Question by : What can we do to seal our flooring?
Ok, the room we live in was added on to our roommates/house owner’s house before they bought it. It was VERY crappily built. So just about every time it rains, our room floods and we have to move ALL our stuff into the garage and sleep there for a few nights until our room dries. Unfortunately our roommates just got puppies! So they have taken over the garage now, and its covered in pee and poop, so we can no longer move in there to avoid the flood water.

The owner of the house/oldest roommate said there’s no point in sealing the room and to not do it. We later found our that they’re tearing down our room in June and rebuilding another one correctly for their parents/grandparents. However, what are we supposed to do now?

For now I am lining the room with my boyfriends and my clothes, however its only preventing some water. I don’t have much clothes to begin with, so this is kinda bad for me. We ARE going to move asap, however I need a job to do this. My boyfriends paycheck cant pay for EVERYTHING.

Basically the water comes in where the floor and wall meet, which leaves me to believe the room needs to be sealed. However, in some spots, in between the floor boards, water seeps up if ANY pressure is applied.

So my questions:
*Do we need to seal the room, or is it another problem?
*How do we fix the leaks coming from inbetween the flood boards in the middle of the room?
*What is the name of a decent sealant that we could buy at WalMart or Home Depot? How much?
*What else can we do?

And please, dont tell me to tell the roommates to pay for it, cause they refuse to. We’ve tried.
We had 3 rows of rolled up towels and it didn’t work. Fabrics get saturated with water.

We’re trying to move, but I need the job first, can’t do anything until then. Hmm maybe I should dig a trench/moat so the water goes into that first. Roommates wouldn’t like that..

There’s isn’t anything to do?

Best answer:

Answer by W
Go to walmart, buy a bunch of cheap towels and roll them up and put them all along the baseboards where the water is coming in. and spread some out over the floor.

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Question by guardianofthemoon: Renters Question: Am I Out Of Luck Here?
Ok, I just moved into a house that I am renting. I have 3 daughters. When we moved in the landlord insisted there would be a stove and fridge, as I am having a difficult time, that was a concern of mine.He did tell me that he was going to replace the existing stove and fridge with other ones, his exact words were “We can do you one better” and I told him after moving in that we were very happy with the ones we had, and that we would prefer to keep them, yet he insisted.

So Saturday, he has some guys come and take the old ones out. Now, he tells me that in total this move will take an hour max, so to put my food on ice and it should be fine. Well, the guys come and don’t come back for 4 hours, I lost everything I had. At least $ 100 worth of food, and my income can not sustain that at this time.

When “his boys” do show up, the stove is older but it’s fine, it works yeah! But the fridge is disgusting. First, it came out of his garage and is covered with mold all around the door edges, I took bleach and tried to clean it, but to my dismay it won’t come off. I called him, he basicaly tells me that this is what I agreed to, and as to the food, sorry about my luck.

I was furious and hurt. I sent him an email stating that unless he would like me to take the rent money and buy a new fridge, he better give me a) either the old one back or b)supply me with one that was just as good.

Now, my question is, am I in the right to withhold rent for this situation. It is awful and no one would want to eat what comes out of this fridge. Here we are with the holidays coming up, and I have no way to store food. A new fridge is going to cost a lot, and even if I buy a used one, it is still going to cost me.

Does anyone else have any alternate suggestions. Or, am I doing the right thing? PS> this crappy fridge is also leaking water all over the floor. Really it is unusable.
Thanks
Guardianofthemoon

Best answer:

Answer by rojo
You dont have the right to withhold rent. He will sue & win. However, if u were to sue then maybe u could get that money back, but that again costs money & time. The funny thing is, u didnt really “agree” to new fridge he insisted. Its not right but if u just withhold rent youll be even worse off. Heres what I think he did. He wanted that fridge & stove for his own place & swapped them & made it seem like u were getting an upgrade. He scammed u. Find a new place & move out.

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Question by Smartypants53: Your sex bucket list?
This is mine and my friends:

bed
in the snow
parent’s room
chairlift
children’s ball pool
classroom
treehouse
fountain
closet
church
counter
graveyard
table
hot tub
on a mountain
pool
porch swing
couch
cave
arm chair
a (random) house under development
airplane bathroom
hood of car
the forest
washing machine (while it’s running)
during a large family event
shower
soft rug before roaring fire
canoe
motorcycle
beach
public restroom
meadow
train
amusement park
outside in the rain
car
deck of a yacht
truck bed
waterbed
trampoline
rooftop
random person’s car
under a waterfall
golf course
playground at night
public place
in a car while going through a carwash
fancy hotel
bathroom floor
elevator
bunkbed
sauna
mall
hot air balloon
changing room
bathtub
pool table
air mattress
tent
sleeping bag
limo
drive in movie
barn
hammock
cornfield
bouncy castle
scuba diving
up against a wall
pier/dock
ping pong table
lounge chair
zoo
igloo/snow cave
surfboard
sailboat
cliff during sunrise
massage chair
swingset
slide
covered slide
library
in a tree
orchard
on a blanket at center ice on a rink
back row movie theatre
under a christmas tree
phone booth
picture booth
museum
pile of leaves
someone else’s backyard
someone else’s pool
ferris wheel
in the australian outback
against a pillar in a parking garage
public transportation
floor
exercise machine

99 places! wooo! if anyone has anymore suggestions let me know, thanks!

Best answer:

Answer by Jack
Sex in a coffin? Crate?

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