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LUVMBDiesels · #8 08-14-2007, 05:24 PM

A friend and I were redoing the kitchen in a town house I had bought. We THOUGHT we had shut off all the water in the house and started to cut off the old pipes to the faucet. Well lo-and-behold, it turned out that that line still had pressure in it. The pipe came off with a BANG and the water came gushing, no streaming, no erupting out of the 1/2 inch pipe. The basement was flooded instantly as I ran outside to shut off the main line (inside a pipe well about 4 feet underground) Well the cover of this well was never put on right and it was full of rainwater. I grabbed the valve and had the handle come off in my hand! Running back inside I saw my friend trying in vain to hold a rag on the end of the pipe. I grabbed a pair of pliers and went out and finally shut off the water. Both of us were soaked and miserable. We then had to finish the job we started and get the water back on.

Now this was at 2am and remember what I said about it being a town house? The next door neighbors had just come home from a day out horseback riding and the wife was in the shower all soapy when all of a sudden the water went off! It turns out that the main supplied both houses.

Next day they mentioned the water going off at 2am and I had to say "really? it did?"