Szeged Pt2 - it's not all fun, fun, fun.

Three days ago after a night of heavy rain we got up to find water all over the toilet/shower room floor. The roof light had leaked. This had never happened before. Then we noticed that water was running down inside the windows in the bathroom and the kitchen. This had never happened before. We mopped up the water but couldn't find the source of the leaks so assumed it was a one off; parked not quite level? Wind in the wrong direction? Exceptionally heavy rain? We crossed our fingers and set off.

Yesterday after a day in Budapest during which it rained incessantly we came back in the evening to find water all over the floor in the main area and the bathroom. Both roof lights had leaked. The main rooflight had developed a leak in Morocco which I had, unsuccessfuly, repaired and so whilst at home a few weeks ago a garage specialising in Motorhomes had removed the rooflight and replaced it with new seals at not inconsiderable cost. It rained all last night and we had buckets, pots, etc on the floor to catch the drips. Today we have had rain showers but no leaks.

A couple of hours ago I went for a shower, turned the tap on and.......nothing...no water. I could hear the pump working but that was it. I knew I had water because I had filled the tank before we left the campsite this morning. So I open up the water tank to find that a hose had somehow become disconnected. The flexible hose that connects to a rigid pipe is held in place by a jubilee clip, or in this case wasn't. To reconnect the pipes I had to first undo the jubilee clip which, because it had spent it's life under water, was rusted. Oh what fun. Half an hour later the tools were packed away again and we had water.

Oh yes, I forgot, a few days ago I pulled the lever to let off the waste water and the pipe disconnected from the tank so I had to scramble underneath with water pouring over me to reconnect the pipe.

Now,I'm not sharing this with you looking for sympathy. Just to let you know that if you're thinking that it's all beer and skittles well, sometimes we have our bad days too. But the carpet is dried out now, we have water, and we're heading south and it's going to get warmer and we'll have less rain. We hope.

 

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