{"id":1519,"date":"2016-10-01T17:55:43","date_gmt":"2016-10-01T16:55:43","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.the-salutation.co.uk\/blog\/?p=1519"},"modified":"2017-02-17T16:43:17","modified_gmt":"2017-02-17T16:43:17","slug":"the-great-flood-of-2016","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.the-salutation.co.uk\/blog\/the-great-flood-of-2016\/","title":{"rendered":"The Great Flood of 2016"},"content":{"rendered":"

The muppet who installed the cold water tank in the loft neglected to include a pipe from the overflow to outside.\u00a0\u00a0 Unfortunately I was in Sweden when the ball cock failed and had to travel home early.<\/p>\n

In the loft I have removed the wet insulation to allow the ceiling to dry. \u00a0 It was only installed last year.<\/p>\n

\"wet-loft\"<\/p>\n

The water flowed into Kae’s bedroom soaking everything. The carpet and bed have gone to the tip.\u00a0 I don’t know how the floor stayed so dry – the carpet was soaking.<\/p>\n

\"wet-bedroom\"<\/p>\n

From there it poured into the snug, mostly avoiding the kitchen that was stored there, but soaking most of Kae’s things.\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 It did a good job of removing the wood chip wallpaper from the ceiling.<\/p>\n

\"wet-snug\"<\/p>\n

Rocco came over to help remove the carpets and clear out water damaged things.<\/p>\n

\"junk\"<\/p>\n

The one good thing is this is an old house and the breathable construction hasn’t suffered much damage and should dry out OK.\u00a0\u00a0 Wouldn’t have fancied having a flood like this in a modern house.<\/p>\n

I have purchased an overflow pipe for the water tank.\u00a0\u00a0 It cost \u00a315 and will take about half an hour to fit.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

The muppet who installed the cold water tank in the loft neglected to include a pipe from the overflow to outside.\u00a0\u00a0 Unfortunately I was in Sweden when the ball cock failed and had to travel home early. In the loft I have removed the wet insulation to allow the ceiling to dry. \u00a0 It was […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1519","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-general"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.the-salutation.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1519","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.the-salutation.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.the-salutation.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.the-salutation.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.the-salutation.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1519"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/www.the-salutation.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1519\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1575,"href":"https:\/\/www.the-salutation.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1519\/revisions\/1575"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.the-salutation.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1519"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.the-salutation.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1519"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.the-salutation.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1519"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}