A small leak

4 weeks ago tomorrow, I looked up at the kitchen ceiling and noticed a dark wet spot with a small crack in the middle.

 

Uh oh. 

And thus began the very expensive, month long process of repairing the leak from our master bathroom shower that is still not complete. 

We called a disaster repair company who came out and determined the leak was from the outer right corner of our shower. We started showering in the girls' bathroom and two days later they came back and put up this:

 Yup. Right smack in the middle of our kitchen. They opened up a huge hole in our ceiling to clear out any mold and then turned on a very loud fan and dehumidifier and a heater in our bathroom to dry things out, which ran for 4 days over Easter weekend. That was really fun. Then the plumber came came a determined that it was not a plumbing leak, but a leak from water getting out through the shower door and in between the tile and the drywall. So we caulked up the wall and put some towels by the door to soak up any excess water. Meanwhile, the disaster company came back, declared everything good, and said the repair guys would contact us the next day. 2 weeks later, we had no progress but one or two rounds of phone tag. At this point we were so frustrated, so we contacted another guy who did drywall who came and patched it up last week and took down the containment area.

Lance painted the ceiling on Monday night, and we can finally use out kitchen again! All that's left is putting the light back up and getting new shower door- which should hopefully happen tomorrow. We'll see if the original company ever comes back to pick up their equipment and get their payment for the work they did...