Leaking Pipe - Levellling Screed helps save Vinyl Flooring ,until it was removed sodden damp underneath

How it looked when Finished in November 2013.

Ten years have been and gone since the upheaval of the burst water pipe found beneath our bedroom floor.
One night we lay sleeping and heard a hissing noise as if one of us had left the tap on - it wasn't on - so I traced the route lying with my ear to the carpet and where it was noiseiest the carpet was warm and dampish - sure enough a Water Leak which turned out to a pitted pipe in a screeded channel in the concrete floor.

You can see the damage which was caused , many many many weeks later we were back to normal.

Ten years 2013 on almost to the day" hissss" I heard a rushing noise from the Mono Block in the Bathroom ensuite to the Bedroom - you could here it anywhere you listened to the taps through out the house - but where is the Leak ?

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I phoned Gas Boiler HomeCover which includes  the Plumbing Option and they sent a Dyno-Rod Plumber who confirmed the Leak was on the Cold Feed Mains Supply to all Appliances but where he could not tell so has instructed a Leak Test Locator also Dyno-Rod to come here on Monday next and he will tell us where on the floor to dig and  open the concrete to sort the Leak.

After a day airing it was still damp and I brgan to look at the Plinths of the Kitchen fitments which were chipboard and swollen and therefore now await Friday - the return of the men to dig up and expose the broken pipe.

Had my dinner in the Garden quite late letting the room air and got a bonus of this view at Sunset.

Next few days they came to find and fix it .

This took a while due to the pipe lying on the concrete bed surrounded and topped off with 4 inches of screed so Sonic  detector was similar along the length, it was eventually traced by watching the particles flow in the water.

All ok now just to use the Dehumidifier for a while !

eMiddle of October and DynoRod arrived to fill the dried out holes in the screed . They lagged the pipes and added almost all the Screed mix they had and said we'll be back once it dries out and level it smooth.

Kitchen still works a nice Salmon Spaghetti Stirfry for dinner.

Rugby Player a Hooker arrived from DynoRod to finish smooth filling the Floor damage,

he played for Monivie RFC in Donegall

 

 

The chosen Vinyl was similar to previous but more cushioned giving a warmer feel.

BEGS 2013 which is Bahrain Exiles Golf Society and we were at Gatton Manor Hotel and Golf Course near Abinger UK

Rather more moans and groans just now, an  over hot day of 36 holes of Golf -Stableford and then a Scramble - just as well as proper golf would have been too much for me on the day due to poor clothing size and choice.

I got a bit of chaffing which I am sitting on !

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2012 was a bit wet as you can see 

however here is 2013

 

 

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If you choose just to stay there it is slightly awkward to find unless by taxi or SatNav.

A lovely venue even just for a walk as there are Public Footpaths around it.

Nice Staff and Food Quality.

Good showers for after the Golf.

Off to buy some more Golf balls now - good fun.

B.L.O.G. - BRITISH LIBRAY'S ORIGONAL GOVERNOR - GEORGE III.- not !

George III was the owner of the :large Library given to The Nation.

40 Years ago the present Library was created from that under an Act of Parliament in the House of Lords.

However without George III and Lord Grenville his friend we would not know some peoples opinions.

Yes the Georgian Period in history spans 1714 - 1837 George I,II,III,IV,V,VI

The Main happenings - The Union of the Crowns 1707 & The Reform Act 1832.Ireland

Why mention it ? It is my job , I am lucky enough to wonder around beneath the passing Euston Road next to St Pancras railway Station,  in a maze of books, which are used as well as Researched, for the Source of Exhibitions held in The British Library.

This Blog, will take you past me in my workplace, in the Time Zone of the coming Exhibition of,  The Georgian Period.( no Starbucks then !) that, was Propaganda.

 There was Pizza however although not Pizza Express, there was also Travel Agents - The Grand Tour was one form of that shop. Xmas  I'm quite sure existed, this is Xmas 2012 outside The British Library.

 

 

 

 

This was next door as we moved in.

 

 

This wad Grorge Bush visiting Buckingham Palace.

 

 

huge trucks now crawl past the Library on Euston Road.

 

 

If only the truckers could stop for their tea here courtesy of Peyton and Byrne.

 

 

 

 

 

 Highland Clearances

 

Clearing the Highlands of people and farming the Sheep takes the Georgian period over to where they the people were cleared to, and our families  latest addition there will need his woolly mits.