Mundane facts about your day: Part Deux.

staffordjas

Well-Known Forumite
As the National Grid bloke said on the local forum , when we thanked them , these things happen. But important thing is that everyone got to go home to their families unhurt this time.
Could have ended so differently ( only just hit me really how bad it could have ended!) :o
I joked about ending up on the news , but someone could have gone up with a bang!

Anyway, we have water, heating, power..

I THINK ITS CIDER TIME! Cheers everyone :pint::pint::pint::pint:
Thanks for keeping me more sane throughout today.😁
 

Glam

Mad Cat Woman
As the National Grid bloke said on the local forum , when we thanked them , these things happen. But important thing is that everyone got to go home to their families unhurt this time.
Could have ended so differently ( only just hit me really how bad it could have ended!) :o
I joked about ending up on the news , but someone could have gone up with a bang!

Anyway, we have water, heating, power..

I THINK ITS CIDER TIME! Cheers everyone :pint::pint::pint::pint:
Thanks for keeping me more sane throughout today.
@staffordjas If you ever decide to move back to Stafford. Could you give us all at least 2 years notice before you put your home up for sale?
Gives us all chance to scatter to the far corners of the UK!!! xxx
 

littleme

250,000th poster!
As the National Grid bloke said on the local forum , when we thanked them , these things happen. But important thing is that everyone got to go home to their families unhurt this time.
Could have ended so differently ( only just hit me really how bad it could have ended!) :o
I joked about ending up on the news , but someone could have gone up with a bang!

Anyway, we have water, heating, power..

I THINK ITS CIDER TIME! Cheers everyone :pint::pint::pint::pint:
Thanks for keeping me more sane throughout today.😁
Cider? You need a bloomin whisky or gin!
 

staffordjas

Well-Known Forumite
Son found us a recommended plumbers number, he's coming tomorrow late afternoon but told us to turn stop tap off under sink whilst in bed and when going out til then. It's splashing dangerously over the cistern top as well as into the pan.

Luckily son came around whilst we were on the phone as in my panic I couldn't work my phone to send him photos of cistern and my address. Son took over as I was a blabbering mess!
 

staffordjas

Well-Known Forumite
Probably dislodged scale from today's repairs stopping the valve from shutting - at a guess.
Someone suggested debris preventing valve shutting on the local forum when I asked for recommendations for good plumber likely to come out quickish.

Could the system have bits of dirt from todays outside floating around in it?

Pressure was really high when he told me to turn kitchen tap back on. I'd gone out of kitchen when it started coming through and pressure so high the water was hitting the sink and bouncing back across to back wall.
 
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staffordjas

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Got a question ......
Is it safe to run my central heating whilst the internal stop tap is turned off ....



Edit....plumber just been and luckily I'd left it off and just used the gas fire instead as he said could damage it with stop tap off.
 
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staffordjas

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Plumber has been and had to cut the panel out to get to the isolator valve (so wasn't just us being thick not being able to see it , it was hidden and his apprentice couldn't even get to it so had to get the boss man out ) . Not got time to do the job today so coming back monday night with a new part to fix it...

Might make the bathrooms prettier than the olden days , but not very practical when things need fixing. Rather have this all weekend than water pouring through the kitchen ceiling though.....
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Not told this new plumber of StaffordJas's reputation yet ;). (The last one didn't answer his phone last night, I wonder why 😂 )
 
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Gramaisc

Forum O. G.
Today's task was a hospital run, 50 miles each way, but usually a painlessly straightforward operation, compared to similar tasks around Stafford. The recent weather gave us some sense of concern, though, but it seemed likely that we would succeed. The first part of the task is to pick up my charge about six miles away, in the absolute back of beyond. The roads on the way there were passable with care and I arrived at the allotted rendezvous bang on time. But, I could only see his stick when I got there, leaning on the hedge on its own. This gave me cause for two main possibilities, he was subjected to an alien abduction or, being a slave to a high micturition frequency, he was resetting the timer to zero at the latest possible point in time. The latter turned out to be true and he emerged through a gateway - we set out on the riskiest part of the journey, the next few miles are up, down and around some very hilly ground, but we achieved that uneventfully and moved onto steadily better roads from then on.

We arrived at the very pleasant hospital and parted our ways. I knew I had a couple of hours before he would escape, so I set out to explore the town and the canal.

I went a good way out of town along the canal to this impressive lock arrangement - a ten-foot drop and a rather imposing lock-house.

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I crossed over via the gates and returned.

The grass was very green, but mostly of one shade.

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Having set out in mid-winter, the day had rapidly improved and the sunshine made it feel way above the 6C that it was. The journey home could have been in May. We stopped halfway back, as is our habit, and had a huge meal, which almost finished me. Then we got a call to go and jump-start a car that was almost en-route.

From being a day which had looked like it could end in an early failure, it turned into a very successful outcome.
 

rudie111

Well-Known Forumite
Plumber has been and had to cut the panel out to get to the isolator valve (so wasn't just us being thick not being able to see it , it was hidden and his apprentice couldn't even get to it so had to get the boss man out ) . Not got time to do the job today so coming back monday night with a new part to fix it...

Might make the bathrooms prettier than the olden days , but not very practical when things need fixing. Rather have this all weekend than water pouring through the kitchen ceiling though.....
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Not told this new plumber of StaffordJas's reputation yet ;). (The last one didn't answer his phone last night, I wonder why 😂 )
It’s only fair that you let him know so he can take on extra staff
 
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