Plumbing the depths
by Simon Handby in At home on 28.08.08
Well, bad plumbing has caught me up, but not in the way I expected. A couple of weeks ago I was unwise enough to tempt the home improvement gods by talking about some plumbing work before it had been successfully completed. The good news is, my plumber turned out to be excellent.
The bad news is that my original plumbing has turned out to be less so, and yesterday evening a central heating pipe under my kitchen floor sprang a leak. After a few attempts to get pressure back into my boiler, my downstairs neighbours started to get rained on, and my plumber had to put in an emergency visit.
At the moment, the leak is stopped and the floor is up while we wait for the ceiling below to dry out. As you can see, it doesn’t make for a spotless kitchen, but I’m hoping that there’s no permanent damage to the floor or my neighbour’s newly-redecorated room below it.
The hardest part is shelving the extravagant dinner parties I would clearly otherwise be having.
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