Wednesday 20 January 2010

The Saga of our Water leak part 1

Hello Friends, heres some more misfortune for you to share with us along with a timely warning ....

The story

About a week ago the cold feed pipe to our washer developed a leak sending blessed H2O spurting everywhere in the washhouse, no problem you may think turn off the water and call a plumber ....

Ah ... for some unknown reason the washhouse water is not on the same circuit as the main house ..its a completely independant feed ....

No problem you say, the plumber can turn the water off at the main stoptap in the street ....

Ah .. for some unknown reason the council have tarmaced over the stoptaps

No problem you say ..ring the council

Ah ... it is 3pm on a Saturday afternoon ..I ring the council emergency line to be greeted by the usual robot ... "Were sorry but the council offices are now closed, our hours of business...etc etc." THIS IS THE EMERGENCY LINE FOR F**KS SAKE ARRRRGH

meanwhile the water continues to pour into the washhouse.. it is now about 2 inches deep ....

Monday arrives after a frantic weekend of mopping tryin to keep the water level down and off I trot to the council office ...

The inspector will be with you TOMMORROW !!!

Tuesday arrives ... our insurance assessor arrives to view the damage, no sign of the council bloke yet ....

Tuesday 4pm council bloke arrives, says I have located the stoptap but we didn't bury it ....EXCUSE ME, BUT I SAW THE WARRINGTON COUNCIL FLATBED TRANSIT WITH THE TARMAC ON THE BACK ARRIVE, I CHATTED TO THE GUYS AS THEY WERE FILLING IN THE HOLES IN THE PAVEMENT !!!

besides .. you've located the stoptap whoopee we still cant get at it and the water level continues to rise ...

WEDNESDAY .. and the Water inspector arrives, locates the stoptap and attempts to unearth it ...UNFORTUNATELY ..it is embedded in a lot of tarmac so they will have to get their street gang to unearth it ..

How long will that take?

Because of the weather we are dealing with a lot of this .. it could take up to 90 days .....

AAAAAARRRGGGGHHH


to be continued ........

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