“Where’s this water come from?!” asks hubby.
…which is never a good thing to hear, especially not when you’re just about to sit down together to watch a DVD for ‘date night’!
Given our issues with our boiler (and the leak that came through the kitchen ceiling), we both automatically looked at the ceiling and were relieved at least that no water was coming down…!
An hour or so later and we had dismantled the washing machine waste pipe, part of the kitchen sink plumbing and emptied the water pipe into a mop bucket (several times!).
Not the most relaxing night but it could have been much, much worse. We were immensely proud of ourselves, given that we don’t have any plumbing skills. Between us, we remedied the problem with minimal stress.
From trying to ‘keep calm and sort the washing machine’ which was very ‘trying’, to persisting and keeping on ‘trying’ to eliminate the source of the problem, it’s easy to see why my word of the week with The Reading Residence is indeed ‘trying’!
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Good for you guys, trying, certainly. However, you managed it so much better than I would have.
Well, we were both shattered but said the sooner we sort it, the sooner we can sit down… with jaffa cakes! 😉
Go you guys! Plumbing is my least fave in school before and in household now. It is so complicated! And you tackled it well! #wotw
Ha ha, there was a fair of scratching our heads and a process of elimination in the end!
Oh that sounds rubbish! Poor you, but well done for fixing it x
It wasn’t the best night… thank goodness for saucepans that fit under u-bends and a sense of humour!
Oh no, I hate it when things like this happen. And how typical that you had lovely plans, too. But well done for sorting it all and remaining calm 🙂 Thanks for sharing with #WotW
Indeed, “Keep Calm and think of the Jaffa Cakes waiting!” was an incentive!! I failed to mention in the blogpost…!
That is very trying, but well done for sorting it all out yourselves 🙂 #WotW
It’s so nice to be able to do washing without that feeling of dread and having the mop bucket at the ready!
I wish you a better week!
Thanks… So do I!…