What have you been doing today?

Mottie said:
Troubleshooting - and it’s not even 7.00am!
For the last couple of mornings, when I’ve given the toilet its first flush of the day, I’ve heard a vibrating noise going through the house for a minute or two. I put it down to a dodgy fill valve making a noise just as the cistern is coming to full. This morning it just kept going and going, really loud. Even turning other taps on and flushing the toilet made no difference. I went into the street to turn it off at the meter and the cause of the noise was immediately obvious - the noise was coming from the water meter. I turned it off, then back on, noise gone. I then made a cuppa and as I turned the tap off, I could hear a slight buzzing that wasn’t going away. Again, I went outside, this time with my phone to record it. This was nothing compared to the earlier noise. The meter is not showing any useage so it’s not a leak between the meter and my house.

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Been on to Essex & Suffolk water and they are sending an engineer out. They seem to think it might indicate a leak before the meter?
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Good investigation
 
We had the very same noise from our water meter, turned out to be a leak further up the road, the buzzing comes from water pressure flucuating as it escapes the pipe and draws air in.
 
Highway Man said:
We had the very same noise from our water meter, turned out to be a leak further up the road, the buzzing comes from water pressure flucuating as it escapes the pipe and draws air in.
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Never thought of it. I wonder if its deliberate to be an alert ⚠️ .
 
Highway Man said:
We had the very same noise from our water meter, turned out to be a leak further up the road, the buzzing comes from water pressure flucuating as it escapes the pipe and draws air in.
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I hope it’s not a leak elsewhere. In the last fortnight both our son in Chelmsford and our daughter in North London have been without water for several days due to mains bursting/leaking. Been using bottled water.
 
Mottie said:
I hope it’s not a leak elsewhere. In the last fortnight both our son in Chelmsford and our daughter in North London have been without water for several days due to mains bursting/leaking.m
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Funny you say that, we have road works all over due to split water mains.
 
Mottie said:
I hope it’s not a leak elsewhere. In the last fortnight both our son in Chelmsford and our daughter in North London have been without water for several days due to mains bursting/leaking. Been using bottled water.
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Im afraid to say that it just runs in some families.
 
Elsa TLC said:
Your investigation skills are wasted on car engines.
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I’ve noticed the cinder paths on my regular morning walks having great fissures opening up in them, some 30 metres or more long. You could get your hand in them. I’ve never seen that in 15 years of walking them. The ground is definitely shrinking.
 
Mottie said:
I’ve noticed the cinder paths on my regular morning walks having great fissures opening up in them, some 30 metres or more long. You could get your hand in them. I’ve never seen that in 15 years of walking them. The ground is definitely shrinking.
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The football pitches are really bad . Some are totally unusable. Some leagues are not starting until the end of September
 
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