Kind of reminds me about an incident shortly after we came here with the old
bathroom suite. The bathroom is directly above the kitchen, and at that time
the Kitchen had one of those ceiling mounted globe lights with a 100w bulb
in it. So Father has a bath, Mother in kitchen doing some snacks. As the
bath drains the globe light starts to fill with water, but the light is
still on.

Mother notices and dad puts the plug back in the bath.

The up bend had partially come away from its pipe and water was spreading
out inside the ceiling void and trickling down the light fitting. Bloody
amazing nobody got electrocuted really, considering the crude fuse wire
consumer unit in place at the time. It took days with floorboards up in the
bathroom and fan heaters on to dry it all out. Luckily it was not able to
soak into the plaster and make it collapse as we caught it in time. It was
interesting for a few days skipping over the holes in the bathroom floor to
go to the loo though. Quite how the globe did not detach from the ceiling
with it three quarters full of water is anyone's guess, this after all was
the age of bakelite.
Brian

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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.