Watery Tart
A few years ago in a nice rented flat (seriously it was actually quite posh, big place on Leith Links in Edinburgh) we developed a leak in the bathroom.

Principally this was caused by some slip shod plumber using plastic not copper pipe resulting in an almighty amount of water being deposited in the kitchen downstairs (two floor flat)

The pipe must have broken during the night and being in a cupboard no one noticed until we got up and found the place swimming.

No one knew where the stop cock was either (off tap for you pervs who enjoyed the gratuitous use of the word 'cock' there) so i ended up searching the kitchen in just the shorts i'd been sleeping in.

Bear in mind the floor is soaked, it is about a centimeter deep with water so not just damp, when i notice the central heating thermostat is buzzing.

Both lights for the hot water and heating are on and in a complete brain wave genius here decides turning it off would be good, you know so it doesn't get damaged.

Ireached out and it went with a right crack slamming my arm right back behind me. I didn't fall but had a numb arm for a week. That said, could have been a lot worse, i'd basically stood barefoot in a puddle and touched a metal faced box that was being short circuited.

Clever.

5t.
(fivetide, Mon 16 Feb 2009, 17:25, Reply)