Steven L. wrote:
On 2/7/2013 6:29 PM, Doug wrote:
On Wed, 06 Feb 2013 09:27:55 -0500, "Steven L."
wrote:

I live in an apartment, and the living room ceiling near the deck
has a rain leak: During the biggest rainstorms, some water drips
down onto my carpet from one particular spot on the ceiling. There's a
stain on the ceiling there too.

I've had the maintenance people in my apartment twice, but so far
they have failed to fix the problem. They'll have to try again
next week. While they're still trying to figure it out, is there some
*temporary* fix I can use to stop the water from dripping from the
ceiling every time there's a big storm?

Silicone caulk?
Rope caulk?
Anything else?


Steven, whatever you do, just want to wish you luck especially with
the snow storm coming. If possible, can you keep us up to date down
the road? Stay warm and safe.

Thanks, I appreciate it.

The good news is that my ceiling survived the blizzard and subsequent
thaw!
But I suspect that it was my own desperate repair--rather than the
maintenance people's repairs--that did the trick.

When I looked at the outside wall from the vantage point of my own
deck, I could see some HUGE holes in the mortar (I could stuff 4 of my
fingers right between the bricks), at just above the point where the
leak stains are visible in my ceiling.

That cannot be a coincidence!

So THAT is the hole I plugged myself.
And I think that did the trick.

Thanks for the follow-up update. Seems like you fixed it, at least
temporarily. And, since you wrote:

I could see some HUGE holes in the mortar (I could stuff 4 of my
fingers right between the bricks), at just above the point where the
leak stains are visible in my ceiling. ,

I think that is probably where the problem is located.