Dealing with emergencies ÿin yourÿ home.

One of the most commonplace emergencies around the house is a burst pipe. When a water pipe produces a leak a lot of people tend to panic and frantically search for a plumber. The panic is comprehensible but staying calm is a lot better as you can deal with the predicament a lot better. If you find a leak or burst pipe then the most important thing to do is try and control the water using buckets. This approach will lessen the amount of spoil that the water will cause. The next thing to do is to turn off the water supply to your residence.

It is always a smart move to find the mains cold water stop valve. Every home owner should find this device so if a leak occurs the water can be shut off fairly quickly. If your home is not fitted with a shut off valve then you can typically turn the water off in the street with the use of a special key or just by hand. The external shut off valve is normally found in the walkway outside your residence.

When the water is switched off the leak may stop in an instant but if it doesn't then the leak is in the central heating equipment. If this is the case just try and control the leak making use of buckets until a plumber comes out to do his work. Leaks from central heating systems will ultimately quit as the system drains down but this will take some time.

Another common home emergency is the electricity tripping out and leaving your home without electrical power. This is actually a job for an electrician but you can reinstate limited power to your home depending on the fault. If your electricity has tripped out then a fault has occurred in one of the electrical circuits in your residence. If you go to your consumer unit or fuse board and turn all the MCB’s to the off position and then turn on the mains switch on and reset your RCD unit. Then one after the other turn on the MCB’s until the RCD trips out once again, make a note of the circuit that has activated the RCD and leave that breaker off. Now you can restore reduced power to your house until the electrician arrives to sort out the job properly.

If the flawed circuit is one that is supplying the sockets in your home then unplug any device that is powered from this circuit i.e. kettles, lamps etc. as the flaw may be in an item like this rather than the circuit its self. It is advisable to call an electrician out just to be of the secure side.

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