Not just you, JTA: while trying to lower the pressure while hunting for the stop tap, this morning, I noticed that the pressure was remarkably high; and I’m aware that Welsh Water are doing a lot of work digging up the town at the moment (we were advised yesterday to not drink any discoloured water at work), so maybe a pressure surge is what caused my pipes to fail. But looks like they must’ve had something wrong in the first place to be vulnerable at all.

Plumber’s here now and had is poking at my hole (ooh-err), so we’ll get there in the end. Man, I’m tired.