I’m glad my radiator sprung a leak today.

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I noticed a small leak coming from the radiator in my daughter’s bedroom this morning. I fiddled with it a bit and it turned in a very big leak worthy of the attention of a plumber. The offending part, hidden from view, had begun to rust, in fact it was held together by rust and my tinkering was the final straw. So receptacles were found of a suitable size, to catch the flow and a plumber was phoned. He was busy of course and could not arrive for another 3 hours but arrive he did, isolated the radiator and arranged to return on Friday with a new radiator to install. The carpet is now sodden but that’s no big deal because it is old and we intended replacing it anyway. Thankfully it all happened today - had it waited a week to leak the story would be different, because we’re going to England for a week next Tuesday, and a leak that size flowing freely for a week would have caused untold damage.