I woke up this morning to this HUGE BANG followed by another a few seconds later!
A pipe from the cold water tank had split and was leaking water out down through the roof and onto the boiler in the kitchen and a couple of plug sockets! The plug sockets exploded along with the fuse for the boiler, there's black marks from 3/4 up the wall to the ceiling. I tried to turn the water off but I couldn't find the darn stop tap ANYWHERE - seriously, no where!
I phoned my landlady and she was in just getting on a plane in Teneriff to come home so said just get someone out to fix it and I'll pay them tonight. I had no electric because the main fuse had blown and tripped everything, I couldn't turn the water off, I had no landline to spend ages calling around for someone to come out on and even if I had I have no phonebook.
So I had to go up to my Mums.
Finally, after 2hrs of ringing around and an hour waiting I got some bloke to come out with his dad and they found the stop tap which had the actual tap broken off so I wouldn't of noticed it even if I had of looked in that cupboard.
I now have no leak, a boiler that's been dried out and working and some new fuses, a very wet carpet and dirty scorche marks up the wall! Fun eh?
To top it off I was actually going to decorate my kitchen yesterday but decided to do it today instead... imagine if I had of done!
I couldn't do it today because everything is still drying out.
Tomorrow it should be all dry again and I can paint... I've already started spraying the patterned tiles on the otherside of the room tonight while Amelia is in bed.