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VERY exciting....

Yesterday I heard that the mending of my plumbing would only be planned 3 weeks from now. Which for neighbours below me was not very nice. Since they had tested the coloured water in my bath/shower I thought to be nice and not use the shower/bath as much or long as I would normally do.

So, a few days I even just washed at the basin to not flush the neighbours but felt a little bit miffed because 3 weeks is very long to feel you can not have a long long shower!

So, even if apprehensive, I was over the moon to hear that TODAY would be the day it would all be made better. Also very scary because they can only know how dramatic it is going to be once they have it all open.

So.. toilet off and cut a big bit out of the back wall to expose the pipes... In the picture you can see a top pipe (bath) and a lower pipe which turned out to be from the basins in both my toilet and bathroom. The same basin I used instead of the bath to not flush the neighbours...




Turns out that the bottom pipe was the culprit, it had a 20cm rotted hole in it! Amazing:


Which of course means that instead of helping the neighbours I was flushing them even more! The bathwater that I used mostly went right down only a bit flowed back into this rotted bit.
We also found out that ALL people above me using water flushed the neighbours and they didn't even know they had to stop using water - OOPS :)

Anyway... it meant that they had to discard that pipe totally and do a bypass from the basin in the bathroom and the basin in the toilet and connect it directly.

Which doesn't exactly look like the most beautiful solution in the world as you can see:


But... apart from that, only 1 broken tile which is a lot LESS dramatic than I feared, hooray!
Took them the best part of the day though, started at 7 and it is now 1800 and they are still at it! Definitely getting there now though!

So.. 1900 and finally they are gone and I can conclude it is NOT very nice just now.

Sunday K is coming by to help me paint the bedroom so I think we will also have a go at that pipe to see if it can be made a little bit less in once face ;)

Life is very interesting at the moment, to say the least!