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Small panic this morning when the lass who works in the shop underneath my flat rang my buzzer to tell me there was a leak coming through their ceiling. So despite having plans I had to sit in waiting for the landlord to send a plumber out. Except nothing in my place was leaking, & the water is coming from somewhere in the middle, where there's only empty floor. After some investigation, it seems to be a blocked gutter that's backed up with water from all the recent rainy weather, overflowed & spilled into a hole or crack of some kind in the roof of the lower floor where the shop is (which is slightly bigger than my flat), which has then taken a circuitous route through the shop's ceiling until it found a weak point.

Annoying that I wasted a day, but at least it didn't mean extensive repairs to my flat.