Dec 02 2008
cold… …water
The combination boiler rattles in the kitchen, warming water and pumping it around the Wendy House 5 radiators.
Outside, water on the patio has already frozen. Temperatures of minus 3 centigrade are predicted tonight.
Inside, the radiator-free kitchen releases a trickle of water from beneath the kitchen units. A leaking pipe? A phone call to Kevin.
I discover that the mobile phone service doesn’t work when my head and mobile phone are both in the cupboard under the chilly kitchen sink while I try to answer Kevin’s questions, to determine how many millimetres thick are the pipes that lead to and from my suspiciously rusty stop-tap.
Will the pipes survive the predicted below freezing temperatures of the night? Stay tuned for the leaky-pipe fly-on-the-wall, phone-under-the-sink, real life potential plumbing drama.
cold… …water
Oh. Good luck. And keep warm.
Sx