yonmei

01:38 pm: Water, water, everywhere
I don't know any of my neighbour's phone numbers.

(Why would I? I never phone them!)

According to Scottish Water, who rang me back quite promptly, there are no other reports of outages in my area, suggesting it's a plumbing problem, and they say that the most likely cause of the outage is someone else having plumbing work done and the plumber turning off the wrong water supply from the street.

This sounds appallingly likely, and of course means zero cost to me in fixing it, but I say "appalling" because, well: the only way of finding out is to go ask all my neighbours. And there's no point doing that till post-work time.

...and at that point, there will be no getting a plumber out till tomorrow, probably, which means another evening without the capacity to make bread or soup (unless I buy beer), to shower (unless I go to the gym) or to use a flush toilet (without walking at least half a mile).

This applies still more so if no one has had plumbing work done and I just have to call a damn plumber and find out what the problem is.

I don't have time for this. I just want my water back.

(Adding to the catalogue of problems, because of the way my heating system works, I am afraid to turn the central heating system on - I certainly don't want the boiler to heat up the empty hot water tank.)




Tags: venting, water