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2 comments for today. One from IRC and one I saw on the back of a van while driving into work:-
Love alot, trust a few, but always paddle your own canoe!!
Somewhere in the world, it is always lunchtime
The first one is quite meaningful, the second - useful when you are feeling hungry :)
On Saturday evening, Shell and I went to collect one of her friends. When we pulled up outside, she beckoned us in and asked for help, as her upstairs bathroom was leaking into her kitchen! Essentially, the cold water feed into the cistern was split as it entered the cistern and was dripping water. They had already turned off the water at the stop-cock, but this hadnt stopped it.
When I checked under the sink, I noticed that the feed upstairs for the cistern and the kitchen were to the left of the stop-cock, so turning it off didnt affect them! Whoever installed that plumbing solution needs smacking with a piece of 2"x4".
Anyway, I came up with a solution. I asked them for a piece of tube and a coke bottle. I sliced the top off of a section of the bottle and connected to the vacuum extension tube. The water dripped into the bottle, ran down the pipe and into the toilet! A plumbing solution made in heaven. Or a "brilliant bodge" as others called it.
I think therefore I have found a second calling. Not plumbing, but "Heath Robinson" style solutioning...
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