Whats more to say.
In order to get a building warrant, I need 2 inspection pits to show the founds for an engineering report.
Cutting a long story short ... i dug straight through the mains pipe running into the house ... oops. To be fair, I had no idea where it was meant to be, and i was looking out for it. Our house on the plot is not the one that was specced on the plans when the estate was built in the 70's
The wife aint happy. I suggested weeing in shoes, and that a set of bombers would sort it, but she didn't seem to understand. 
Want to know the best bit ? There is no stop cock in the street to shut the water off. So I cant repair it at the moment until the water dig up the road and re-instate the toby that they tarmac'ed over last year.
true!
