Deal With A Burst (Initial Actions)

One of the most likely emergencies for anyone to face is the water leak. Nothing else is quite so emotional as to watch water running down through your ceiling, or trickling through your wall, or even rising up through your flooring. The first thing to do if you are a victim is to turn off the main interior stopcock, then choose whether to call in a plumber like SW11 Plumbers or to try and tackle it yourself. If you’re going to have a go yourself, you need to have an emergency repair kit at the ready. It should contain a selection of spanners, a hacksaw, a pipe cutter, a selection of compression joints, very short lengths of copper pipe in a range of diameters, half a dozen jubilee clips, and epoxy putty repair kit, a gas torch, a small pot of flux, a roll of lead solder, a pack of fine grade wire wool, a roll of PTFE tape, and a good torch. A Catastrophic Emergency is when there is a large water leak, and the volume of water such that it is likely to damage the building. SW11 Plumbers can deal with and rectify leaks. On a cold evening, you come home after a lovely evening out. The floor is awash and water is pouring down the kitchen wall. The first thing to do is to isolate the main stopcock for the house, then, go around the property and flush the toilet, and turn on all the taps to drain the water. Once the water has stopped running, use a torch and look inside the loft to locate the leaking or burst pipe. Rub the area around the burst pipe with wire wool and make a temporary mend with epoxy putty, as per the instructions on the tin. Mop up the water. Once you have carried out these actions you should really call a professional plumber, or roll up your sleeves and replace the section of pipe. If the leak was on an older plumbing system, consider replacing the whole system. another good idea is to go around the system and re-insulate all the pipework.