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Peter132 wrote on Thu Apr 28, 2022 4:43pm:
Hello all contributors, I have lived in Spain for 17 years so from my personal experience, may I confirm all the advice to switch off at the main supply & turn off water at the external stop-cock on the supply side of the water meter, if possible. We had the water main fracture under the fron...
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...t path when the house was occupied and it was not possible for a normal person to detect the leak. When we got a bill for 2000€ for our normal 3 month period, we had to get the plumbers to listen to the garden paths with their trained ears, then the leak was located. This was not covered by insurance.
Also, we have experienced a bag of rice infested by furniture woodworm which filled the room with crawling beetles. We also had a plastic box with a tight-fitting lid, half-full with Oxo cubes, infested with furniture woodworm and the beetles bored holes through the metal foil in order to reproduce. We have also opened a proprietary bag of compost with two cockroaches escaping and giving us the run-around on our balcony. A friend repositioned a ceiling light and failed to seal the old cable hole, with the result that he had cockroach visitors every night crawling down his dressing gown. I think that is enough to demonstrate that we need to be aware and be careful. Regards, Peter
Peter,
I can sympathise with you re your underground leak. They are incredibly difficult to find. I am currently going through the same problem as you did. My pipe from the meter to the house is 800 metres long and it is not covered by the house insurance and the water company will not help as the leak is beyond the meter.
I have been trying for weeks to find someone with a gas testing kit to come and do a check. The ones I have managed to talk to just don't turn up. So every couple of days I have to go down the road and turn the water on to fill my holding tank. It's getting to be a real pain.
Can anyone help? A gas tester is the only way to find the leak as the pipe is well buried.
