PROBLEM: The ceiling is leaking.
SOLUTION: Call landlord. Put bowls under drips until we can get maintenance here.
PROBLEM: Leak water falls ~6ft and splashes mightily from the bowls, getting all over the kitchen counter.
SOLUTION: Nail twine to ceiling, crossing where the water oozes through, then dropping down to the bowl. Capillary action brings all the water down in a slower fashion.
PROBLEM: Diverting all water to one bowl makes it fill up way too fast.
SOLUTION: Tie a few more pieces of twine to the bit running across multiple drips, descending to the other bowls.
I feel like fucking MacGyver here.
Can you use the twine capillary action to direct the drips into your sink?
Hmm. I don’t think so, there’s a cabinet in the way and it’d have to go pretty close to horizontal for a while. I’d consider playing with that if they weren’t gonna come open up the ceiling and figure out what’s happening later today.
Whoever or whatever is over you should have a manual cut off valve where it is leaking from. Try knocking on the door and explaining the issue. Ask them to manually shut the valve if the leaking faucet or check the drains where you think it’s coming from. Source: am maintenance
Maintenance came the next day and finally figured out what’s going on. Thanks though!