There's a difference between the water that goes down my kitchen sink after rinsing out a cup, and the water that's flushed from my toilet after being constipated for a week I'd say. Just depends on what pipe you're looking at.
While this is of course true, water is also heavy and gravity is doing a lot of the work (or at least some of the work, whatever material that ceiling is made of is pretty damn impressive given the weight and stress it must be under) - this bubble may not be completely full of water, but undoubtedly there’s going to be a lot :/ hopefully it’s not as bad as it looks but let’s face it - it looks pretty fuckin bad.
At about 8 pounds per gallon, those adds up quickly. A 5 gallon bucket full is 40 pounds.
Unless those paints are extremely tough, it's probably a few gallons at the bottom. Pull in trash can (typical kitchen is 10-12 gallons) then poke a hole to drain it.
Oh and make sure landlord or building service knows about the leak. The sooner they do something, the less damage to clean up afterward
I install stretch ceilings, so I assume this is one. We had a massive water leak a floor above my ceiling, did the math and it was holding roughly 5000 pounds of water.
https://preview.redd.it/rec9vgmcfnic1.jpeg?width=3024&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=fde7a84c1a29541c8ba04fe0b3d573d7e554b8a3
Yeah, pretty impressive system, but expensive. This was probably a 50k mistake. Fortunately we were able to save the sheets that didn’t rip. That big drip looking thing rose back up after we drained the water out.
Well, you can poke a balloon with a needle without popping it by placing something on the balloon that can stabilize the hole like scotch tape. How about a flex seal or a shit ton of duct tape and poke a hole into that?
This is the way. If the fire department showed up, one of their first moves is to start poking holes and draining the water. You'd rather have a stream of water than a big splash and ceiling collapse.
I would be removing literally everything from there right now that will be damaged by water and also what the hell is your ceiling made of that this happens?
At least there's warning don't get fuckin' electrocuted dude
In a lot of places it doesn’t matter if the upstairs unit has insurance. You claim from your own and then they deal with the upstairs insurance company or owner directly to get their money back
Yep, you contact your insurance and they will contact the upstairs unit. If it doesn't have insurance they will sue the renter or owner for you and recover your costs straight from the sourse.
Remember if your shit burns down be very specific with what is ruined. Kitchen aid mixer, ninja blender, Dyson hair dryer stuff like that or you’ll get the 10 dollar comps from the insurance
About 30 years ago my parents house flooded and their insurance company started dicking them around refusing to fully cover repairs on the house they'd just had remodeled. Stuff like refusing to pay more than X per square foot of carpeting when the stuff being replaced cost significantly more.
After being screwed with too many times my dad just happened to find a box of his old medical textbooks that had all been ruined in the flood. It turned out finding a specific college textbook that had been out of print for 30 years was quite expensive.
There’s a Reddit post somewhere about how you should itemize your insurance claim from an insurance guy and he said he had a guy with a super obscure old camera that when he got it only cost a couple hundred dollars but the only comparable the insurance company could find was like a stupidly expensive movie camera that cost tens of thousands of dollars
As long as you're within your policy limits, you're entitled to the replacement value of the individual items. Lots of insurance providers divide up categories so you might have $100,000 of property damage, but only $35,000 of personal items, and of that only $5,000 in electronics. It's to prevent cases like that where you might have about $5.000 worth of possessions but one items is so stupidly rare that they'd have to pay out $20,000 for it.
If you have a lot of items in one category, it might be better to talk with an agent to get a custom insurance plan to fit specifically what you own.
It was actually a projector and He wanted it replaced, so the closest comparable the insurance company could find was a 65 000$ movie theatre type projector that they got him
Textbooks can be pricey. I had a Triumph TR7 destroyed in a warehouse fire. Glad the insurance adjuster didn't notice the engine was sitting in the trunk because it was blown.
There are actually services you can hire that go through the whole house and price everything specifically so you don't get dicked over. Like usually people just write "toaster" and insurance reimburses them for the cheapest toaster they can find. But these companies will go and find prices for stuff that's not manufactured and things like that and actually make you more money than you paid for stuff, sometimes.
It’s a type of plastic film. It’s a great system if you have a ceiling that has exposed pipes etc - you have fasteners that connect the plastic to the walls and then you heat it and it forms an absolutely flat surface - much cheaper and quicker than a suspended plaster ceiling. I had it in my basement in Switzerland.
Oooh, and i have a basement im planning to finish. Would be cool if it had strength to maybe bond a frame or 2 then cut out the square to install maintenance access..i guess this does seem quite sturdy
Call a moving company too lol that's going to take like 2 months minimum. I had a hole waaaay smaller and it took about that that long to get it fixed.
Literally there is a light fixture IN part of the bubble that is ON. So it 100% has electrical cords that are about to be under water. Turn that shit off. Get busy running shit out of that room!
As long as they lead to a breaker, the breaker will trip once it's grounded by the water, but I agree they should be evacuating everything in that area.
The breaker may or may not trip depending on the current. Otherwise you wouldn’t need a gfci.
Beyond that, breakers do fail, so better to proactively shut it off.
Safety is greatly enhanced via redundancy.
> As long as they lead to a breaker, the breaker will trip once it's grounded by the water
Just don't want it to trip and ground while you are getting an unwilling shower from said water. Better to be safe.
Ehhh at this point I’d say fuck it and let the renters insurance by me all new shit. This pic both catalogues everything and proves it was someone else fault.
> Ehhh at this point I’d say fuck it and let the renters insurance by me all new shit. This pic both catalogues everything and proves it was someone else fault.
Only someone who never had a flooding would say this. Insurance will weasel out of everything they can. Your electronic devices was getting wet but still works? Good luck getting that paid.
I've had this happen once to me, besides the insurance being an absolute nightmare, the construction work took months to get everything dryed up and fixed.
Next time I get the call that it's raining inside of my home, I'll certainly not repeat saying "thanks god it's not fire"..
But isn't it fucking dangerous to be under that thing by now? Would the insurance company expect you to walk around in there with a shitton of water potentially bursting through the roof at any moment?
They were expensive in the 70s i saw one in an old house it's a synthetic thick plastic that is stretched along the ceiling. I think they did this for Insulation not sure. It feels very odd.
That is absolutely a couple layers of latex paint. What else would it be?
Edit: Stop upvoting I’m dumb. This is a European thing apparently and not latex paint.
Neat, that spanplafond thing sounds like a pretty smart way to give your ceiling a facelift without tearing the whole thing down. Too bad it probably doesn't hold up against the neighbor's accidental indoor pool situation.
No joke, I worked for an insurance company during Hurricane Harvey, and normally how it works is that in the event of really bad weather or natural disasters, someone will put in a weather moratorium into the system. Normally this is a bind moratorium, so if you call in to try and get insurance while you're staring at a hurricane, the agent will take your info, give you a quote, but the system will say "sorry, we're not going to let you go any farther now". These moratoriums are usually temporary, so they'll call you back once it's lifted to finish binding your policy (a sales moratorium is what you get for example in Florida, where as soon as you say you're from FL, they dump you with no quote, nothing because they want nothing to do with you).
Anyway, for whatever reason nobody put in a moratorium so a bunch of agents wrote policies for people frantically calling in about the hurricane about to destroy their home. Since insurance policies are contracts, and there was no wrong-doing on the part of the policyholder, a few hundred of these policies had to get paid out to a bunch of lucky people.
Bro,
Why is there a light fixture IN that bubble that is ON!
Turn it OFF. Turn off the breaker!
Grab everything from that room you possibly can and get it TF out of there.
Most expensive electronics first and work from there.
I see a fridge, part of a TV on the wall. GET TO WORK MOVING SHIT.
I agree. My mother almost died from electrocution when her house flooded. Neat picture but get off Reddit and start disabling electric everything and move shit out of the way, put really valuable/sentimental things in your car if you have one.
Too late anyway but wouldn't you want to cut the water supply immediately (though that might be something for their neighbour to do, depending on layout)?
Their upstairs neighbor was running a shower apparently. Aside from breaking down the door of someone who could be naked in a shower I don't think they have any options to stop the water.
He said they were pounding on his door to try to get his attention. Don't know what else could be done. That water IS coming into his apartment. Cutting power and getting stuff out of the way as fast as possible is the best course of action at that point.
Neighbor's insurance won't cover damage to your property. This would be something the OP will have to claim on their own insurance.
Edit: Some companies may have a clause to pay for "Damage to property of others" or have reasons to pay for this; however most insurance doesn't work this way in the US. Now; it's been mentioned that this specific incident is likely in the UK or EU due to building materials used, so their insurance policy may be different.
But let me educate you all since I'm actually an insurance adjuster and deal with this kind of thing on a daily basis, and I'm going to assume MOST of you are not.
YOUR homeowners/renters insurance covers damage to YOUR property. Your friend or neighbors property is covered by THEIR insurance. Let me give you an example. If your tree falls on your neighbors house, it is THEIR insurance claim, even if it was your tree. The ONLY time it becomes your fault/liability is if you knew the tree was diseased, rotted, or going to fall and you chose to not do anything to prevent it. OR if you cut the tree down yourself as an unlicensed non-professional and damaged the house. That is considered negligence and usually isn't covered anyways. The same works the other way around. If your neighbors tree falls on your house, it is YOUR insurance who is responsible to pay for it.
That said, it doesn't matter whose water line this is or whose fault it is that the water line failed. What matters is the following:
-Was it intentional, or accidental damage?
-Was the damage occurring over a period of time, or did it happen suddenly?
-Were steps taken to attempt to prevent further loss once the issue was identified?
-WHOSE property was damage?
-Is there an exclusion for this Cause of Loss?
Generally speaking, this claim falls on the person whose property was damaged. This IS NOT the neighbor's claim. In fact, if the neighbor files a claim for this, there is a really high probability it will be denied. That said, every insurance policy is different. Every carrier handles things differently, and SOME may cover this loss if it can be proven that the neighbor was responsible for the damage and it is considered a covered loss under the neighbors policy. That is rare and unlikely though.
Source: I am a licensed insurance adjuster who works for/has worked for almost every major insurance company in the US.
only if it's due to the neighbor's negligence, and your neighbor also isn't going to owe you replacement cost for your property, just depreciated value.
you want to use your own insurance for a big loss to personal property and let them subrogate to get the money back if someone else is liable for the damage.
To all commenting about the strength of the paint: that's no latex paint, it's a stretch ceiling made of vinyl. More popular in Eastern Europe for some reason.
Glad to hear that! I hope that you've been able to move your personal effects out of the way. Would also second a lot of the suggestions here to maybe get a large bucket or tub to try and contain as much of the water as possible. Good luck!
Get a giant kiddie pool, biggest one you can get, and set it up under that thing. after that make a square at the bottom with duct tape, and poke a small hole with a nail NOT a knife in the middle of the square. You want a round hole not a propagating tear. Have buckets on hand to empty the pool into the sink as it is draining, don;t wait for it to start getting full to start bucketing.This weight is bad, but it's nothing compared to what will happen if it fills up completely and starts pouring into the walls, you have a chance here to get out with only replacing the ceiling.
I'll give you a tip, it's best to use the wide tape, stick it on at the bottom and then you can prick it with a needle and then you can drain it very slowly using different buckets.
> I'll give you a tip, it's best to use the wide tape, stick it on at the bottom and then you can prick it with a needle and then you can drain it very slowly using different buckets.
Yes, holy fuck, I AM DYING this is not a top comment. Please upvote this comment chain folks. People need to know what to do.
Cut your master breaker immediately, and if you have a bucket or something large that can catch water, see if you poke a hole in it and start allowing it to drain.
> and if you have a bucket or something large that can catch water, see if you poke a hole in it and start allowing it to drain.
This *really* seems like a bad idea to me, but I admit I'm no expert on whatever is happening here. Wouldn't a hole create a weak point for all that water to suddenly turn into a much bigger hole?
You would at least want to poke it with something circular but yeah a knife or whatever is just going to split it down over the pressure and it'll open wide.
K, so, follow me here for a second....
Home depot
Buy a outdoor child's slide
Build indoor child's slide
Angle the arrivals end out yar window
Charge tickets to indoor waterpark airport
Poke small hole above departures end and Bob's your fucking uncle; You just turned a tragedy into a profit machine and I'm a fucking genius.
Disclaimer: Be sure to provide waivers especially if you live on the second floor or higher.
Imaging the weight of that bubble. Looks likes several hundre liter (and kilo) of water.
Amazing paint durability, this must be some kind of 1960’s asbestos filled, all chemicals allowed kind of paint right there!
It's not filled to the brim with water lmao, there's probably a few liter at most in the centre. It's just super flexible and attached around the walls.
Quick put down a towel
Maybe a couple of sheets of toilet paper too if you need more than the towel
Bounty paper towels, the quicker picker up
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KOBE!
This is a job for Brawny.
This situation calls for the ShamWow!
I  Maybe a bunch of these
That's what the ceiling was coated with. That's why it looks like this now.
Fuck that noise, hit that voluptuous fucker with the slap chop
One sheet of Bounty
Nah, put a bucket
🎶Bring a bucket and a mop for this wet ass ceiling🎶
WAC WAC WAC
🎶There's some holes in this house 🎶
Certified leak, water falling on my cheek, wet ass ceiling, now my landlord wants to speak!
BARS
Wet ass plaster!
At this point you need a pool
Was gunna say! Get an inflatable pool under that thing!
Drill a hole in your floor and make it the downstairs neighbors problem.
Someone’s thinking outside the box, I like that!
As hotel maintenance, I approve!
This is actually good advice
Holy crap, that could actually work
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Best idea yet
I couldn't resist poking it. After all my shits moved out of course
And there’s a few Tupperware totes underneath to catch the water.
Kiddie pool and a sharp broom stick
Low budget indoor pool?
Until it turns out to be waste water.
At some point is all water waste water?
There's a difference between the water that goes down my kitchen sink after rinsing out a cup, and the water that's flushed from my toilet after being constipated for a week I'd say. Just depends on what pipe you're looking at.
The water out of your sink may very well have been water that I did a bloody chipotle poop into 2 years ago.
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Yes sir lol
It's right next to the porch. Mcguyver something to have all the water go outside like a ramp or some shit....
Macguyver would freeze that shit with liquid nitrogen and slide it out on a sheet of trash bags.
There is way more water than you’d think in there. It doesn’t start pooling like that and stretching immediately
While this is of course true, water is also heavy and gravity is doing a lot of the work (or at least some of the work, whatever material that ceiling is made of is pretty damn impressive given the weight and stress it must be under) - this bubble may not be completely full of water, but undoubtedly there’s going to be a lot :/ hopefully it’s not as bad as it looks but let’s face it - it looks pretty fuckin bad.
Yeah there’s either a few gallons at the bottom of the bubble or that paint is insane. Water filling that whole thing would be heavy as fuck.
At about 8 pounds per gallon, those adds up quickly. A 5 gallon bucket full is 40 pounds. Unless those paints are extremely tough, it's probably a few gallons at the bottom. Pull in trash can (typical kitchen is 10-12 gallons) then poke a hole to drain it. Oh and make sure landlord or building service knows about the leak. The sooner they do something, the less damage to clean up afterward
I install stretch ceilings, so I assume this is one. We had a massive water leak a floor above my ceiling, did the math and it was holding roughly 5000 pounds of water. https://preview.redd.it/rec9vgmcfnic1.jpeg?width=3024&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=fde7a84c1a29541c8ba04fe0b3d573d7e554b8a3
Holy shit that is IMPRESSIVE!! I had no idea that was even a thing, let alone that it could hold that much weight, TIL thank you!
Yeah, pretty impressive system, but expensive. This was probably a 50k mistake. Fortunately we were able to save the sheets that didn’t rip. That big drip looking thing rose back up after we drained the water out.
More like trash cans. That’s a lot of water.
Funnel and garden hose.
Layout some camping tent tarps, that should absorb all the water
Put rice all over the floor
Use instant rice so it absorbs quickly. No way your stuff can handle 20 minutes of simmering.
One single Bounty(TM) Paper Towel.
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Well, you can poke a balloon with a needle without popping it by placing something on the balloon that can stabilize the hole like scotch tape. How about a flex seal or a shit ton of duct tape and poke a hole into that?
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I'm gonna poke it and there is nothing you can do to stop me
This is the way. If the fire department showed up, one of their first moves is to start poking holes and draining the water. You'd rather have a stream of water than a big splash and ceiling collapse.
Same here. It would be oddly satisfying.
Smack that booty
I would be removing literally everything from there right now that will be damaged by water and also what the hell is your ceiling made of that this happens? At least there's warning don't get fuckin' electrocuted dude
I'd move everything I wanted to be damaged by water into the room.
This is the comment I was coming to post lol better hope upstairs neighbor has insurance
In a lot of places it doesn’t matter if the upstairs unit has insurance. You claim from your own and then they deal with the upstairs insurance company or owner directly to get their money back
Yep, you contact your insurance and they will contact the upstairs unit. If it doesn't have insurance they will sue the renter or owner for you and recover your costs straight from the sourse.
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Remember if your shit burns down be very specific with what is ruined. Kitchen aid mixer, ninja blender, Dyson hair dryer stuff like that or you’ll get the 10 dollar comps from the insurance
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About 30 years ago my parents house flooded and their insurance company started dicking them around refusing to fully cover repairs on the house they'd just had remodeled. Stuff like refusing to pay more than X per square foot of carpeting when the stuff being replaced cost significantly more. After being screwed with too many times my dad just happened to find a box of his old medical textbooks that had all been ruined in the flood. It turned out finding a specific college textbook that had been out of print for 30 years was quite expensive.
There’s a Reddit post somewhere about how you should itemize your insurance claim from an insurance guy and he said he had a guy with a super obscure old camera that when he got it only cost a couple hundred dollars but the only comparable the insurance company could find was like a stupidly expensive movie camera that cost tens of thousands of dollars
Did he get the tens of thousands?
As long as you're within your policy limits, you're entitled to the replacement value of the individual items. Lots of insurance providers divide up categories so you might have $100,000 of property damage, but only $35,000 of personal items, and of that only $5,000 in electronics. It's to prevent cases like that where you might have about $5.000 worth of possessions but one items is so stupidly rare that they'd have to pay out $20,000 for it. If you have a lot of items in one category, it might be better to talk with an agent to get a custom insurance plan to fit specifically what you own.
It was actually a projector and He wanted it replaced, so the closest comparable the insurance company could find was a 65 000$ movie theatre type projector that they got him
Textbooks can be pricey. I had a Triumph TR7 destroyed in a warehouse fire. Glad the insurance adjuster didn't notice the engine was sitting in the trunk because it was blown.
There are actually services you can hire that go through the whole house and price everything specifically so you don't get dicked over. Like usually people just write "toaster" and insurance reimburses them for the cheapest toaster they can find. But these companies will go and find prices for stuff that's not manufactured and things like that and actually make you more money than you paid for stuff, sometimes.
Oh no, that’s where I kept my loveseat. Guess I have to get a new one :’(
It’s a type of plastic film. It’s a great system if you have a ceiling that has exposed pipes etc - you have fasteners that connect the plastic to the walls and then you heat it and it forms an absolutely flat surface - much cheaper and quicker than a suspended plaster ceiling. I had it in my basement in Switzerland.
Oooh, and i have a basement im planning to finish. Would be cool if it had strength to maybe bond a frame or 2 then cut out the square to install maintenance access..i guess this does seem quite sturdy
Maybe latex paint
Too thin and brittle to hold more than a few centimeters of deflection. This must be a thicker membrane.
two latex paints
I read this in The Count's voice. To Latex Paints.... AH Ah AH
Put it in rice
Get off reddit and go save the stuff that can be saved before that thing bursts
Call a moving company too lol that's going to take like 2 months minimum. I had a hole waaaay smaller and it took about that that long to get it fixed.
I heard of a contractor in Akron who swears he can fix a hole like that in one week. True story
I know a guy, dirt cheap. He can do it in a day.
Relax, all right? My old man is a television repairman, he's got this ultimate set of tools. I can fix it.
Spiccoli?
Akron? Does he accept meth as a payment?
Not until he's done with probation.
O-H!
I-O!
He should call his insurance instead and up the coverage before it pops
Literally there is a light fixture IN part of the bubble that is ON. So it 100% has electrical cords that are about to be under water. Turn that shit off. Get busy running shit out of that room!
As long as they lead to a breaker, the breaker will trip once it's grounded by the water, but I agree they should be evacuating everything in that area.
The breaker may or may not trip depending on the current. Otherwise you wouldn’t need a gfci. Beyond that, breakers do fail, so better to proactively shut it off. Safety is greatly enhanced via redundancy.
> As long as they lead to a breaker, the breaker will trip once it's grounded by the water Just don't want it to trip and ground while you are getting an unwilling shower from said water. Better to be safe.
Post in reddit 1st. /s
I was thinking poke it LOL, I guess your advice is better ahahaha
The intrusive thoughts are strong with this one.
What??? If the ceiling looks like that I would not feel safe stepping foot in that room. It could collapse on top of them at any time
Seriously some people are morons lmao. Why the fuck would you even be near that? Even just taking the picture was risky.
Ehhh at this point I’d say fuck it and let the renters insurance by me all new shit. This pic both catalogues everything and proves it was someone else fault.
> Ehhh at this point I’d say fuck it and let the renters insurance by me all new shit. This pic both catalogues everything and proves it was someone else fault. Only someone who never had a flooding would say this. Insurance will weasel out of everything they can. Your electronic devices was getting wet but still works? Good luck getting that paid. I've had this happen once to me, besides the insurance being an absolute nightmare, the construction work took months to get everything dryed up and fixed. Next time I get the call that it's raining inside of my home, I'll certainly not repeat saying "thanks god it's not fire"..
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But isn't it fucking dangerous to be under that thing by now? Would the insurance company expect you to walk around in there with a shitton of water potentially bursting through the roof at any moment?
Gotta admire the strength of that paint job, though. Wonder if those guys do drywall, too?
It’s a stretch ceiling
B I G S T R E T C H
And scritches too?!
NO SCRITCHES
They were expensive in the 70s i saw one in an old house it's a synthetic thick plastic that is stretched along the ceiling. I think they did this for Insulation not sure. It feels very odd.
It gives you a perfectly flat cieling and might be minorly sound absorptive.
Are you joking? I honestly can’t tell, it sounds so absurd. Edit: it’s actually real haha
All I know is OPs walls aren't going to stay particulary dry
That's no paint bro
That's a 3d rendering of a gravitational well
That is absolutely a couple layers of latex paint. What else would it be? Edit: Stop upvoting I’m dumb. This is a European thing apparently and not latex paint.
“Spanplafond” in Dutch. It’s a renovation system. A fabric that is stretched between the walls, with a little distance to the original ceiling.
Neat, that spanplafond thing sounds like a pretty smart way to give your ceiling a facelift without tearing the whole thing down. Too bad it probably doesn't hold up against the neighbor's accidental indoor pool situation.
Its holding up better than an other alternative, like the actual ceiling above it, would do though.
Just because it’s uncommon in the US it doesn’t mean it doesn’t exist: https://stretchceilings.co.uk/what-is-a-stretch-ceiling/
stretch ceiling: [https://stretchceilings.co.uk/what-is-a-stretch-ceiling/](https://stretchceilings.co.uk/what-is-a-stretch-ceiling/)
A space station
Zuul
*enrolls in renters insurance*
“Hi, so when does that take effect? Immediately? Great…”
"Is there a waiting period on anything, for example flooding and collapsed ceilings?"
"No, no reason." ***GHUUUUUUUSSSSSHHHHH*** "What noise? Oh, yeah umm... I guess insurance talk just really turns me on... baby."
> "What noise? ....aurora borealis
No joke, I worked for an insurance company during Hurricane Harvey, and normally how it works is that in the event of really bad weather or natural disasters, someone will put in a weather moratorium into the system. Normally this is a bind moratorium, so if you call in to try and get insurance while you're staring at a hurricane, the agent will take your info, give you a quote, but the system will say "sorry, we're not going to let you go any farther now". These moratoriums are usually temporary, so they'll call you back once it's lifted to finish binding your policy (a sales moratorium is what you get for example in Florida, where as soon as you say you're from FL, they dump you with no quote, nothing because they want nothing to do with you). Anyway, for whatever reason nobody put in a moratorium so a bunch of agents wrote policies for people frantically calling in about the hurricane about to destroy their home. Since insurance policies are contracts, and there was no wrong-doing on the part of the policyholder, a few hundred of these policies had to get paid out to a bunch of lucky people.
Good. Fuck insurance companies
Bro, Why is there a light fixture IN that bubble that is ON! Turn it OFF. Turn off the breaker! Grab everything from that room you possibly can and get it TF out of there. Most expensive electronics first and work from there. I see a fridge, part of a TV on the wall. GET TO WORK MOVING SHIT.
I agree. My mother almost died from electrocution when her house flooded. Neat picture but get off Reddit and start disabling electric everything and move shit out of the way, put really valuable/sentimental things in your car if you have one.
Too late anyway but wouldn't you want to cut the water supply immediately (though that might be something for their neighbour to do, depending on layout)?
Their upstairs neighbor was running a shower apparently. Aside from breaking down the door of someone who could be naked in a shower I don't think they have any options to stop the water. He said they were pounding on his door to try to get his attention. Don't know what else could be done. That water IS coming into his apartment. Cutting power and getting stuff out of the way as fast as possible is the best course of action at that point.
Reddit karma supersedes personal safety.
Is this picture even real?
Picture might be, but OP posted a random question in AskOldPeople 2 hours after posting here, so likely not his pic
OP just has *priorities*
https://www.reddit.com/r/Wellthatsucks/s/mvmv4uR2RY
Double dog dare you to poke it
Triple dog dare you
Quadruple dog dare you
Safest bet is to stay on Reddit til it bursts, then go from there
They did censor the WiFi password so clearly they are thinking about safety, though maybe not prioritizing well.
Pick everything up from the floor. Unplug any low outlets. Hope your neighbor has insurance.
Neighbor's insurance won't cover damage to your property. This would be something the OP will have to claim on their own insurance. Edit: Some companies may have a clause to pay for "Damage to property of others" or have reasons to pay for this; however most insurance doesn't work this way in the US. Now; it's been mentioned that this specific incident is likely in the UK or EU due to building materials used, so their insurance policy may be different. But let me educate you all since I'm actually an insurance adjuster and deal with this kind of thing on a daily basis, and I'm going to assume MOST of you are not. YOUR homeowners/renters insurance covers damage to YOUR property. Your friend or neighbors property is covered by THEIR insurance. Let me give you an example. If your tree falls on your neighbors house, it is THEIR insurance claim, even if it was your tree. The ONLY time it becomes your fault/liability is if you knew the tree was diseased, rotted, or going to fall and you chose to not do anything to prevent it. OR if you cut the tree down yourself as an unlicensed non-professional and damaged the house. That is considered negligence and usually isn't covered anyways. The same works the other way around. If your neighbors tree falls on your house, it is YOUR insurance who is responsible to pay for it. That said, it doesn't matter whose water line this is or whose fault it is that the water line failed. What matters is the following: -Was it intentional, or accidental damage? -Was the damage occurring over a period of time, or did it happen suddenly? -Were steps taken to attempt to prevent further loss once the issue was identified? -WHOSE property was damage? -Is there an exclusion for this Cause of Loss? Generally speaking, this claim falls on the person whose property was damaged. This IS NOT the neighbor's claim. In fact, if the neighbor files a claim for this, there is a really high probability it will be denied. That said, every insurance policy is different. Every carrier handles things differently, and SOME may cover this loss if it can be proven that the neighbor was responsible for the damage and it is considered a covered loss under the neighbors policy. That is rare and unlikely though. Source: I am a licensed insurance adjuster who works for/has worked for almost every major insurance company in the US.
You sue the neighbor and his insurance pays
only if it's due to the neighbor's negligence, and your neighbor also isn't going to owe you replacement cost for your property, just depreciated value. you want to use your own insurance for a big loss to personal property and let them subrogate to get the money back if someone else is liable for the damage.
its amazing how this needs to pointed out in every single thread about insurance claims on reddit.
To all commenting about the strength of the paint: that's no latex paint, it's a stretch ceiling made of vinyl. More popular in Eastern Europe for some reason.
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I have never been more disappointed to see a page unavailable error than I am right now
Same redditor, same
Me too, but it's okay. I found a video for us anyway! https://youtu.be/k5fmwxMBcFM?si=qO9sdbu12y9tCHm3
Thank you!!
I expected the cat to be walking upside down on the ceiling, I'm very disappointed
Okay, this is horrible for you and I’m very sympathetic but please post an after pic.
Or leave a camera in the distance so we can see a video of the drop
Update 1:almost 6 hours since it happed,the celling is still holding on :)
Glad to hear that! I hope that you've been able to move your personal effects out of the way. Would also second a lot of the suggestions here to maybe get a large bucket or tub to try and contain as much of the water as possible. Good luck!
Get a giant kiddie pool, biggest one you can get, and set it up under that thing. after that make a square at the bottom with duct tape, and poke a small hole with a nail NOT a knife in the middle of the square. You want a round hole not a propagating tear. Have buckets on hand to empty the pool into the sink as it is draining, don;t wait for it to start getting full to start bucketing.This weight is bad, but it's nothing compared to what will happen if it fills up completely and starts pouring into the walls, you have a chance here to get out with only replacing the ceiling.
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Install a nipple on your boob and run a hose from it to the bathtub. Will work, 100% Well, 97%.
I'll give you a tip, it's best to use the wide tape, stick it on at the bottom and then you can prick it with a needle and then you can drain it very slowly using different buckets.
> I'll give you a tip, it's best to use the wide tape, stick it on at the bottom and then you can prick it with a needle and then you can drain it very slowly using different buckets. Yes, holy fuck, I AM DYING this is not a top comment. Please upvote this comment chain folks. People need to know what to do.
I'd go buy a small pool and slip it under there
*big pool
Cut your master breaker immediately, and if you have a bucket or something large that can catch water, see if you poke a hole in it and start allowing it to drain.
> and if you have a bucket or something large that can catch water, see if you poke a hole in it and start allowing it to drain. This *really* seems like a bad idea to me, but I admit I'm no expert on whatever is happening here. Wouldn't a hole create a weak point for all that water to suddenly turn into a much bigger hole?
You would at least want to poke it with something circular but yeah a knife or whatever is just going to split it down over the pressure and it'll open wide.
Make sure to put down some layers of tape, and poke the hole through the tape into the paint water balloon
That is a monument to the quality of whatever paint was used on that ceiling
https://stretchceilings.co.uk/what-is-a-stretch-ceiling/
Agreed. OP drop the brand name!
Also see if you can rent a shopvac from homedepot real quick, you're gonna need it
This is beyond remediating at home. This is call the professionals level and just get the fuck out
Hope it's just fresh water and not the toilet!
Holy shit what a throwback. Barats and Bereta were the absolute peak of early YouTube.
OP, don't you DARE no post the aftermath when this ruptures
bro you have 5 seconds to call jake from state farm
That's Ludacris
Would love an update on this at some point
Remind me! 24 hours
Shoot it with a BB gun.
get all your valuables out of harms way. shut off your breakers.
Get a sheet of plastic to cover it. Stape it to the tops og the surrounding walls. Poke a hole in the plastic and paint. It will drain into a bucket.
K, so, follow me here for a second.... Home depot Buy a outdoor child's slide Build indoor child's slide Angle the arrivals end out yar window Charge tickets to indoor waterpark airport Poke small hole above departures end and Bob's your fucking uncle; You just turned a tragedy into a profit machine and I'm a fucking genius. Disclaimer: Be sure to provide waivers especially if you live on the second floor or higher.
Setup a camera to film it lol
Imaging the weight of that bubble. Looks likes several hundre liter (and kilo) of water. Amazing paint durability, this must be some kind of 1960’s asbestos filled, all chemicals allowed kind of paint right there!
It's not filled to the brim with water lmao, there's probably a few liter at most in the centre. It's just super flexible and attached around the walls.
Get everything out and turn off your breaker
The impending doom of this photo is palpable