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posted by [identity profile] epistrophia.livejournal.com at 10:21am on 06/09/2009
Oh, I feel your pain. Our cottage has a back boiler, and we'd never had one before so it didn't really register that the water was boiling in the tank until the day when, at 4am, the tank gave up the ghost and emptied itself over the living-room floor. Thank God it was on the ground floor. And that we have floorboards not carpets.

If there is so much as a gurgle now, we both leap for the nearest tap.

(And it's not as though I can even have a bath - there is a better than 50% chance that I'd end up in the living room. Our house, she is fragile...)
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Our house, she is fragile..

posted by [identity profile] gillyp.livejournal.com at 10:46am on 06/09/2009
Meep! omg! Never had anything like that thank all the gods, though we once had a spring rise in the kitchen.

Our bathroom has the best floor in the house; we wanted stone tiles so we had to have a 3/4" layer of plywood screwed down first, it's the only floor that doesn't squeak and bend alarmingly. *g* The bedroom's solid enough but the boards are riddled with (now dead) woodworm, not pretty enough to polish and see alas.

We feel each others pain. ::huggles the epistrophia::

The stove is certainly efficient but lawks a lawdy, I wish it wouldn't *do* that, you know? Now we know it's working properly, we're letting it go out. We have every window open and it's like August in the Caribbean in here. :o)

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