"Graham." wrote in message
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In the final stages of completing the bathroom refurbishment. So connect
the tap and the waste drain, connected the two flexi hoses to the tap
and then just the hot to the incoming pipe, thought to test the tap was
ok ...turns it on and water starts ****in out the cold water flexi hose,
as the water was sputing out the tap I didnt realise it was going all
over the floor from the cold unattached flexi hose.

Ah well we live and learn.

Do they all do that I wonder? I thought there were rules about not
contaminating the mains cold water with the hot.

Going back to having water ****ing out all over the place...

I once had to change the immersion heater element in the *side* of my hot
water cylinder. This meant draining the header tank, disconnecting the inlet
and outlet pipes, walking the still full cylinder round to get at the drain
cock which was on the *back*, and emptying the cylinder through a hosepipe.

When I took the immersion heater box spanner back to the hire shop, the guy
told me about a customer who had forgotten a) to let the tank cool down, and
b) to empty it of all the water (turning off the inlet or emptying the
header tank isn't enough). And so he unscrewed the element and when it was
held by the last thread, the pressure was too great for the thread to hold
it, so he was punched in the goolies by an immersion heater element which
shot out, propelled by a 4" "plug" of scalding hot water - and once the
element was out, there was no way to put it back in again, so he had to wait
for a hundred or so litres of hot water to run through the house. That would
have been one hell of an insurance claim...