In article , jerrybuilt Author-Address-Header@[127.1]> writes
> >Called out by wife's tenants "There's water coming down inside
> >the house and water coming down outside the house". Advised
> >turning off stopcock and on taps. Situation remedied. Went
> >to see them with plumbing kit. "Oh! Our hot water got very
> >smelly a couple of weeks ago. We noticed while we were
> >cleaning our teeth.". Went up in loft to look (big hole in
> >ceiling next to hatch where tenant had gone up to look &
> >put his foot through. Grrr.)
> >
> >What was the trouble??
>
> The *remedy* seems to be to change
> your tenants and/or to fit a lock to
> the attic access hatch so that the (next)
> morons can neither put rubbish
> on the storage tank nor put a foot through
> the ceiling when they're
> checking what's happened...
Or get a combi.