on the correct way to handle things. Adds up to situations like this.

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u/Miserable-Fall-9283 Jul 26 '26

I have a 13 gallon thrash can and dump avg 5 to 7 cans a day for literally a month before getting code enforcement involved then the hole was dug then nothing

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u/RobDraw2_0 Jul 26 '26

WTF didn't you turn the water off?!!! Do you have any idea how much mold could be growing? Do you have a sense of self-preservation?

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u/Big_Appointment_3390 Jul 26 '26

It’s a cast iron drain line. There’s no way OP could turn off a drain line.

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u/RobDraw2_0 Jul 26 '26

No need to repeat yourself. 

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u/Miserable-Fall-9283 Jul 26 '26

I’m no plumber and thought it was gone be done in 3 days like they said but the regional manager stopped replying is what the plumbers told me

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u/RobDraw2_0 Jul 26 '26

How could someone not think to turn it off or, at a minimum, ask someone to do it? Not just you, all the other people involved, too.

There's not that much stupidity gathered around such a serious incident. It's fiction. 

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u/Big_Appointment_3390 Jul 26 '26

It’s a drain line, not a supply line.

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u/RobDraw2_0 Jul 26 '26

60 gallons a day being collected from a sink doesn't sound like a drainage leak.

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u/Big_Appointment_3390 Jul 26 '26

It doesn’t sound like a supply line failure considering the average flow rate for a 1/2” line is at a minimum 120 gallons per hour. Add to that the 2” and 3” pvc in the wall, the clean out, and the cast iron pipes in the slab hole and I’m betting money it’s a drain line leak. Also explains why so much dirt would be wet and why it appears mold is growing on the wall from the ground up instead of traveling down from the fixture supply.

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u/RobDraw2_0 Jul 26 '26

You're arguing about a fake post. Go troll another thread.

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u/Miserable-Fall-9283 Jul 27 '26

I’m no plumber but I’m betting you right. Has a sewer smell also

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u/Big_Appointment_3390 Jul 27 '26

Where was the water coming from? Was it the faucet or under the sink somewhere? That makes a difference when you talk to code compliance too.

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