Who's been unlucky enough,,,,,

[Die Judicii]

This doesn't apply to those who live in the city with town supply water
But,,,,,,,,, for those out of town and reliant on rain water via household pressure pump/s,,,,,,,
Who's been unlucky enough to be in the shower,,, all lathered up,,, and then cop a power outage ????

I copped it the other day.

[bladeracer]

We're on tank water, but only from head pressure, we don't use pumps.
I think I've only used pump-pressure water supply when we lived in the bus for two years, and we don't have a shower in there

[Bugman]

OR! For those on town water, having a shower, when some nitwit turns on either cold tap or HW tap in some other part of the house. GGGGGRRRRR! DOH!

[cz515]

Yeah what about when a kid had a bath.... (yes but don't argue). we have a plumbing issue and the pump senses a leak and kills itself.

And then you go 4 a shower and there is no water period.

[bladeracer]

OR! For those on town water, having a shower, when some nitwit turns on either cold tap or HW tap in some other part of the house. GGGGGRRRRR! DOH!

Strangely, that's a problem for us as well.
The hot water comes out of a storage tank in the roof space (it comes from the rainwater tank but only draws cold water in when a hot tap gets opened), the cold supply comes straight from the water tank 60m up the hill. It means our hot supply is _very_ hot (the piping runs through a coil within the rear wall of the wood stove), with no regulation at the tap, so we crack the hot tap just enough to get a dribble, then use the cold tap to regulate the temperature to something less than scolding, which is a very, very fine adjustment

But if somebody flushes the dunny or uses another tap in the house, it drops enough pressure at the cold shower tap to make the water scalding hot

[Blr243]

If this were a plumbing forum , who’s been unlucky enough to be working at the lowere end of a sewer pipe , and homeowners forget not to use the toilet , and send waste all over plumber ? Expect bill to be 500 bucks more

[cz515]

Lol and in that case justified

[Die Judicii]

If this were a plumbing forum , who’s been unlucky enough to be working at the lowere end of a sewer pipe , and homeowners forget not to use the toilet , and send waste all over plumber ? Expect bill to be 500 bucks more

Ha,,,,, yeah.
I knew a plumber down Sth that actually did have that very scenario happen to him.
Yuk.

[Shootermick]

I’m on a farm with a pressure system.
About a month ago the power was off for 24 hrs, I plugged the generator into the pressure pump so that we could all have a shower that night. Then at about 11 that night my 8 year old got up and did the biggest spew I think I’ve ever seen. Had to go out and turn the generator on again so he could have another shower and I had some water to mop it up with. No lights so I was cleaning it up with the head torch on. Not a good night.

[Oldbloke]

If this were a plumbing forum , who’s been unlucky enough to be working at the lowere end of a sewer pipe , and homeowners forget not to use the toilet , and send waste all over plumber ? Expect bill to be 500 bucks more

Just ask the resident plumber, "mchughcb". I'm sure he has experienced it. Spends a lot of his time with his trigger finger in the S bend.

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[Blr243]

Ob , I just finished my evening meal. Can we ban u for a month for posting that photo ?

[Die Judicii]

Ob , I just finished my evening meal. Can we ban u for a month for posting that photo ?

Yeah,, That was pretty gross