This weekend Kevin popped around with his supped-up white van and extensive De-Walt toolkit. Kevin replaced the stop cock under the kitchen sink, replaced a couple of washers, showed me his toolkit and van customisations, offered me a half-price radiator, discussed replacing my kitchen, explained about the Canadian plummer training system, and told me about his courtcase against a tap manufacturer because their tap design is just so silly it breaks within 6 months and he’d installed 26 of them in a rich client’s house.
Kevins weekly visits are definitely one of life’s luxuries.
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.
Kevin the Canadian wonder plummber stopped by. Some people have implied that my unreserved praise of Kevin may not be motivated by plumming necessities. Heres a summary of our November rendezvous at The Wendy House:
1) 2 weeks ago to fix the hot water hose on my washing machine.
2) 1 week ago to fix the leaking bathroom sink plughole pipe.
3) this week to unblock the bathroom drain.
After unblocking the drain Kevin gave me, for free, his spare set of rods and tuition on how to unblock the drain myself. Awesome, with Kevins thoughtful tution I am gradually learning the basics of how to look after my home. Kevins outstanding full service cost less than the basic call-out charge of any of the online drainage services.
