Slightly fixed

   

    The title of this post comes from Claire's little mis-type in her comment here, so thank you, Claire for that and for making me smile.

    We are very much in 'slightly fixed' mode here as following on from last week's boiler installation we've had variously a gas leak, a broken radiator, and water pouring through a ceiling.

    The gas leak has been fixed, thank goodness, the radiator will be replaced later this week, and the ultimate cause of the water ingress traced soon, we hope, though buckets and mop are still at the ready.

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    The picture is nothing to do with plumbing, leaks, and broken things, but shows the fireplace in a newly redecorated bedroom which, when the house was a convent, was the nuns' chapel. We have wondered whether the figures might represent St. Veronica. Anyway, all is clear and calm in that room at least.

Comments

[Val]

Gosh a rather more eventful than desirable series of events...but a very calming fireplace.

The house I grew up in occasionally had water dripping into bowls (before we repaired the roof ...slates fell off) and once we had water soaking through a wall
..which turned out to be a corroded down spout (a hidden crack on the wall side high up) with water penetrating the wall when it rained and seeping down the wall to become a damp downstairs wall. That one took a little puzzling. So best wishes on you leak hunt!

[Cornflower]

Funny you should mention a corroded downpipe, Val, for we have that as well! It's not related to the current water through the ceiling situation, but is ongoing - we await scaffolders and builders.

[Fran H-B]

It is true that things have a tendency to come along in threes. It sounds as if your limit has been well reached. Commiserations as I have a drain problem, a dying washing machine and fridge....
What a lovely fireplace. I would be in that room seeking serenity when faced with your calamities!

[Cornflower]

Ah well, worse things happen at sea, but I hope your drain and appliance woes will be at an end soon, Fran.

[Claire]

What a lovely fireplace and how wonderful live in an old convent and have a bedroom that was a chapel. Hope your problems are continuing to resolve.

We've just had a woodburner installed in a sitting room and then lovely, helpful painters, I changed my mind about the wall colour when the room was half done... I, too, have adopted 'slightly fixed' as a useful term!

[Cornflower]

We understand the nuns' priest used to hear confession in the cupboard under the stairs!