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Mistress Rose

Joined: 21 Jul 2011
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Posted: Wed Nov 02, 22 6:50 am Post subject:
Funny to hear, but you must have been extremely upset at the time.

NorthernMonkeyGirl

Joined: 10 Apr 2011
Posts: 4630
Location: Peeping over your shoulder

Posted: Wed Nov 02, 22 9:59 am Post subject:
I have booked a plumber.... A few too many bits and pieces not quite going right. We're also going to cut off and remove the header tank I didn't know I had, apparently the result of corner-cutting when they first replaced a hot water cylinder with a boiler.

Nicky cigreen

Joined: 25 Jun 2007
Posts: 9887
Location: Devon, uk

Posted: Wed Nov 02, 22 11:15 am Post subject:

Mistress Rose wrote:

Funny to hear, but you must have been extremely upset at the time.

too right I was. This happened at about 11pm, took unli about 3 am before I had mopped it up, dragged ruined carpets out etc. The plumber was good and got to me at 10 am. which, with the water turned off means..
I didn't get a coffee until after 10 am

Hairyloon

Joined: 20 Nov 2008
Posts: 15425
Location: Today I are mostly being in Yorkshire.

Posted: Wed Nov 02, 22 5:11 pm Post subject:
Given the damage caused by a pipe joint failure, and the fact that the supplier would be liable if it was due to the product, if push fit plumbing joints were not very reliable, then nobody would stock them. That said, they do need to be fitted correctly and they do seem to have a habit of pretending to be right when they're not.

Mistress Rose

Joined: 21 Jul 2011
Posts: 16006

Posted: Thu Nov 03, 22 8:13 am Post subject:

No coffee until after 10 am!!!! Disaster. Not good about the carpets either.

We got in one day from work, many years ago now when our son was quite young, and found a waterfall in our hall. A pipe had parted in the roof (it was a bungalow then) and was cascading down a crack in the ceiling. Luckily the crack was there or the whole ceiling would have come down. As it was it lifted all the parquet flooring and we had to replace it.

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