The repairmen are supposed to be coming round this morning at 9 am to sort out the drainage, air conditioning and intercom once and for all, but I am not holding my breath. Aida, one of the girls in the office, makes a comment that 9 am Malaysian time will be more like midday, but I have more hope: and rightly so –they turn up at 8:55!
Air conditioning: apparently the reason why it is leaking is because the drainage pipe is blocked, and all the humid waster has backed up into the unit and that's why it's flooding. This drainage pipe emptied out into the spare bathroom’s drain…
Ah.
I remember just after I moved in that there was a continuous ‘drip, drip, drip’ noise coming from the bathroom, and I thought it was a leaking water pipe in the wall, as I couldn’t work out where else this water would be coming from. Anyway, as I knew that I would tune into it at night and probably not be able to sleep, I stuffed some loo paper into the pipe to muffle the noise. The handyman pulled this loo roll out and we all looked at each other shaking our heads, tutting, wondering how on Earth it got there. Must have been the cleaner…
Intercom: it wasn’t working because it wasn’t wired in to anything – the bloody thing was just for show! Anyway, one of the workmen rewired it for me and I managed to call and speak to the concierge guy several times (just to make sure it worked properly), who was a bit confused as to what I was doing, keep ringing him up and pressing all the buttons.
Drainage: there was a block so they got this super-sized hoover thing, rather like one of those poo-suckers you get to empty out portable loos at festivals and cleared my blockage.
Hoorah! All those little niggly things were done – I could relax now.
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