Okay, I’m not quite done ranting about the City yet.
Thursday morning the City turned off the water in my neighbourhood while they repaired something that was causing a flood on the street. Thursday night they turned the water back on.
Everything was normal except for the bathtub. When I turned the taps on, no water came out.
This morning I called the City to notify them so they could come and fix it. They informed me it’s not their problem. Since there is water coming into the house, they’ve restored water service to me and anything beyond that point is my problem.
“Call a plumber,” they said.
My plumbing worked just fine until they messed with it, and now I have to pay someone to fix what they broke? Is that reasonable?
Tensions are definitely escalating between me and the City.
UPDATE UPDATE UPDATE
An old plumber friend offered to come over and fix it.
Before that could happen, the City called back and said they would fix it.
Before that could happen, it magically fixed itself!
elves
Do you think that the city employees are now reading the blog and don’t want any more bad press from you?
Elves? In that case, I hope it was elves who FIXED it, not elves who BROKE it.
Deb, that would be nice if Larry and the City employees made a point of reading my blog while making their daily to-do lists. (LARRY: STEP DOWN!)
I agree. it was probably the elves that helped fix your tub.
I hope it’s all working now.
Merry Christmas!
– J.
Kingston did the same thing (shutting off water without notice) to my parents’ condo downtown and when they turned it back on again, the toilet wouldn’t work and the pressure caused a leak in another pipe. I told them they should round up everyone in the condo who had plumbing issues and get them to send their bills to city hall.