There was a bit of a commotion yesterday evening. but it all calmed down so I didn't get involved.
Today, this evening, a Transit van turns up and A throws a few things in the back then my door bell goes. She tells me they are moving out for a few weeks because the kitchen floor has collapsed!
The poor things have had a pretty hard time of their lease. Before they moved in the guy next to me, upstairs flat, had a leak in his bathroom. It brought down the ceiling in the bathroom in the flat below his. The floors in it and the kitchen had to be replaced because of all the damage. What was unknown at the time was that the water had tracked across the joists and into the flat below me.
When S&A moved in they were always complaining of damp.... now we know why. Sometime last year A and one of the toddlers were in the bath when it fell through the floor - capsized! It only dropped a few inches, but the survey showed that the joists had rotted. Now the kitchen floor has gone the same way! At least they will get a new kitchen out of it and the little ones will love being in an hotel for a while.
