We’d saved several hundred pounds to buy new tyres for our Land Rover Defender but ended up buying second-hand ones, leaving £200 that could be spent elsewhere. As we have an unfiltered private water supply, which we know isn’t the best, we thought we’d put the spare cash towards a filtration system. The money wouldn’t [...]
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Tag Archives: Water
Water supply restored
19 July, 2011
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The water is flowing again. GRC Aquatech, based in Insch, sent one of their team out first thing this morning. After testing the pump’s insulation resistance and trying it with a different capacitor box, the service engineer diagnosed a faulty pump. He also recommended we change the power cable as water had entered it. He [...]
Read moreRain, rain and not a drop of water
18 July, 2011
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I was out feeding the pigs this morning when the Other Half came out to tell me she’d been having a shower in the midst of which the cold water stopped. When she checked the house header tank, above the dining room, it was dry. Further investigation revealed the hilltop main header tank, which holds [...]
Read moreAlways fit a stopcock
15 June, 2009
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Our only trough with a piped water supply decided to run dry late yesterday, so one of my main jobs today was to identify the problem and fix it. It should have been, and could have been, a simple job that took 15-20 minutes to fix. Instead, it ended up dragging on for almost two [...]
Read moreRunning low on water
1 March, 2009
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I’ve just come in from my daily inspection of the main water tank, which has now fallen below the one-third full mark. We’ve been rationing our water use since the borehole pump’s control panel failed but we’ll now have to move to much tighter rationing. The Other Half is at a friend’s house doing the [...]
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