Check out this video of a burst mains. Madness

[Dannypipe]

I've seen a similar video to this, I think it was up North somewhere.

Mental.

Ruptured Pipe Floods City In Hungary - Yahoo! News UK

 

[dontknowitall]

Damn!!

Forgot me push fit stop end ...

 

[AWheating]

good flow rate, should be able to fit an unvented on that without problems.

 

[glenno1]

Now where is that stopcock

 

[GQuigley67]

this is what some people seem to act like is happening in their house when there is a tiny drip from a fitting lol

 

[on31ll]

gate valve will sort that !

looks likes the red car comes from the hole

 

[Mike Jackson]

And this is what happens when you fit a flexi.

 

[Bernie2]

Condensation!

 

[glenno1]

More like compensation

 

[PlumbBobBob]

"my husband had a go............"

 

[Dannypipe]

Blows my mind, but someone actually had to turn a valve off to stop this.

(Said it run for an hour).

So some form of monster valve did switch the supply off. (Or they switched the pump at the local station off).

Amazing really.

 

[GQuigley67]

big giant gate valve with 10 guys turning it

 

[Mike Jackson]

Huge ballofix valve turned off with a giant screwdriver or a massive pipe bung in the outlet from the reservoir.

 

[hammers4spanner]

they squish the pipe flat in circumstances like this usually

 

[LegionellaSlave]

Check out this storm drain.......

Storm Drain Explosion - YouTube

 

[Dannypipe]

Christ. Who on earth designed that? Not good.