Well, to cap off a crappy week where I have had to work minimum of 12 hour days for the past 13 days and now compulsory overtime at work for another 2-3 weekends, I got off a bit early yesterday and headed home.

Once I got off the elevator to walk down the hall to my apartment style condo, I saw two of the Condo board members standing outside of my unit. I noticed a huge wet stain of water outside my door and then noticed that my door and door frame were all smashed up.

Since I'm tired and really nothing is fazing me lately, I ask what happened?

They told me that the lady in the unit above me had a plumber come in the morning to unclog her sink drains. Well the plumber managed to push the block down a floor, and when he ran water, it drained fine. The problem being that now everyone two floors up that used their kitchen sink was draining to the block on my floor, and it was coming out my kitchen sink.

This also leaked into the unit below me and also into the hallway and front lobby of the building.

So the Condo Board had called everyone needed, showing up over the next two hours. I had a locksmith come and shore up the door so it can be reasonably locked up, then the building's engineering contractor came and found the clog and made sure to auger it out to the basement (checked the basement after) and then the Disaster Recovery team showed up and power vacuumed up what water they could and installed a couple of industrial dehumidifiers inside my unit, one outside the door, and a couple in the lobby downstairs. Then they started pulling up carpet, baseboard and linoleum and checking for damage.

This was all compounded by the fact that it was sludge, not clean water that came down the pipes.

Initial estimate is to tear out the carpeting, the linoleum, the kitchen island that has the sink and dishwasher in it, about a foot or two of the drywall around the kitchen and into the bathroom, take down and rebuild the drop down ceiling above the kitchen (water was dripping down from there), replace the lighting fixtures, rebuild the door structure, new door frame, new door, repair all the drywall around the door, and then a few drywall joints that the moisture caused to split throughout the place. Then they will have to replace the ceiling in the lobby, the unit below me, the hallway and the carpeting in all areas as well.

The good news is my 'personal' property wasn't damaged, but a courtesy call was put in by me to my insurance company. All of this work will be paid by the building insurance and then they can decide if they go after the plumbing company or the unit owners insurance.

My mantra with all the extra work and now this is 'oh well'. Not too much that I can do about it now.

I am staying with my sister for now, and don't have a timeline for when I can move back in.

Someone in my province won $50 million last night in the lottery, I'm going to go check my ticket, cross your fingers that I can move away from all of this

Might not see me online too much in the immediate future, but will try to pop in at least once a day.

So how was your Friday night