It's been a very exciting Sunday. Our new house is still unoccupied for reasons that pain me to explain, but we went there anyway to do some DIY here and there.
I walk past the outbuilding and hear a bad fizzing noise. I look at the wall on the outside - Flemish bond, single brick. It's damp. I open the door. Dear God. Water spraying everywhere, about half a foot deep in the corner (the floor is uneven so its not flowed out the door). The walls are soaking.
There's a sink in there, fed from mains water which then goes off into the kitchen that butts onto the outbuilding. This 15mm copper pipe has burst for around 1cm . Mains pressure water for God knows how long turning my shed into a wetroom. Looking at the damage / potential damage I am guessing that this happened recently, perhaps today when the sun came out.
Fortunately the damage is limited to wet walls and wet floors. There's no furniture in there and its all brick, stone and tile. The fix takes 10 minutes (I use a speedfit joint for now). My wife thinks I'm a God (although she did, afterwards, say something about Basil Fawlty)
The insulation on the pipework was the thinner 'budget' foam variety. Why-oh-why would people save, say a tenner, on something like this? Still - I'm surprised it burst. Now replaced with the thicker stuff.
Anyway - has anybody tried one of these Autostopcock things? (Google it). For £150 I am tempted just for peace of mind whilst the house is empty, but the website gives no indication as to how it works.
Just wondering.
I walk past the outbuilding and hear a bad fizzing noise. I look at the wall on the outside - Flemish bond, single brick. It's damp. I open the door. Dear God. Water spraying everywhere, about half a foot deep in the corner (the floor is uneven so its not flowed out the door). The walls are soaking.
There's a sink in there, fed from mains water which then goes off into the kitchen that butts onto the outbuilding. This 15mm copper pipe has burst for around 1cm . Mains pressure water for God knows how long turning my shed into a wetroom. Looking at the damage / potential damage I am guessing that this happened recently, perhaps today when the sun came out.
Fortunately the damage is limited to wet walls and wet floors. There's no furniture in there and its all brick, stone and tile. The fix takes 10 minutes (I use a speedfit joint for now). My wife thinks I'm a God (although she did, afterwards, say something about Basil Fawlty)
The insulation on the pipework was the thinner 'budget' foam variety. Why-oh-why would people save, say a tenner, on something like this? Still - I'm surprised it burst. Now replaced with the thicker stuff.
Anyway - has anybody tried one of these Autostopcock things? (Google it). For £150 I am tempted just for peace of mind whilst the house is empty, but the website gives no indication as to how it works.
Just wondering.
I`m sure I could spend the money 
