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Within four or so months of completing my bathroom renovation, I woke up Saturday morning to find the ceiling looking like a woman’s pregnant belly, about 7months pregnant to be precise.

After a thorough investigation, pushing it slightly with my finger, I was on the phone quick smart to my strata managers. With their office not open on Saturdays and there emergency plumbing number switched off, I phoned may mate Julian (works for a Real Estate agent in my area. cheers mate!) for his plumbing contact, their phone was on and a plumber was at my place within four hours.

The plumber decided to cut a small incision into the main section of the bulge, which released about 4 litres of water in quick fashion into my bathtub. After all the water was released we decided to cut a larger hole to find the source of the problem. We discovered I have a false ceiling and the reason for this is because the original ceiling has exactly the same size hole in it from, I can only assume, exactly the same problem. When this problem occurred last time they cut through the re-enforced concrete to access the plumbing from the above unit, so I can now see my neighbours bathtub and plumbing.

The source of the leak could not be clearly identified but the immediate problem was now fixed. I decided not to allow the plumber to continue until I had approval from strata management, some use preferred plumbers.

After speaking with my strata managers today, they have approved the original plumber to complete the repair and confirmed all costs associated will be charged to the Owners Corp. (maybe subject to an insurance claim).Repairs to the plumbing & ceiling (feels like soggy cardboard) has been booked for tomorrow and quite possibly the following day.

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