If I'd known how popular the posts on our plumbing would be I'd have written a series of UNDER THE HOUSE earlier.
The plumber arrived yesterday morning which was pretty good for a Sunday in the middle of the Christmas period. He fixed the problem leak by cutting out a couple of sections and installing new piping. The old piping is Polybutylene which was in use in the seventies and eighties. Nowadays it is banned for new installations.
As the plumber was finishing up, the water pressure blew out another old section of pipe. This is even further under the hose at an even narrower point. To reach it requires laying on your back with your face close to the floorboards like in this self pic I took last year.
Unfortunately the plumber didn't have the required replacement materials in his van and the supply shops were closed yesterday and today. He will pick up the necessary bits and pieces tomorrow and finish the job. I'm going to book him in to replace all of the Polybutylene. I don't want to go through this again.
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"I don't want to go through this again." Neither do your readers.
Though that picture of you up to your armpits in shit has proven very useful over on Richard's Bass Bag.*
* the original bass bagging site
I love you Peter.
Do you really though Robert. What is the end result of your love? What would you give up to fulfill it on a serious level? Who would finish up in a better eternity, you or the one you professed love to? I hope you're not just scoring browny points with the god that you fear.
Thanks for that but I'm really not a god.
No, you're certainly not. God could have fixed those leaks easily AND the three things that can go wrong with a bottle of white wine!
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