01-01-2011, 04:21 PM
Hello everybody:
I am wishing y'all a
HAPPY NEAR YEAR
from Berlin !
Unfortunately my new years eve festivities were a bit tainted (to put it mildly)... because yesterday afternoon - a few hours before I was due for my 'new years eve-dinner' at a friends' house, I walked into my studio (right next to my appartment) and saw a giant wet spot on the carpeted floor and water coming down heavyily from the ceiling, right in the middle of the room where the electric lamp is hanging from above.
(I had almost switched on the light, stopping a few inches before the switch - on impulse.... maybe the whole place would have exploded or something).
After so many days of snow and very low temperatures we experienced a sudden rise of about 9 or 10 degrees yesterday, so apparently there was rapidly melting snow that somehow managed to get from the ceiling/6th floor in between the walls....and finally coming out on my 5th floor.
Of all days of the year this had to happen yesterday..... and of all rooms it had to happen in the one room that is crammed w/ hi-end studio equipment (incl. many very valuable vintage pieces!!) and computers etc.
So..... I'd like to apologize already in advance... but now it seems I will have even less time in the next weeks (for mansion design & the forums), considering all the trouble that awaits me (incl. a hundred phone calls, angry letters to the landlords etc.).
Although the water has stopped sometime late last night (we assume it's because it started to get a bit colder again in the night) - I'm now living in the constant fear that it could continue/happen again any time ....!! :-[ :o :-? :'( :'(
Wish me luck.
I am wishing y'all a
HAPPY NEAR YEAR
from Berlin !
Unfortunately my new years eve festivities were a bit tainted (to put it mildly)... because yesterday afternoon - a few hours before I was due for my 'new years eve-dinner' at a friends' house, I walked into my studio (right next to my appartment) and saw a giant wet spot on the carpeted floor and water coming down heavyily from the ceiling, right in the middle of the room where the electric lamp is hanging from above.
(I had almost switched on the light, stopping a few inches before the switch - on impulse.... maybe the whole place would have exploded or something).
After so many days of snow and very low temperatures we experienced a sudden rise of about 9 or 10 degrees yesterday, so apparently there was rapidly melting snow that somehow managed to get from the ceiling/6th floor in between the walls....and finally coming out on my 5th floor.
Of all days of the year this had to happen yesterday..... and of all rooms it had to happen in the one room that is crammed w/ hi-end studio equipment (incl. many very valuable vintage pieces!!) and computers etc.
So..... I'd like to apologize already in advance... but now it seems I will have even less time in the next weeks (for mansion design & the forums), considering all the trouble that awaits me (incl. a hundred phone calls, angry letters to the landlords etc.).
Although the water has stopped sometime late last night (we assume it's because it started to get a bit colder again in the night) - I'm now living in the constant fear that it could continue/happen again any time ....!! :-[ :o :-? :'( :'(
Wish me luck.