Apart from dripping into buckets I have strategically placed now in four locations under the plumbing. Apart from that. Water can travel a long way between the leak and the paddling pool on the cellar floor. And water conducts electricity!
Shark tuts at me and tells me that pure water does not do this; impurities conduct electricity, and that is why I should never plunge exposed wires into dirty washing up water.
But that would explain my ring main problem, would it not? If the rat chewed the cable, as rats are wont to do, then the plumbing dripped and travelled and the fuse blew on my ring main.
I am minded to take an evening course in electrical doodahs. I think I quite have the aptitude for this.
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I'm with you. Our fusebox kept tripping and we couldn't figure out why, until I realised that it was dripping every time it rained, and that MrB had been doing some amateur electricals on the outside light wires...
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Electricity is much easier than plumbing. Electrons are generally much better behaved and don't drip out all over the place if something is a bit loose, unlike with water.
Having said that, plumbing isn't too hard, the trick is to have a reel of PTFE tape to wrap on joints before tightening them up.
oh wow. PTFE tape. I am made up with that. next time in b&q, i'm gonna sound like a pro. xx
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