The Letter F....

....is for "Oh flippin' heck" or in the case of our last weekend "FLOOD".

What started off as a simple job of sorting out a squeeky board upstairs has ended in a completely wrecked kitchen and nothing but a lot of hassle from the insurance company and tradesmen! :(

On Thursday night Julie noticed a small damp patch appearing on the kitchen ceiling. On closer examination we also found a small lake of dark water appearing in the lighting. Not good!!

After a quick phone to the "emergency" home insurance number we had a plumber booked for Friday afternoon. Easy peasy we thought until he didn't turn up. In fact after a phone call at 16:30 we found out he'd not be here till after 18:00. The leaking had stopped at that time so we changed it to Saturday lunchtime.

Saturday morning and we walked into the kitchen to find this lot. NIGHTMARE scenerio and a very hacked off James. The plumber had a lot of explaining to do.







In fact by this time it was so bad that Kory decided to get out the way ASAP and found somewhere high to hide. Smart kid! :)






The plumber finally turned up at 15:30 and got started on fixing the leak which had by this time spread across the ceiling, down the insides of the walls and across the living room carpet. It took 4 hours to fix the leak which had, shock-horror, been caused by me hitting a nail through a pipe.


So it took two days to get the plumbing fixed, another two to get the eletricity back on and just today we had someone round to inspect it all. In the process he's rip all our flooring up and taken it away :(.

So the bad news is I'm writing this while sitting on our wrecked living room carpet listening to the constant humming of a noisy dehumidifier. The good news is we're getting a new ceiling, lighting, kitchen and living room floor in a few weeks time.

Thank god for home insurance but it's a pain in the neck that their "emergency" service takes three days to actually get someone out to sort these things out.

Bye for now
James