I posted this in plumbing, but thought it was worth a mention here too...

This is my own bodge.....

I came home from work last night and went as I usually do to my new workshop (As I passed the garden gate I heard a whooooooshing sound) thinking....gulp, we've had cold weather, the outside tab has gone, i'm gonna get wet, i rushed inside to turn the water off...

This is a new house to me, so spent some time searching to find the outside tap was plumbed direct to mains feed with no isolator valve to cut of the feed....So on with the waterproofs and out to the garden....

My water tap is at the top of this "crappy well type thing" (note to self, rip it out in the summer) anyway, it turns out there is a hose running from the tap at the top of the well to a stopcock at the the bottom of the well....and it looked like the hose was split slightly from freezing....

This is the best bit....
So as a complete amateur I relaxed and thought, that's ok, i can turn the bottom stopcock off, remove the split hose and carry on with workshop duties....(and this is what I eventually did....) before i could do that, I stupidly grabbed the hose, it split completely in two at the bottom tap and I got what felt like 20 bar pressure of freezing cold water straight up my hooter......

I'm laughing now, but it felt like crap at the time and wet and cold...fortunately i still have both eyes today....and the conservatory got a good wash in the process....

Next job, work out how to cut the mains pressure to fit a seperate valve....

P.S. Top tip, an umbrella opened and placed over the top of a leak that firing 20ft in the air helps a little in keeping the facial spray levels down...

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