03-26-2010, 12:00 AM
OK, I want to tell you what happened to me late last night. I'm afraid it's a bit of a sad story but nothing irremediable.
It was about 3 a.m. when I went into the kitchen for a drink and just before hopping into bed. I'd been entertaining my assistants and we'd had a fabulous meal together with lots of laughs etc...
I noticed my socks were wet from something on the floor. I wondered why and as I was in the semi darkness reckoned that it must have been some water I'd spilt on the floor from my glass of water... Then I was hit in the face by a big drop of cold water... What the F....???
I looked up, only to find that there was a nasty wet crack in the ceiling and water falling from the crack.
I went upstairs to ring my neighbour's bell. No answer!
I came back down, and decided that if something was leaking in his kitchen he'd better know it, as it was destroying my ceiling. I rang his phone. This time he answered.
He went into his kitchen to check and saw nothing... "OK," I said, "then it's the tubing for the central heating, what a bore!!!" A bit later, I phoned him back and said I thought it must be the central heating in his flooring / my ceiling, and that we couldn't do anything about it so we'd better sleep on it; He agreed to go out on the landing and to turn his water supply off however. The leaking stopped last night.
This evening, the neighbour returns from work and comes to see what has happened. He sees the damage and is sorry. We discuss this further and agree that it won't be a picnic to have all the tiling removed in his kitchen to solve the plumbery problem for the central heating. Then he goes upstairs, turns his water supply back on and the trickling starts to spray me again from above... It's like having a bloody shower!!!!!! :mad:
As it turns out, he returned a few minutes later, saying he'd found where the problem was. He hadn't noticed that for a few days his tap had been leaking from changing a bolt or something and it's been leaking since then. He'll have to have it seen to, but at least it's not the heating piping... Phew!!! but my ceiling's a wreck... Glad we both have good insurances.
It was about 3 a.m. when I went into the kitchen for a drink and just before hopping into bed. I'd been entertaining my assistants and we'd had a fabulous meal together with lots of laughs etc...
I noticed my socks were wet from something on the floor. I wondered why and as I was in the semi darkness reckoned that it must have been some water I'd spilt on the floor from my glass of water... Then I was hit in the face by a big drop of cold water... What the F....???
I looked up, only to find that there was a nasty wet crack in the ceiling and water falling from the crack.
I went upstairs to ring my neighbour's bell. No answer!
I came back down, and decided that if something was leaking in his kitchen he'd better know it, as it was destroying my ceiling. I rang his phone. This time he answered.
He went into his kitchen to check and saw nothing... "OK," I said, "then it's the tubing for the central heating, what a bore!!!" A bit later, I phoned him back and said I thought it must be the central heating in his flooring / my ceiling, and that we couldn't do anything about it so we'd better sleep on it; He agreed to go out on the landing and to turn his water supply off however. The leaking stopped last night.
This evening, the neighbour returns from work and comes to see what has happened. He sees the damage and is sorry. We discuss this further and agree that it won't be a picnic to have all the tiling removed in his kitchen to solve the plumbery problem for the central heating. Then he goes upstairs, turns his water supply back on and the trickling starts to spray me again from above... It's like having a bloody shower!!!!!! :mad:
As it turns out, he returned a few minutes later, saying he'd found where the problem was. He hadn't noticed that for a few days his tap had been leaking from changing a bolt or something and it's been leaking since then. He'll have to have it seen to, but at least it's not the heating piping... Phew!!! but my ceiling's a wreck... Glad we both have good insurances.
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