Bar Restaurant Flooded-Out. Graham to the Rescue!

Happy Sweepers, After Their Shop has flooded.

Flexible hoses don't use them they can burts at any time.

A marvelous Louis Quinze set of drawers.

Wednesday 30th October

Hi,

Arrived at the bar this morning and shock, horror, probe; there was water creeping out of the front door. I unlocked the door and rushed in to find that one of those silly metal reinforced rubber hoses that are use in bars and houses to connect the mains supply to the taps had burst in the night and the floor was about 1cm deep in water. In the UK plumbers use copper pipe everywhere and the only place you’ll ever find rubber-piping carrying pressurized water is on a washing machine or dishwasher. In a bar or in a house you should always turn off the stop-cocks located behind your washing machine whenever you go away, but of course then you have to remember to turn them on again next time you use the machine.

One of the customers in my bar had a rubber connecting hose burst in her bathroom, whilst she was away from her home in Estepona and you can imagine the damage that a burst hose had done to her home over a period of a week or so. A lot of her furniture including some wonderful Louis Qinze pieces, so once again this serves as a reminder that we should always cut-off the water before we go away. Fortunately a neighbour reported it to Olivia in our bar and we were able to contact the lady, so that she could get a plumber in to deal with the problem.

A few years ago in my bar restaurant, I was in the habit of turning off the water each night at the stop-cock before I went home, but recently I have been more complacent about taking such precautions than I should be, so I landed myself with an extra hours work in the bar mopping the water up. Most bars in Spain have good quality ceramic tiled floors throughout, so a flooded bar is not the nightmare that it would be if it were in the UK, where wall-to-wall carpet is the norm.

Actually in a Spanish bar restaurant, flooding is not a big problem as long as you deal with it within a few hours. What I actually did to get my bar ready for opening today was, open all the doors and windows and then sweep the water out the doors into the street and then finish off by pulling all the big equipment away from the walls and mopping behind it. With the sun shining and a nice breeze flowing through the place was pretty well dried out within an hour, so all’s well that ends well, as now into the bargain we have the cleanest bar for miles around .

Tomorrow the bar will be left in the hands of Eli, as I’m off to Malaga to see a neurosurgeon about my lumber pain. We are hoping that when we’ve finished at the Hospital Civil Unidad de Dolor, we will be able to meet Ildefonso for breakfast in Malaga City (He’s the architect who handled the project for completely modernizing our bar and getting our new restaurant Opening License). He’s a really great guy and if you need any construction work done medium to large projects, just contact me and I’ll pass on his details to you.

Cheers

Graham

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