The hot water valve started dripping in the heatwave. That is usually the valve working
Water expands as it heats and the valve exists to release it. When to leave it alone, when to ring, and the one thing never to do.
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Most water damage here is not the river. It is the same rain, arriving differently
The banks of the Nepean are high, so smaller floods stay in it. What gets into houses is usually stormwater and sewer surcharge, and that is preventable.
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Your house is fifteen years old. What is already worth checking?
A newer house has a short list, and it is fittings and appliances rather than pipework. This climate shortens several of them.
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