I can never have a normal evening, after working at least 10 hours a day for 3 weeks I had a 4pm finish today which I never ever have and just when I was sat having my early tea the phone went, recognized the number..let the stress commence..
Two and a half weeks ago I re did a leaking old shower enclosure with a cracked tray, re plumbed everything in copper and fixed a 760 x 760 stone tray right down on the floor and tiled 3 walls round with the existing shower door (don't ask), existing electric shower went back in, everything tested fully.
Get the call tonight shes just got home after a week away to find water pouring out of the ceiling into the lounge from right under the shower, I said right turn the water off and I'm on my way, drove 2 miles there through all the rush our traffic thinking oh god this is the big insurance claim I've been dreading for 10 years. Got there and saw the mess downstairs and wanted to cry, went into bathroom and took the cover off the Mira Zest, bone dry so I cut a hole in the floor (old cork tiles over floorboards), got my torch and camera under the tray and saw wetness but couldn't pinpoint so I went round to the foot of the toilet and cut another section of floor out and it was worse there but the copper pipe going up to the shower was dry, I turned the water on again to see if I could see or hear anything but nothing so I cut further towards the toilet into the next joist space and that was where most of the water was..I thought to myself is this even the shower leaking and the over flow from the cistern went straight down under the floorboards and into an elbow, I lifted the cistern lid and the Torbeck was passing and water was brimming the overflow, the elbow was leaking under the floor after all that! I was about to start ripping my new tiles off!
Major panic to total relief
Two and a half weeks ago I re did a leaking old shower enclosure with a cracked tray, re plumbed everything in copper and fixed a 760 x 760 stone tray right down on the floor and tiled 3 walls round with the existing shower door (don't ask), existing electric shower went back in, everything tested fully.
Get the call tonight shes just got home after a week away to find water pouring out of the ceiling into the lounge from right under the shower, I said right turn the water off and I'm on my way, drove 2 miles there through all the rush our traffic thinking oh god this is the big insurance claim I've been dreading for 10 years. Got there and saw the mess downstairs and wanted to cry, went into bathroom and took the cover off the Mira Zest, bone dry so I cut a hole in the floor (old cork tiles over floorboards), got my torch and camera under the tray and saw wetness but couldn't pinpoint so I went round to the foot of the toilet and cut another section of floor out and it was worse there but the copper pipe going up to the shower was dry, I turned the water on again to see if I could see or hear anything but nothing so I cut further towards the toilet into the next joist space and that was where most of the water was..I thought to myself is this even the shower leaking and the over flow from the cistern went straight down under the floorboards and into an elbow, I lifted the cistern lid and the Torbeck was passing and water was brimming the overflow, the elbow was leaking under the floor after all that! I was about to start ripping my new tiles off!
Major panic to total relief
