I have been rubbish with this blog! It seemed like a really good idea at the time, but as with most things with me it seems to have been a five minute addiction! Saying that after reading my friends blog, Sarah and being very entertained by what she had to say I thought I would try again to 'blog'.
Friday evening was very eventful, we are currently decorating the front room and the house is a mess, half the furniture from the front room is in the kitchen/diner, we have no where to sit, apart from one armchair and a couple of bean bags. Anyway friday evening about 8pm I was in the kitchen and noticed the wooden floor was wet at the joins and the join was slightly raised, I assumed one of my sons had spilt something and not wiped it up but I decided to take of the fascia board off under the sink and have a look. Good job I did the floorboards were soaking, I could also see water pouring from the mains pipe. Hubbie checked it out and we had a leak in a joint below the stop cock so we couldn't turn off the water! So I did the first thing I always do in a crisis and that is RING DAD, Dad was a plumber by trade and is very good at DIY, he said switch on the taps to releive the pressure which was a good tip as this slowed down the water flow immediatley.
Dad said go outside and switch off the water from your external stop cock which should be just on the boundary of the property. Unfortunatley we couldn't do this because it was broken *PANIC* so I rang the waterboard, they said someone would come within the hour, so we sat and waited still with the taps running and rotating towells from the floor to the tumble dryer. The engineer came about an hour later but he couldn't turn the water off either! He said they needed to get a team of men out to dig up the road!! 10.30pm another team arrived and started digging up the road outside our house with pneumatic drills! By midnight they had managed to replace the external stop cock and the water finally could be turned off! PHEW! Thank goodness we weren't on a water meter. Saturday morning hubbie repaired the leak and the water was turned back on.
That just left me to clean all the saucepans and crap that was in the cupboard and put it all back again :-(
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