Household Disasters

[Zollo]

Just sprung a leak from a loo pipe! Had a massive jet a water, with huge - and I mean very, very large - amounts of pressure. Light bulbs blew, paint is pealing off walls, flat below has a leaking ceiling, and we've just got rid of about an inch of standing water.

Had to hold it off with my hand until the emergency plumber came around. Have a bruised hand and sore arm now .

Never seen so much water in a building before. Was like a fire hydrant going off. And it comes a week after we had 2 lumps of earth through our windows and copious amounts of mud and glass to clean up, courtesy of some little social-housing shits.

Aint life a bitch

[snakeylady]

God what a nightmare!! Hope you can claim on insurance - sounds like there's going to be lots of decoration needed.

[northy]

jesus....bet that was fun.

glad to hear its got sorted out.

[LEIGH-ANNE]

i feel like that sometimes mate!!!!

my little girl pulled the iron of the ironing board last week, landed (thankfully) on the new £1000 carpet

Now for the past couple of days my freezer has been gathering tooooo much ice so the door wont shut, hence everything going off!!!!

claimed on the carpet but freezer is a bit too old i think so gona have to spend on something other than my willy

Please feel free to laugh at my misfortune to make urself feel better

seriuosly tho, hope u can claim on the insurance

[2 live]

shitter when summat like that happens.........havent u got an internal stop tap that u can turn the water off at??


maybe a bit late now like but cudda saved u a lot of damage/bruised hands etc if u have

[TwisT]

if your going to claim on insurance make sure you get LOTS of pics of the damage, insurance is all the same with them trying to get out of it as im sure you know, and beware of 'betterment' where they want you to make an ever increasing contribution to the claim.

[Zollo]

Cheers for the advice people :D

Note going to bother with insurance, 'cos we managed to mop up and contain all the water in the bathroom before it did any damage else where. I'll do the painting myself. And the bill for the plumber was only £88 quid.

shitter when summat like that happens.........havent u got an internal stop tap that u can turn the water off at??


maybe a bit late now like but cudda saved u a lot of damage/bruised hands etc if u have

Yeah, I've learnt that now :P . Haven't got one now, but will be making sure the maintenance company put one of them in

[FATBOY]

thank god im a plumber myself! save me and my family loads of money! :0) what happened mate? was it a plastic ballvalve?if so was it the plastic threaded bit of the ballvalve that was persihed? where the pipe meets the ballvalve???

[Zollo]

There is an old metal elbow sticking out of the wall and a copper pipe coming from that supplying water to the loo. The way it goes from the wall to the cistern means that it sticks out quite a lot, however, and it kept getting knocked.

In the end, it had one knock to much and the copper pipe got knocked off the elbow. Couldn't have been knocked off after the release valve (or whatever it's called) could it?!

The plumber reckoned there must have been about 5 bar of pressure, does that sound right / a lot?

[2 live]

that sounds quite aq lot mate tbh lol

most of the water mains (yes the ones under the ground ouside ur house, 4" dia. +) run at about 40 m/h......which about 4 bar



but then i spose u have the accelaration effect of a 4"+ pipe to a 25mm lol