Even if I spoke Gujarati, I still wouldn't speak plumber! I can barely speak plumber in English!
Our water leak has returned -- it leaks in a wall upstairs, runs across the floor, then drips off the balcony onto the ground floor. There's also a major leak coming off the "soffit" (for lack of a better term) above our bedroom windows. It's a substantial leak -- over the course of about 14 or 15 hours it completely drained our 5 cubic meter (1250 gallon) tank. So today the only water we have is the gallon-or-so of purified drinking water we have in the RO (reverse osmosis) unit.
The plumbers arrive on a motor scooter with a small bag of tools. Hardly the plumbing trucks I'm used to that carry a whole shop's worth of supplies and equipment. Even today, knowing they have to tear out and replace some pipe, they arrive with just a sledgehammer and a few basic tools.
I really hope we have water restored by this evening so we don't have to try to book a room at the Fortune Galaxy Hotel! Lon has already spent enough time there!
Our water leak has returned -- it leaks in a wall upstairs, runs across the floor, then drips off the balcony onto the ground floor. There's also a major leak coming off the "soffit" (for lack of a better term) above our bedroom windows. It's a substantial leak -- over the course of about 14 or 15 hours it completely drained our 5 cubic meter (1250 gallon) tank. So today the only water we have is the gallon-or-so of purified drinking water we have in the RO (reverse osmosis) unit.
The plumbers arrive on a motor scooter with a small bag of tools. Hardly the plumbing trucks I'm used to that carry a whole shop's worth of supplies and equipment. Even today, knowing they have to tear out and replace some pipe, they arrive with just a sledgehammer and a few basic tools.
I really hope we have water restored by this evening so we don't have to try to book a room at the Fortune Galaxy Hotel! Lon has already spent enough time there!
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