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We just had a huge-ass downpour go through...and I finally found out what's under the squares of plywood set into the basement floor.
Uncapped pipes. Not sewage, thankfully.
Our downstairs neighbor knocked on the back door about 5 minutes ago, saying "you gotta see the flood in the basement!" I knew that water has been known to come in under the door to the outside, but this was worse. Yes, it was coming through the door, but...
The trash room (it has a 2-inch threshold so the water was contained) had about an inch of water on the floor and one of the plywood squares was askew. She said that it was literally spewing water five minutes before...it was now silent, but very backed up.
A second plywood square in a 'hallway' leading to a couple of the storage units down there was newly disturbed. Our two units are on the other side, near the boiler room, but there is also a plywood square and an outside entrance on that side--I'm just about to go down (with shoes this time) and check on ours. The neighbor already called maintenance and will let me know if the water needs to be shut off to fix this.
(who would use plywood to cap off water pipes?)
Uncapped pipes. Not sewage, thankfully.
Our downstairs neighbor knocked on the back door about 5 minutes ago, saying "you gotta see the flood in the basement!" I knew that water has been known to come in under the door to the outside, but this was worse. Yes, it was coming through the door, but...
The trash room (it has a 2-inch threshold so the water was contained) had about an inch of water on the floor and one of the plywood squares was askew. She said that it was literally spewing water five minutes before...it was now silent, but very backed up.
A second plywood square in a 'hallway' leading to a couple of the storage units down there was newly disturbed. Our two units are on the other side, near the boiler room, but there is also a plywood square and an outside entrance on that side--I'm just about to go down (with shoes this time) and check on ours. The neighbor already called maintenance and will let me know if the water needs to be shut off to fix this.
(who would use plywood to cap off water pipes?)
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