Plumbing, Were-rabbit.
Oct. 15th, 2005 09:45 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
armbFinally got around to doing something about the leak near the front hot water cylinder. It did provide an excuse to buy a blowtorch. (There's a bit I need to reuse and can't afford to cut anything off from that has a soldered joint on it.) And either the pipe is oversize or the boss is undersize - I suspect the latter.
It's tricky to mend soldered joints in place because even a small amount of water will turn to steam and blow your solder out of the way. I mention this because at least one of the supposedly professional plumbers who work on the system in the past didn't know that.
However a professional probably wouldn't have stopped part way through to go and see Wallace and Gromit.
But
i) we'd already bought the tickets
ii) it was Wallace and Gromit.
Luckily someone had the foresight to insist on isolating valves. Oh yes, that was me. And they only leaked a little bit while we were out, and it was Wallace and Gromit.
It's tricky to mend soldered joints in place because even a small amount of water will turn to steam and blow your solder out of the way. I mention this because at least one of the supposedly professional plumbers who work on the system in the past didn't know that.
However a professional probably wouldn't have stopped part way through to go and see Wallace and Gromit.
But
i) we'd already bought the tickets
ii) it was Wallace and Gromit.
Luckily someone had the foresight to insist on isolating valves. Oh yes, that was me. And they only leaked a little bit while we were out, and it was Wallace and Gromit.
Plumbing issues.
Date: 2008-09-05 10:43 am (UTC)