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[tamaranth]

4:45: identify source of strange hissing noise in kitchen (by opening undersink cupboard and observing WATER)
4:50: text Nearest Available Competent Male* for advice
4:53: receive sensible and constructive advice
4:55: apply hot towels
5:00: nonchalantly enquire of bugshaw where I might find the stopcock should I ever have the urge to gaze upon it
5:05: locate stopcock
5:10: feebly attempt to turn water off
5:15: actually turn water off, 'cause am Tuff
5:20: identify source of leak, google 'temporary fix leaking pipes duct tape'
5:21: note that leak is in pipe to outside tap.
5:22: which can be isolated / turned off
5:23: stop leak
5:25: mopping up
5:27: reassure bugshaw that house is hardly under water at all
5:28: thank Nearest Available Competent Male for moral support
5:30: FLOMP.

*groliffe, as he is at beginning of alphabet in my phone, and could feasibly rescue me from flood on his way home

Comments

[eleyan.livejournal.com]

That's very impressive. I am now shamed into thinking I ought to find out where our stopcock is and how to turn it off just in case.

[tamaranth.livejournal.com]

it is remarkably useful information! (Also worth checking that you, personally, can turn it off. There was a moment of doubt ...)

[ivory-goddess.livejournal.com]

Well done!

have no idea where stopcock is.

[tamaranth.livejournal.com]

thank god it's not just me who doesn't know stopcock location! (In Redhill I had an excellent excuse, there wasn't one -- well, there was one for both flats, which was under the front path somewhere)

[ivory-goddess.livejournal.com]

Did think it was behind the dishwasher, but discovered the other year that that's just an isolation valve for the feed to the dishwasher...

...is glad we don't have an outside tap...

[http://users.livejournal.com/la_marquise_de_/]

Glad to hear it's temporarily fixed, at least.

[tamaranth.livejournal.com]

should be fine til spring! Yay for outside-tap pipes with an 'off' option.

[pennski.livejournal.com]

Hurrah! Well done you.

Knows where stopcock is. Believes she can turn it off but hasn't checked recently.

[bugshaw.livejournal.com]

Wow, thanks for noticing and sorting and mopping! Will investigate in a couple of days...

[tamaranth.livejournal.com]

nothing to investigate, outside-tap pipe turned off: when it is turned on again there will be a spray of water. If you want to call out a plumber over Christmas, don't let me stop you! But outside-tap pipe should probably be turned off anyway, and we can get it fixed any time.

[ladymoonray.livejournal.com]

Well done!

[marypcb.livejournal.com]

FYI: a duct tape pipe that is thoroughly duct taped to the pont that no water drips from it (and then more layers) can last for *years*. I repaired a dripping pipe in the garden in Bath with a roll of duct tape and it lasted maybe 6 years and would ahve lasted longer but we demolished the shed it went to.