Dripping ceiling & uncooperative neighbour

[Nathlal]

Hi guys, I woke up to the sound of dripping water from the ceiling in the corridor which is next to he toilet. I live on the 1st floor, I called up property management who had a look & then called the intercom of the 2nd floor with no reply. We saw they had just opened their balcony door so they called them on their mobile, requesting to check wheres the source of the leakage. They said no, as they still are sleeping?!

So now I've got the engineer round later this morning, is there anything I can do in this case or anyone had similar experience? Tks all

[Peaky]

Wow that's a special kind of neighbour you've got there. Wait until 9.30am

Reminds me of the look of horror my team had when they heard I get to the office at 8am. “When do you sleep?!”

[chuckster007]

dripping water and u want them to open and allow people into their house at 7am?? HELL NO!!! its not an emergency, come back in the afternoon

[aw451]

Constantly dripping water in a concrete structure will lower the PH of the concrete and eventually cause spalling out which significantly weakens the structure.

If they don't answer you can get the owners' corporation involved and when they do nothing, you can raise a complaint with 1823 and in theory they will send someone from one of the government organisations round which may or may not be effective

[Coolboy]

Hi guys, I woke up to the sound of dripping water from the ceiling in the corridor which is next to he toilet. I live on the 1st floor, I called up property management who had a look & then called the intercom of the 2nd floor with no reply. We saw they had just opened their balcony door so they called them on their mobile, requesting to check wheres the source of the leakage. They said no, as they still are sleeping?!

So now I've got the engineer round later this morning, is there anything I can do in this case or anyone had similar experience? Tks all

Sue the asshole.

[Paxbritannia]

Contact the Joint Office of the Buildings Department and FEHD which deals with water leak complaints. They will force their way in and do their own testing.

[ramelec]

I suggest your first line of contact: https://www.1823.gov.hk/en
Then they will escalate to relevant departments

[dinosaurs88]

dripping water can afftect the electrical wires in your your apartment and not make it safe.

Upstairs are responsible for this. Make sure you take photos and management also sees and make sure managment record it in their log book.
You can put in a claim for them to pay. The property owner should be insured and covered by third party insurance.

[dinosaurs88]

Since the water is coming from upstairs, you can get management to turn off ALL their water supply!
since there is flooding.

[dinosaurs88]

are you renting, if you are renting then send the photos etc to your own landlord and tell him what is going on, and he will go ballistic.

If the walls are wet they will need to be repainted, and the electricity supply checked as well...