It's actually a good thing that I had to reset the pilot light on my water heater again. Because of that, I discovered the rather dramatic leak in the basement. The landlord was at a wedding when I called him; he told me to tell one of the new upstairs tenants (the landlord's daughter's boyfriend), who works for a contractor. G immediately judged ( Read more... )

It worked! I have hot water! Hip-hip-HOORAY ( Read more... )

...as in, I wish I were ( Read more... )

After several years of warning visitors of the potentially-scalding tapwater in my building, this morning I managed to burn three fingertips while washing my face ( Read more... )

I have hot water! And heat!

The word is that the heat still needs work, but it's on for now.

Not only do we still not have heat, as the outside temperature dipped into the 30s last night (and again tonight and tomorrow night), but now we don't have hot water either. Apparently they fried something when they went to reconnect the boiler. They're going to "try" to get the hot water working again tomorrow, but "no promises ( Read more... )