Thursday 5 January 2012

35 whizzkid plumber!

A series of watery disasters! One of our roof windows is leaking again, the guttering above it gets clogged up with stuff, Roger's department! The flat Laura's selling has a leaky gutter, a very minor problem but causing her buyer to panic! Amy's got a leak by the roof hatch: definitely wasn't there when I decorated, on inspection it looks as though the new flue is letting water in, until she cleared the spare room for her lodger it was trickling down into the boiler cupboard, where the ceiling is warped. A poly-clad packet of coving is now funnelling it down to the edge of the hatch. The fitters are coming to look tomorrow, but now her heating's packed up, possibly the pump, luckily it's still under guarantee. The final disaster was a puddle on the bathroom floor, Laura noticed it a few days ago but thought she'd just been mucky getting out of the shower, but it was a leak from the bottom of the cistern, the seal was really loose, & the floor under the carpet looked as though it had been happening for ages, but can't think it was 12 years (when the bathroom was done) but also can't work out how it loosened itself. It was like one of those puzzle boxes to dismantle it, each bit had to be removed before anything else would move. Now all done, and working again with no plumber's fee, might go out & spend it on frivolities!

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