Wednesday 27 January 2010

The Saga of our Water leak part 2

to continue the story .....


Miracle of Miracles the Water board guys turned up the FOLLOWING day ...Hurrah!!

UNFORTUNATELY ..the stop tap that had been located turned out to be a GAS stop tap..Doh!!!

SO ..now we have a hole in the pavement outside and water is still pouring in to the wash house .....

then a stroke of luck .. while digging up the gas stoptap the water engineers also decided to unearth next doors water stoptap from its tarmaccy grave while they were at it ..this gave the water inspector access to that tap and she came back to try it ...

WONDER OF WONDERS ..the water to both houses stopped ...WHOOPEE now we can call the plumber back in :)

he arrives later that day ..and fixes original leak ..YES!! ......

UNFORTUNATELY ....as water is turned back on pipe below the fix fractures and a torrent of water sprays out at full pressure ....ARRGGHHH

Off goes the water AGAIN and the plumber calls his mate who specialises in fixing Lead pipework in ....

2 hours later said friend arrives ... "oh shit says he" on seeing the mess .. OK were gonna have to dig the pipe out to fix it ....

Net result ...

Water leak fixed ....HOORAY !!! :)

BUT.... we now have a large hole in the floor of the washhouse ....Doh !!

Ah well at least the room is no longer flooding :)

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