one of your rental unit?

have you talked to the management office's folks? common structural defects goes under them..

if it's a prevailing/ongoing problem.. they can shut down the pipe that traverse the section that you displayed in the photo and re-route the flow onto another new pipe/route..

you can seldom fix such internal damages on your own.. it's prohibitively costly and plus, it touches the common structure and you'll need management permission to hack, fix and seal.. definitely no diy department here..

hhmmnn... on second thought, it might not be a pipe leaking problem (suspicious of internal pipes going perpendicular to each other).. a possibility that the floor above you had an overflow of water? anyway, talk to the management office.. they can mediate both ways for you (if the tenant above is causing the problem, that is)

This post has been edited by lwb: May 6 2009, 11:41 PM

alot of people just know how to buy a property..

landlording is a challenging job and most of the time, money is not the only quick-fix solution around..

the know-how.. who to refer to, understanding one's right, etc. are very much lacking..

you see, ts started with "how"(to fix it).. forgetting the importance of "who"(to refer to) instead..

the end result will be the same.. but paths are many.

only fools will pick a fight reserved for fools.. that's why you keep to such assumption all the time.

i don't quite get what you're trying to rant about here..

i recommended ts to refer to the management office(for remedy or arbitration) and that was what he did..

so how does the issue of who's being smarter, arises here?

it's a high probability that you've not encountered this sort of issue in a strata titled property before..

perhaps to you, it's just a complain (another sad piss malaysian mentality being displayed here).. there's prudence behind "talking" to the management and it's another sad piss that you view it so negatively..