Mains, springs, leaks and holes
Blimey what a day
First thing it looked a bit like this: 
It's an ill wind that blows no good, and Maddie the cat thought the running water drinking fountain we had installed for her was really quite nice.
Phoned the insurance people, the bad news is they won't pay for it. Now we COULD wait for the water board to decide to fix it for free (or not cos it's a shared main), in their own time, (2-3 weeks) during which time damage would be done to the house because of the water pooling against the render, and the insurance WOULD pay for that. But because we want to ensure we don't get any damage done and want to get it fixed quickly, we have to pay for it ourselves.
Found a very nice plumber chap this morning who said he could get to us this afternoon, unfortunately their morning's work did not go to plan and they could not get out. Having already taken one day off work I started to panic and phoned the builder who did our extension work (and lives locally). He and his dad came to the rescue.
Looking for the other end of the pipe:
And here's where we are tonight, no leaks, but one hell of a muddy mess!
They will come back saturday to finish and clean up.
For now I am pretending the front garden does not exist.
2 comments:
Wow, I take my eyes off your blog for a couple of days and look what happens!! Which reminds me, I must get accidental damage added to our contents insurance...before it's too late... Hope your garden etc all gets sorted relatively painlessly!!
That marrow stuff looks a bit scrummy. Might have to try that... yum...
Em
You won't want to hear this, but apart from when you leave him unsupervised and he goes out to get a job, it's quite handy having a partner who is a multi-skilled tradesperson.
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