We recently moved out of our casita into a newly built two bdrm apt a few blocks away; we now rent our casita to mi esposa's sister.
Like most folks, we've got a 1000 liter tinaco for water on our roof that's fed from a cistern.* This is more than enough for us for a week, which is how often it's supposed to be filled, and it worked for our first two months, no problem.
But this did not happen last week.* We're in an ten complex and the last time they manually turned on the pump, the cistern went dry before our tank got any water.* That was Friday.* We could hear the pump running so we thought we had been topped off.* We did laundry on Saturday morning thinking our tinaco was full, and then we ran out of water in the afternoon. The landlord got the cistern refilled yesterday(Monday), confirming the cistern had gone dry and he was aware of the problem.* He's also put a new padlock on the cistern to prevent anyone from dipping into it with a bucket for five pesos worth of water.
This has not gone over well with us.* We're buying water off the trucks but only have a couple buckets in the house(and the washer), because why should we need buckets?* When mi esposa talked to the landlord asking him to refill the tinaco from the now full cistern, he talked down to her and said she just needs to be more careful about using the water that he has to pay for.* No more water in the tinaco until Friday.* We sure as hell didn't go through 1000 liters doing four loads of laundry.* We didn't go through half that in a week when we were in the casita and only had a 55 gallon plastic drum and a few buckets.
In other news, we've just found a new apt and we're hoping to be moving before Christmas.* Same price, better neighborhood, and no hassles with water.*
Like most folks, we've got a 1000 liter tinaco for water on our roof that's fed from a cistern.* This is more than enough for us for a week, which is how often it's supposed to be filled, and it worked for our first two months, no problem.
But this did not happen last week.* We're in an ten complex and the last time they manually turned on the pump, the cistern went dry before our tank got any water.* That was Friday.* We could hear the pump running so we thought we had been topped off.* We did laundry on Saturday morning thinking our tinaco was full, and then we ran out of water in the afternoon. The landlord got the cistern refilled yesterday(Monday), confirming the cistern had gone dry and he was aware of the problem.* He's also put a new padlock on the cistern to prevent anyone from dipping into it with a bucket for five pesos worth of water.
This has not gone over well with us.* We're buying water off the trucks but only have a couple buckets in the house(and the washer), because why should we need buckets?* When mi esposa talked to the landlord asking him to refill the tinaco from the now full cistern, he talked down to her and said she just needs to be more careful about using the water that he has to pay for.* No more water in the tinaco until Friday.* We sure as hell didn't go through 1000 liters doing four loads of laundry.* We didn't go through half that in a week when we were in the casita and only had a 55 gallon plastic drum and a few buckets.
In other news, we've just found a new apt and we're hoping to be moving before Christmas.* Same price, better neighborhood, and no hassles with water.*