The fluctuations in temperature this December have been quite extreme, for example, last week temperatures  went down to -31C, it held there for a couple of days then zoomed up to +2C. We liked the increase in temperature, especially as it is forecast to stay in the balmy +2C range for at least the next seven days, but this time what came with it was evidence of two ruptured pipes!

I got up early yesterday, real early, and was settled down in my favourite chair before 6:00AM catching up on some reading when I heard water dripping (pouring!) onto the floor some place in the lodge. The place turned out to be the kitchen, hall way and #1 bedroom. I ran upstairs and found that the radiator in #4 bedroom had burst. It was just as well that I was up early that morning since otherwise the water would have continued to pump out of the ruptured pipe much longer than it did, as it was it took far too long to isolate anyway since there were three valves to close off and I was only aware of two — bloody plumbers make modifications each time they work on the system without ever leaving us with an as built drawing or flow diagram!

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