Trouble Comes in Threes

To say that the house has had some issues lately might be understating it. I must mention that prior to the hole in the kitchen ceiling event, we had clogged drains. This was a clog caused somewhere in the neighbourhood that managed to work it's way up to our house. We have this pit/chamber in the garage--which is at the front of the house. It filled up and oozed over, so that the foot of the garage and the driveway were not smelling too fresh. Super YUK! Thankfully, the builders that did all of the work on the house are kind enough to be "on call" for us and came that very day and unclogged it. It wasn't a problem that they caused--but they solved it for us anyway. Sometimes, playing the dumb card is a great thing...

Anyway, that was event number 1 (even though it smelled like number 2), the kitchen leak was event number 2--and now, we've had...you guessed it--event number 3.
Our house is called a semi-detached--which means that we share a common wall with our neighbours. They moved in about a month after we did and have started to do some renovation of their own. Namely, knocking down chimney breasts that are on the commmon wall.
Whilst a noisy activity, it didn't become a problem until Sunday--when one swing of the sledgehammer on the opposite wall pushed a brick through a smidge--which broke out a section of the plaster on our dining room wall.

Thankfully (I guess), we have not painted our dining room or done anything in the way of decorating in there. A hole about as big as a dinner plate was punched out of the wall and the beautiful plasterwork is now crumbled. The walls that our plasterer did are as smooth as silk.

By Friday, the neighbour's plasterer had come over to start the repair. It will be finished on Monday or Tuesday. Paulster was home on Friday when the plasterer came over to see the damage and get a game plan for repair. The plasterer commented what a nice job the plaster was--to which Paulster replied--"I'm sure you can match it". He'd better--or it'll get redone. GGGRRRR!

I'll post pictures of the damage and repair next week. I'm just sure this is the end of our house issues for a while--don't they say trouble comes in threes?