Shit House

Morning Mugs,

Yesterday the water pump broke. The 2 year old pump fitted to pump the hot water and upstairs cold has died. Or the electricity supply to it has failed. This is why I hate DIY, hate buildings. They are unreliable. Things just go wrong. No intervention needed. Things with no moving parts fail. Things wear out way before their purported end of life. Things are made from metal the corrodes or wood that rots. And in the world of housebuilding we seem to be using the same techniques and materials as we did 50 years ago. Imagine if all other things were the same as 50 years ago. No mobile phones. No internet. 3 TV channels. Cathode Ray TVs heating the room. 1.3 litre engines giving 20mpg. No computers. No automatic heating and water controls. One phone in the house. No microwave oven. The list goes on. But houses? Oh yeah, timber, breeze block, some concrete, brick and felt mate......thats all you need. And copper pipes, you know the type you can only bend using blow torches. it's archaic bollocks. 

This is the house that Jack built, presumably when he was pissed. In the last few years we've had 3 water leakages, one so severe it took £15k to repair the damage. This year alone 2 water leaks have meant insurance repairs. We've had around 10 vacuum cleaners in 19 years, we're on our 6th dishwasher and 7th washing machine in the same time. 

So being a man of logic and science. It's either a shit built house. Or we have a poltergeist.

Later Mugs, GJ