Leaking pipes can leave you very cold!

A comfortable home for most is one place where even God doesn’t trouble you. Or so it would seem!

This is the story of one sorry salesman Larry whose lived in a ‘well-lived’ house in New Jersey. It HAD to be, after all it came to him from his father who himself got it from his father and it seemed to go on as long as the lineage continued. From father to son (strangely no daughters!) the house came down the order as an heirloom. And as with most heirlooms, the last thing anyone cared for was the heirloom itself. It gave shelter, peace, warmth. And that was about it. What went on behind the wooden façade, the old flooring and the walls was no-one’s concern. Worse, what went on in the name of plumbing repairs, nobody cared for. Hell, they couldn’t possibly have even spelt “24-hour emergency plumbing service” if it came to that. Why bother with something which (apparently) seemed to be as strong as the mountains, and the heirloom of a house seemed just that?!

Larry, the 6^th generation in the line of lineage got it in a condition which was anything but good. But he couldn’t care a damn! He was a vacuum-cleaner salesman to whom his daily sales figures were way too important when compared to caring for plumbing services and that too 24 hours emergency plumbing services when according to him, what cannot be seen, never exists.

But then, destiny had other plans to make Larry understand the value of timely repairs and the role 24-hour emergency plumbing services play in making life easy for every

one. One day he came home after a long day of going door to door haggling and having doors slammed shut in his face. New Jersey’s cold, cold breeze wasn’t helping either. With things as they were, he thought it fit to shut shop and head home to a warm bath and some brandy (with warm water of course!). Reaching home Larry just threw whatever he was carrying (including a week-old hamburger inside him!) and relaxed. Changing into a towel, he headed for the bath. In his mind, he was already in the tub, warm water enveloping all of him and his distorted, feverish senses.

Filling the tub to the brim, he added his favourite bubble bath for the right smell and effect. Thinking everything was in place, he did the inevitable when one is so unwell, go backwards into the tub.

Mistakes happen ONLY with humans. And sometimes end up giving a shock of a lifetime. Something similar took place in the space of 3 milli-seconds with Larry. At the same speed that he hit the tub, he was out with the cold, cold water having shocked and stunned his senses. He was numb a while back. Now he was completely in his senses. And looked dumb, confused & confounded. And all because his precious heirloom of a home had problems with its boiler which Larry all but forgot till now. What he had thought (or shall we say, taken for granted) to be warm water like the embrace of a loved one, almost turned into an ice-cold grave. Lucky his heart didn’t stop. And neither his legs give way courtesy all the walking he had to endure going door to door.

In a space of a few minutes, Larry was out of the bath and into his bed, phone in hand calling an emergency 24-hour emergency plumbing service. They came, they say and they declared. Apparently, his home hardly had anything which could carry water from the boiler to the tap and all this called for a major overhaul.

Larry is back to his work. Going door to door with doors still being slammed into his face. But there’s a new realization at the back of his mind. That what cannot be seen can sometimes bring about a mess you don’t want to see and that the best way to go about it is to look for trouble where no one otherwise looks. Like for example, in the insides of a drain!

Moral of the story: If you don’t want to go Larry’s way, its time to call in the experts, the 24-hour emergency plumbing services who will tell you exactly what is happening (or otherwise) with your plumbing and sewer lines! Else, things can go cold, very, very cold!