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Interesting times round these parts on Tuesday.
Was riding along the hills on the way back from dropping the van off at the garage.
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Bit of a fright. Looking down on the common and thinking...
"oh, someone has a big bonfire going. Hmmmm, that's v close to home. That's not a bonfire either. Eeek"
Hurst Farm is a few hundred years old. Quite a grand old house. Now just a shell. Fortunately no one harmed.
Chinese whispers suggest that it was started by a drill battery being charged and going fizz. No idea what brand. Not helped by there being a load of construction timber inside the house at the time. It went up v well.
I think they had 6 or 7 tenders there at one point and two bowsers. They were there in numbers for nearly 8 hours, and left one tender watching over the ruins for 24 hours.
Rather unexpected knock on effect: with all the pressure dropping out of our mains water pipe to feed the tenders/bowsers, our mains supply pipe (fragile bugger at the best of times) has disintegrated so we have no water here this morning while they fix that.
I will continue to charge all my non-computer/phone/Makita Li-ion batteries in a tool box in the yard, on the end of an extension lead. Never in the house, garage, or bike shed.
Made me check my insurance when I got home too. 😳
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[url= http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-scotland-glasgow-west-26574184 ]Also - wood burning stoves![/url]
Well, almost. Turkish dude who lived in one of the flats in the converted house on the seafront took it upon himself to install his own, which wasn't actually a woodburner, but a chiminea in the fireplace.
That's over 18 months ago, all families still out of their homes. God knows how long the insurance will take to get that sorted out.
Chinese whispers suggest that it was started by a drill battery being charged and going fizz
I have a black and decker with NiMH batteries. One of them developed some kind of a fault which resulted in a little curl of smoke coming out of the charger. Glad I noticed it, being in the garage surrounded by oily things.
I saw that from my bike on the hills - it was still smoking well at 6ish.
- you bunch of xenophobes 😉 they may have been british batteriesChinese whispers
Just out of interest what is the insurance policy situation if a non uk-retail bike light battery set takes the house down 😕