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HOW TO MAINTAIN AGING WATER PIPES BEFORE DISASTER STRIKES · The Real Estate Show

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  Speaker 1: Let's hear this sorry tale.
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  Speaker 2: Renee. Hey, Well, well, I came into work last week
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  Speaker 2: and you and I, you know, have a catch up
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  Speaker 2: about how our week's been, what's been happening. And one
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  Speaker 2: of the things I said to you our living room
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  Speaker 2: was underwater. So on Wednesday last week, my mum was
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  Speaker 2: at home looking after our two litley's and one of
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  Speaker 2: the pipes burst under the kitchen sink and water was
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  Speaker 2: going everywhere. Thankfully, we have awesome neighbors, a bunch of them,
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  Speaker 2: you know, kind of came over. The neighbor's son in
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  Speaker 2: law's a plumb us, so he came over and fixed it.
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  Speaker 1: So it was all hands on deck because the water
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  Speaker 1: was gushing.
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  Speaker 2: It was gushing. Mum's ringing me. I'm here at the
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  Speaker 2: radio station, and she's getting dad to come over, and
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  Speaker 2: the neighbors and any it was a whole whole thing.
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  Speaker 2: I get home, there's mops in hand. I'll go and
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  Speaker 2: grab another one from another neighbor. It's a whole whole
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  Speaker 2: sun of the girls are locked in the rumpus room,
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  Speaker 2: you know, and we are lucky that we were actually
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  Speaker 2: home because this happens to people who aren't home. And
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  Speaker 2: I know that you've had this happened before as well.
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  Speaker 1: Yes, and did only a couple of years ago, same thing.
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  Speaker 1: We're actually out of cam r and Matilda youngest daughter
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  Speaker 1: was at home looking after the house and she wouldn't
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  Speaker 1: have known what to do well, So it was the
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  Speaker 1: bathroom underneath the main vanity off it when Bush Yes,
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  Speaker 1: and so then I had to get on the phone
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  Speaker 1: and talk how to go out to the main water
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  Speaker 1: meter and turn it off anyway, So we got through it.
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  Speaker 1: But as a result of these sorts of life experiences, yes,
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  Speaker 1: it just makes for great content on the radio.
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  Speaker 2: Yes, we bring it to work and we share it
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  Speaker 2: with you guys because we know this is not an
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  Speaker 2: unfamiliar tale, especially you know with older camber properties. And
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  Speaker 2: Laurence Miller is one of the owners. At local trade
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  Speaker 2: business level Canberra.
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  Speaker 3: Good morning, get tell you.
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  Speaker 2: Yes, good, thank you so much for joining us. Now, look,
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  Speaker 2: why do older water pipes randomly burst at any given moment.
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  Speaker 3: Well, that's a question we get, We get asked all
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  Speaker 3: the time and the truth really is that they don't
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  Speaker 3: just randomly burth. So you know, most pipes have been
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  Speaker 3: slowly deteriorating over a long period of time, and there's
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  Speaker 3: usually some things you can see happening from the outside,
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  Speaker 3: but generally it's all on the inside of the pipe, right.
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  Speaker 3: But yeah, we're sort of, you know, camera having homes
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  Speaker 3: built between you know, nineteen fifties and nineteen eighties and nineties,
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  Speaker 3: things are starting to age. And yeah, some of those
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  Speaker 3: warning signs, yeah, sometimes can't be seen and they are
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  Speaker 3: they are unforeseen things that just do occur, okay.
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  Speaker 1: And so if you do live in one of those
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  Speaker 1: older properties, like so the you know, our property was
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  Speaker 1: fifty years old, right, So there is there any way
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  Speaker 1: that you can sort of maintain or check the water
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  Speaker 1: pipes as you go along.
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  Speaker 3: Yeah, Look, one of the key things to do if
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  Speaker 3: you've had if you've already had a leak before, you're
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  Speaker 3: likely to have a leak again. And then that's obviously
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  Speaker 3: where you align a licensed plumber to come in and
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  Speaker 3: have a look at the pipework and investigate and to
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  Speaker 3: see if there are things that can be upgraded. And traditionally,
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  Speaker 3: the more traditional bursts were at the moment, are usually
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  Speaker 3: under the sinks with those those stainless stel braided hoses. Yeah. Yeah,
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  Speaker 3: but also too heading into winter obviously we're going to
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  Speaker 3: start to see the old frozen pipes starting to raise
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  Speaker 3: their head again.
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  Speaker 2: So yeah, and with my situation, Lawrence, we were lucky
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  Speaker 2: that our living room is a sunken living room, so
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  Speaker 2: the water poled, a water kind of pooled in that area.
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  Speaker 2: But thankfully though didn't spread to others area of the house,
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  Speaker 2: which of cause, would have caused more of a problem
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  Speaker 2: because we were different flooring in other areas of the house.
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  Speaker 2: But no doubt you've seen, no doubt you've seen it
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  Speaker 2: all in your time. What's the worst example of this
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  Speaker 2: happening that you've been caught out to?
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  Speaker 3: Look? Last year, do you remember the Colt snap and
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  Speaker 3: it was so we're experiencing somewhere near minus five minus
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  Speaker 3: seven that winter. So this this, we had over one
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  Speaker 3: hundred and thirty calls that weekend. But this and lucky
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  Speaker 3: may I was on on call there with the guys,
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  Speaker 3: and we got a call out to this this lady
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  Speaker 3: on the Monday, right, So she'd returned home from her
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  Speaker 3: time away and the line for the water pipe to
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  Speaker 3: her evapp cooler hadn't been drained for the winter, and
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  Speaker 3: it had split and ran for two days. So down
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  Speaker 3: through the ceiling, then into a kitchen, destroyed a kitchen,
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  Speaker 3: and then obviously then the mold starts to set in.
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  Speaker 3: You know, by the time she got home and her
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  Speaker 3: heater was on, the house was warming up a little bit,
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  Speaker 3: and it was an absolute disaster. I felt it absolutely
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  Speaker 3: terrible for her. But we're obviously able to fix it up,
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  Speaker 3: and we worked fairly closely with a cleaning company, so
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  Speaker 3: we were able to get her, you know, get things
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  Speaker 3: clean up. But yeah, there was hor endous damage there,
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  Speaker 3: like lots of a kitchen, flooring, roof, ceiling, you know,
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  Speaker 3: all those things, so fairly disaster it imagine.
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  Speaker 2: Yes, well that's the thing. Like we were just lucky
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  Speaker 2: that someone was there when it happened, and you know,
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  Speaker 2: your daughter was there in your case, and my mum
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  Speaker 2: and mind, but so many cases people are away and
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  Speaker 2: things like that, it's much worse. But all right, Lawrence,
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  Speaker 2: well that was really interesting. Thank you for letting me
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  Speaker 2: not only vent to you, but also learn a little
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  Speaker 2: bit about the work that you do the So thank
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  Speaker 2: you so much.
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  Speaker 3: No no dramas at all.
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  Speaker 2: All right, have a good weekend. Lawrence Miller, who's one
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  Speaker 2: of the owners of local trade business Level Camera