"Brian Gaff" wrote in message
...
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.

The water isnt conductive enough to electrocute anyone
even if you walk around with bare feet thru the water.

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.

"ss" wrote in message
...
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.