Drinking water comes from the mains not the tank due to safety reasonCouldn't you at least fill a kettle?
This is one of the massive disadvantages of not having a huge tank in the loft. As we found out in Froggyland when they stopped the watter.
Of course this is true, but personally I have drunk water out of the bathroom taps in all the places I have ever lived with no ill effects. I mast have been lucky! Still do it!
Despite the fact that it looks really clean inside and out, this will prolly be true as the oil can simply dry up.
Be able to blow down them then
I do wish we could spend a little time whisky tasting. There are so many malts that taste so cool!Omg that’s sacrilege, alas for me I like southern comfort and coke
Yeh I know I’ll get my coat
The best drink is what you like and how you drink it.Omg that’s sacrilege, alas for me I like southern comfort and coke
Yeh I know I’ll get my coat
And the best thing is trying them all to find what you like!
Once towed a 2.2 ton AA van on a heavy trailer 250 miles back from Scotland with a V8 110, OK at 50 but any more and it was unsafeHave you tried towing 3.5t with a landy its not fun
Advantages of having a 4 x 4 is when u can’t find a parking space just drag them out the way, plus that’s what bumpers are for to make a bigger parking space
..that it has been a really bad day.
I was “Encouraged” to attend the weekly “Thursday Shopping” because it is the BH W/E and it would be rammed full and she also wanted some gardening stuff from another shop.
We got home in the rain and the Waterboard were still there and the hole was deeper. They knocked on the door to advise that “my” outlet from the main was leaking and they would need to cut off the street supply to renew it.
They renewed it but when they reconnected there was no rising-main pressure at all. After some discussion they declared that they would replace the street stop-cock on my property and if that didn’t fix it they would replace the internal stop-cock in my house.
Basically their works had broken my supply. They have just knocked after replacing the garden stop-cock and I have re-tested and it all seemed fine. Phew!
However, after the water board folks had finally filled in the hole in our front garden and departed at about 3:15 Reta was out in the hallway and could hear a tapping noise.
She went upstairs to find water dripping through the landing ceiling light and out of the loft-hatch onto the floor.
Lots of loud shrieks of “Dan, Dan…come quick!” I turned off the cold rising main at the indoor stop-cock and told Reta to run the hot & cold taps in the bath room.
We put towels down to soak up the dripping water.
I think that the lack of any mains water and the demands on the water in the system had dropped it to a level it does not normally drop to and it managed to jam the ball-valve.
So, the ball valve in the cistern had failed and the lack of overflow piping (removed by the builder when doing the upstairs extension in 1997) meant that the overflow just dumped onto the attic floor.
Weirdly, I had a premonition about this earlier this week, spooky or what?
Then I spent the rest of the afternoon replacing the failed ball valve, sadly, the fibre washer on the pipe-joint to the new ball valve just disintegrated and so It was after 5 by then and I had to do a dash to Screwfix to get a pack of them.
Finally got it all leak-free and shutting off properly at 6:45 PM.
I will doubtless be up there over Easter fitting overflow pipework.
Bin having an upand a downer with Teachers' Pensions.
The beggars want to make me pay back overpaid pension.
Over the past nine years odd I have been overpaid for 4 days I din't work.
And of course it was their fault or the fault of the wimmins at Poole council who originally worked it out.
This has been going on for two months as TP couldn't organise a p*** up in a brewery and the Poole person refuses to answer emails, except with one that might well be encrypted as I can't open the attached files.
So there is a lot of victim blaming going on.
All great fun!
So today I dug out all my payslips going back to 1981. Solved 2 of the problems and the other 2 have been sorted out. Basically when some one (me) went part time the wimmins couldn't do sums. She now is HR, unsurprisingly!
But it was interesting to see what I earned back then. first pay slip showed £451 net pay or a month's work. Life was so much cheaper then!
But it has made me determined to claim my French pension from the year I did over there!
That'll be interesting as it may in fact give me some rights that I don't have at the mo, according to our Froggy friend who was so high up in the equivalent of Whitehall over there.
You poor sod!..that it has been a really bad day.
I was “Encouraged” to attend the weekly “Thursday Shopping” because it is the BH W/E and it would be rammed full and she also wanted some gardening stuff from another shop.
We got home in the rain and the Waterboard were still there and the hole was deeper. They knocked on the door to advise that “my” outlet from the main was leaking and they would need to cut off the street supply to renew it.
They renewed it but when they reconnected there was no rising-main pressure at all. After some discussion they declared that they would replace the street stop-cock on my property and if that didn’t fix it they would replace the internal stop-cock in my house.
Basically their works had broken my supply. They have just knocked after replacing the garden stop-cock and I have re-tested and it all seemed fine. Phew!
However, after the water board folks had finally filled in the hole in our front garden and departed at about 3:15 Reta was out in the hallway and could hear a tapping noise.
She went upstairs to find water dripping through the landing ceiling light and out of the loft-hatch onto the floor.
Lots of loud shrieks of “Dan, Dan…come quick!” I turned off the cold rising main at the indoor stop-cock and told Reta to run the hot & cold taps in the bath room.
We put towels down to soak up the dripping water.
I think that the lack of any mains water and the demands on the water in the system had dropped it to a level it does not normally drop to and it managed to jam the ball-valve.
So, the ball valve in the cistern had failed and the lack of overflow piping (removed by the builder when doing the upstairs extension in 1997) meant that the overflow just dumped onto the attic floor.
Weirdly, I had a premonition about this earlier this week, spooky or what?
Then I spent the rest of the afternoon replacing the failed ball valve, sadly, the fibre washer on the pipe-joint to the new ball valve just disintegrated and so It was after 5 by then and I had to do a dash to Screwfix to get a pack of them.
Finally got it all leak-free and shutting off properly at 6:45 PM.
I will doubtless be up there over Easter fitting overflow pipework.
LOL!!!
I have an ex-colleague who kept every payslip from when he started work until he retired.
