It has to get worse before it gets better. One mistake we made was not ensuring the stop taps for the water were easily accessible so it's a real pain if we need to switch off the water for any reason.
Our mains stop tap is so stiff (our plumber told us that's quite common) that it would be easier to turn the water off from outside should we have to.
I think ours is easy to get at hubby has to do a bit of plumbing as there is a leak which he found last night, at the moment he has put our old fridge freezer in the hall, as its a plumbed one he has rigged it up so we can use water from the fridge if that makes sense, that's being collected on Thursday the new one and cooker comes tomorrow we won't have a sink until Thursday the nightmare continues
Ours is a shared supply to four houses so it would turn everyone off. Severn Trent were supposed to be separating the supply but decided they couldn't do it for 'technical' reasons.
I hope it won't be that long you should see our dinning room and living room there full of flat pack Ikea boxes and work tops the sink and all the other appliances.
That reminds me of when our kitchen was done. We had to sit round the dining table because all the boxes were stacked in front of our sofas.😱
It did look nice when it was finished though.
Yes, our cat Betty inspects every new bit of furniture plus all the packaging. We call it the CatScan. Here she is inspecting the boxes our flat pack chicken coop arrived in after we discovered we were missing a handle.
When we had the kitchen renovated, we had a stop tap put on just after the main stop tap so that we could switch the water off rather than break a wrist trying to turn off the original stop tap. Safest for if we are away for more than a couple of days.
