I did this the other day. Sitting
working during the first week of the school holidays while my
daughters were having breakfast I heard a dripping sound. On further
investigation I discovered that my geyser had sprung a leak. Needless
to say, the recycled paper and cardboard insulation, which seemed
like a good idea at the time, was sodden and before I knew what was
happening I had a big hole in the ceiling.
This brings me back to a post a couple
of weeks back about employees paying attention and being the company
that they work for. After numerous phone calls, my landlady having a
go at the insurance company for lack of response from the builders I
finally have a bedroom ceiling back and the walls painted. I'm still
waiting on the carpet people to come and replace the carpet however.
Why am I writing about this you may
ask?
Well in true fashion instead of getting
upset about this bump in the road, I decided to look on the positive
side instead. If the geyser had decided to burst a week earlier I
would have been doing the school run and the water would have had
another hour to run before being shut off. My neighbour was just
leaving for work when I went out to shut off the water and very
kindly did it for me. My husband came home from work to take the
girls off to various activities and left me able to clean up as much
of the mess as possible without being asked a million times by my
3-year-old why there was a hole in my ceiling.
So three weeks of mess and chaos with
the school holidays and my bedroom is finally a bedroom again, albeit
without a new carpet at the moment but I'm hoping that that will be
sorted with the Insurance shortly.
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