OMG... I Had THE Worse Start To The Day Today!
 

I woke up this morning to this HUGE BANG followed by another a few seconds later! :eek:

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. :rolleyes: 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? :eek:

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! :mad: I couldn't do it today because everything is still drying out. :rolleyes:

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.

OMG....you really DID have an AWFUL day! What the heck? I would be at the end of my last raw nerve. I hope things get better. If not, I would totally start breaking plates or something. :p

I would break some if I didn't have to pick them up again. :rolleyes: I'll just go to bed instead and hope tomorrow is a better day. :cool:

I am so sorry for you.......but you came through like a trooper and you and the girls were dry......We women are so tough, you did awesome and listened to your instincts and you don't have to RE-DO a kitchen. Good job.

wow sounds very rough hope you have a much better day tommorow.

:eek::( Well I hope since you said you had a Landlady that means you rent and don't have to pay for all this... sounds costly! What a pain!!! I hope all goes back to normal for you soon. :)

Yeah she said get done whatever needs doing, I'll call when I get home tonight and sort out paying. She's actually a great landlady, she's so laidback that if she was anymore so she'd fall over. :rolleyes:

He said he was going to invoice her for £150, ($300) and he was only here for maybe 2hrs. :eek:

That is a TERRIBLE start to the day! I hope tomorrow is better and that you will be able to get your kitchen decorated.

Gee what a rough way to start the day. Sorry this all happened. Thank goodness you didn't decorate any earlier!!! :eek:

OMG that's AWFUL! I feel SO bad for you! I saw your status on FB this morning and thought "Well that can't be a good thing." UGH what a disaster!

At least it doesn't sound like there was any damage to any of your personal things. Just damage to the carpet and stuff. We had a house in the area here blow up because their water heater or something was broken and it blew up, the house wasn't left standing.

Holy Moly!!! That sucks! Im glad the landlady is nice. The one I had before I bought this house would be like... oh well, what do you want me to do:eek:

I would of been pretty P.O'd if I'd painted the day before! :(

Today was better. :)

Yeah I was desperately hoping one of my friends would see it who is actually a plumber and out of work at the minute. He did see it but not till after I had it sorted out. :rolleyes:

Thankfully nothing of mine was damnaged that either can't be cheaply replaced or ran through the wash. I've had the carpet cleaner on the carpet and sucked up alot of the water but it's still pretty wet. :(

That's awful their house blew up... I feel even luckier now!

Hehehe, no, she's really nice. She's been good with a lot of things.

Wow that was scary!! Glad it all worked out ok and noone was hurt