A pipe in our house just burst! Remembering my training, I ran downstairs and turned off the main stop cock under the sink. We were lucky that it was caught so quickly or it could have done a lot of damage. The linoleum has been pulled up and the area is being dried (it didn't spread very far - water was off in less than two minutes; remember your monthly burst pipe drills!).
My question is, would this hose be an easy DIY fix? The damaged hose is the middle one in the picture, covered in some kind of braided armour. It's the hot-water. It had recently supplied hot water to the bath and burst maybe 20-30 minutes later (it could have been trickling sooner than that but it made a lot of noise when it burst). In the second picture you can see that the reinforcement appears to have rusted and then maybe just burst open under the pressure? Is that a thing that happens? Otherwise I can only think of a rat being the cause. Or maybe it was damaged around the time it was installed?
The top part of the damaged hose looks like it screws on. I can do that! But what about the bottom part? How does that attach to the copper pipe?
It's troubling to think of the amount of damage this could have caused if it wasn't caught so quickly. After confirming that the leak was in-fact the previously discussed hose I turned off the water inlet on the boiler and turned the water to the house back on.
I just read that flexible braided water hoses corrode and burst quite a bit! Apparently they should be checked every two years. Ours was in service 13-14 years before failing.
My question is, would this hose be an easy DIY fix? The damaged hose is the middle one in the picture, covered in some kind of braided armour. It's the hot-water. It had recently supplied hot water to the bath and burst maybe 20-30 minutes later (it could have been trickling sooner than that but it made a lot of noise when it burst). In the second picture you can see that the reinforcement appears to have rusted and then maybe just burst open under the pressure? Is that a thing that happens? Otherwise I can only think of a rat being the cause. Or maybe it was damaged around the time it was installed?
The top part of the damaged hose looks like it screws on. I can do that! But what about the bottom part? How does that attach to the copper pipe?
It's troubling to think of the amount of damage this could have caused if it wasn't caught so quickly. After confirming that the leak was in-fact the previously discussed hose I turned off the water inlet on the boiler and turned the water to the house back on.
I just read that flexible braided water hoses corrode and burst quite a bit! Apparently they should be checked every two years. Ours was in service 13-14 years before failing.