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Originally Posted by wooohooo
I live in a Condo and one of the pipes burst about a month or two ago and they 'fixed' it by putting a piece of cloth and taping it. No problems for those few months, but today they come in (without notice) to fix the pipes.
I wasn't home when they did the repair, but when I came home today after work around 7, there was steam everywhere. I looked in the closet about 6x8' it was over an inch full of water on the floor with the pipe supposedly 'fixed' spewing water like old faithful. The ceiling now has water damage from both the steam and water hitting it and the drywall is all soaked. The water got high enough that it seeped through the drywall and into my kitchen about 15 feet away.
We called the plumber who 'fixed' it and he brought his shop vac to suck up all the water. He's now sucking water out of the downstairs unit.
Problem is I have a few things in my closet that are now wet.
We own the condo, and this pipe is the feeder for the entire condo. Since the water got all our things wet/documents etc. do we get restitution money from this? How about the drywall, flooring, baseboards etc? Is sucking up the water with a shop vac good enough?
Thanks!
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Here is what you can expect to happen.
Your insurance company will pay for all contents damage. The condo association witll get the pipe fixed and when it is all complete they will hand you, as the owner of the condo, a bill for the repair on the pipe as it happend in your unit.......now this bill can also be sumbitted to your insurance company and they will take care of it as well.
That is assuming you have Condo insurance.
I hope this helps.
I am a broker for home and auto so I know this to be fact.