The plumber said a week was the worst case, he would try
to get it quicker.

Ho hum.
(username failed moderation, Thu 26 Jun 2014, 9:39, 1 reply)

The bottom of my header tank split a couple months ago.
(oo-err).

Leaked all through the bedroom ceiling, bugger. I took the opportunity to replace some more of the system as well, because fuck it, why not?

Fucking plumber wired the hot water in backwards so when the switch was off, hot water was on, and left a valve slightly open. We didn't notice the valve was open because everything was running hot.

At 5 AM when the timer for the hot water turned it "on", it switched off. When it started to cool the valve started pissing water everywhere and fucked the ceiling and wall downstairs.

tl;dr: something about plumbers being bastards.
( gone, Thu 26 Jun 2014, 13:19, closed)

Gotta say, I'm quite happy to
build walls, do carpentry and wiring, but plumbing I won't go anywhere near.

Though I'm hesitant to turn this into an advert, British Gas homecare is the way to go. For me, anyway.
(username failed moderation, Fri 27 Jun 2014, 9:09, closed)

I'm with you...
Although over the many years I have had the cover BG are probably up on the deal, it has come in handy in some dire emergency situations - like waking up on New Years Day, AD2000 (yes, the New Minnellium) to a stone cold inoperative boiler, or a leak in an impossibly contrived position behind the bath when Lady Blink was nine months and one week pregnant.

The first would have cost us an impossible amount of money on that day, and in both cases I wouldn't have wanted to take pot luck picking atrader from the Yellow Pages.
(Colonel Blink is now officially a pretentious prick, Sun 29 Jun 2014, 21:08, closed)