September 10, 2007: Waterproof suspended ceiling

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It's Neatorama collaboration Monday!



Today's entry is from a site called English Russia where they often find interesting items in Russian and translate them for the rest of the world's enjoyment.

Their entry suggests that many Russian suspended ceilings are like this. And frankly it's a fine idea, because I'm sure many of us are going to weigh in with stories of how the upstairs neighbor made a mistake and left us with an unintentional flood.



I know I have a story, and it's not the neighbors but bad plumbing that allowed the upstairs shower to drip greywater out of an electrical connection, ruining part of a ceiling.

(greywater: now there's a vocabulary word for ya.)



But that can't happen here. I can't imagine that every ceiling is set up this way...



It looks like you could get rid of the excess by putting something under the leak and poking it with a pin.

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