Rain

[Gert van Santen]

Peter Korsten schreef op 13-10-2013 23:23:
> Gert van Santen schreef op 13-10-2013 22:50:
>
>> Ha, there's lots of rain, coldness and darkness here. It's
>> autumn...
>
> Well... earlier this week, it was raining. Now our handyman
> (Karmenu), who redid our living room, is pretty good, but he has
> a bit of trouble understanding that water, in general, flows
> downward.
>
> There must be some holes in the wall, and if the rain comes from
> the wrong side, it gets into the holes, and this limestone gets
> completely saturated. It's actually seeping out of the wall and
> onto the floor as we speak.
>
> Earlier this week, I woke up because it started to get hot. Hmm,
> airco wasn't working. Hmm, power gone completely. This was at
> 3:55 in the morning.
>
> After switching off all electrical appliances in the house, and
> the ground switch (aardlekschakelaar in Dutch) still tripping, I
> took a different approach and started pulling out the fuses from
> the Wilex box. Turned out that the short circuit was located in
> the kitchen or living room.
>
> That's the cool thing about British electric wiring: you can
> switch off the sockets in a certain area, but still have light to
> work with.
>
> So I unloaded the fridge, carried it out of its nook in the
> kitchen, and connected it with a long cable to another group
> (different fuse from the Wilex box). Then I loaded the fridge,
> went back to bed (but not to sleep) at 5:10, only for the alarm
> to ring at 6:00.
>
> Later that day, I determined that water had seeped into the wall
> and into the tubes for the electricity for the air conditioners.
> Which wouldn't even have been that bad, if it weren't for a light
> switch that the idiot previous owner of the house (a building
> contractor) had connected to the socket. And the water made a
> connection between the "ouch" end of the electricity and the
> wall, so the ground switch tripped.
>
> For a country with such a lot of sunshine, we have a remarkable
> amount of trouble with water. Case in point: tomorrow, they're
> removing the old, ever-leaking solar water heater, and replacing
> it with trusted German quality. To call the current one a cheap
> Chinese piece of crap is an insult to other Chinese products of
> comparatively high quality, such as powdered milk.
>

Now that was an old-fashioned Peter K. Malta report :-)

Hope you guys are getting rid of the water problems soon.

-- 
Gert

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