id love to work here. it took 2 guys 45 minutes to change the petcock in the toilet tank. then when they left it failed to flush at all. so of course i had to go my hands wet and re adjust the chain to the flapper.
it was the actually the 4 inch pipe from that wax seal to the main sewer pipe. they had to call a plumber to fix. as you can see by the repair work they do, cutting a hole in a wall is a last resort.
the main super told me last winter, (why they had 20 guys shoveling it off of snow) was because one apt had a nasty leak that got so bad they ended up having to move them to another apt.
then she tells me they just found out it was the roof drain. now i can see this roof it has no drains, its all through wall scuppers to a leader heads thats nailed to the wall with a leader pipe to the ground, its also 3 storys tall. pipe freezes solid the leader head fills up, then its creeps into the warm air its getting from the bad seal on the wall. its a wick that dont stop leaking till the ice is gone.
when she said what it was i was like to bad i didnt talk to you sooner, next time rip the leader head off and hammer the ice off the wall and the leak stops. its called ice creep and a failed scupper seal on the out side. aka crap roofer sealed, and the other 3 crews of roofers also missed this.
now moral of the story is, if they had cut a hole in the wall they would have seen the leak coming from the scupper a long ass time ago.
thank god these guys dont need a boiler lic, no way they would pass the test. we got electric everything here, even the heat.
