From: Jessica Murray <death.to.koalas@gmail.com>
To: the initial landlord
hi.
i have a check for you this month, but i'm wondering how you'd feel about setting up an automatic deposit thing? i could avoid paying the bank for checks that way. if you don't want to, i'll buy some checks, it's not that big a deal (i just don't really want to pay the bank...).
as for the shower. i finished sealing around everywhere i could see that would conceivably cause flooding, and it didn't make a difference. it really seems clear to me that the leaking is coming from the drain. so, i'm going to run through my perception of the thing again...
normally, when you have a tub of some sort, it fills up as the water falls because the drain can't handle all the water coming at once. i'm thinking the better mental comparison (and the mental comparison is for me - i'm not trained in this subject, i'm just trying to understand what's happening) is to a public shower stall at a swimming pool or something. in such a situation, you would expect the water to fill up in pools around the corner of the stall and drain slowly afterwards, if at all, due to things like bumps in the floor. it seems to me to be that this is roughly what's happening.
that leaves two possible solutions. either the drain could be sealed up to force the water to pool on top of the shower rather than underneath it or the base could be sealed so that when the water pools it's trapped underneath the base. but i don't think the water can be stopped from pooling in one or the other place.
both of those approaches have some problems. sealing around the platform is not something i'd be comfortable doing myself because i'd be afraid i'd end up sealing water in, which could blow up the platform on the other side. *so i won't do that myself*. sealing the drain would make it difficult to get in there to pull hair out.
i think there may be an easy answer, though. looking at the drain carefully suggests that it's actually missing a piece or something. there was clearly *something* ringing around the drain at one point. first, the plastic is rough. second, it seems like it isn't tight.
i suspect it may be possible to merely put a rubber stopper of some sort around the drain. hopefully, that would keep the water in the platform.
i don't know how to dismantle the drain though. i want to be careful not to break it, so i'm stopping myself from just taking a screwdriver to it. could you send me instructions as to how to take the drain out so i can experiment with some kind of stopper?
j