It is clear as daylight that “No person shall perform the trade of plumbing … unless he is a trained plumber or works under the adequate control of a trained plumber or approved competent person.” You’ll find the relevant clauses in Part A, Administration, A18 CONTROL OF PLUMBERS AND PLUMBING WORK. Plumbers and the Regulationsįirst of all, the National Building Regulations are VERY specific when it comes to plumbers and plumbing work. Since the inside floor of the cupboard just inside the scullery was already rotten to the core when we moved into the house – clearly due to flooding and probably due to burst pipes – he went to investigate the outside wall where he spotted water pouring from who-knows-where!Īll we could do to stop the leaking water was to switch off the water supply to the house and hope that the owner’s agent would act immediately… which she did, though it only resulted in a temporary solution. My 21-year-old computer genius son was called in to help find the source. It was wet on the floor where the fridge had been, and the water seemed to be coming from the corner. The water that was seeping out the other end had reached its final destination. “Actually no! It’s neither the fridge nor the toilet!” Like I said, water is devious.īy this time I had done a simple experiment using a towel and a sponge mop, and had ascertained that the flow was definitely from the direction of said fridge. Hearing chatter of a possible burst toilet or faulty water pipe a couple of days later, she pronounced: “Look, the toilet is leaking.” “Your fridge is leaking badly!” she said on Day One… “It’s your fridge actually,” I pointed out. Of course the know-all matriarch knew exactly what was going on! The fact that water was seeping out at both ends of the kitchen units seemed to confirm our suspicions. Knowing that the house – or at least part of the house extension – was constructed without building plans, we figured it was quite possible that the water was coming from the cloakroom (so to speak).
The entire bank of units is nearly 3 m long, and runs from steps that lead down from a guest loo that is located behind the kitchen, alongside the scullery. But then on second thoughts, it looked as if it was coming from under a kitchen unit installed opposite the fridge. In this case it seemed to be flowing from the fridge. That is why leaks can be such a huge problem.
The problem is that it is often impossible to assess the origin of the flow. Water has a devious nature, even when homes have been built according to building regulation requirements. When the door disintegrates just a little more, we’ll be back in the fridge market yet again. The replacement we bought when this happened some years ago is falling to pieces – literally, chip by chip. We have one almost identical, but it’s changed its function to a full-on freezer. Another appliance was clearly about to give up the ghost! The bad news was that it’s the “best” of our three fridges, having been transferred from my mother-in-law’s Howick house only a year ago. Tensions were high as water dribbled out from under the fridge. It was a case of water, water everywhere and not a drop to drink recently, when a burst pipe began to flood our rented home. Burst Pipe Plumbing Problems can Result in Water Water Everywhere
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