Live Without Water?

[Cloverjo]

We’ve got a major leak problem in the house which will lead to us having no water for about 10 days while we get the place repiped.

Can we realistically live without water for that time, or should we move out for a while? I know we can buy bottled water, and I could have a shower at my dad’s house but we take on-tap water for granted. It sounds a bit tricky. Even cleaning your teeth or washing up a teaspoon needs thinking about before you do it.

Ok, First World problem, I know. People have to put up with a lot worse, but just wondering if it’s realistic to stay in the house while the work is going on.

[dannyk13]

Spath//Can we realistically live without water for that time,//
That is what the OP asked, and what I replied to.

[spathiphyllum]

You should have kept reading.

"I know we can buy bottled water, and I could have a shower at my dad’s house but we take on-tap water for granted."

Clover will have water to drink.

[spathiphyllum]

I do think you should find temp accommodation clover as it will be hard to live without a water source in the house.

[Sqad]

danny.

"We’ve got a major leak problem in the house which will lead to us having no water for about 10 days while we get the place repiped. "

Her first paragraph makes it clear what the thread is all about, I think.

[TonyV]

If you want to stay, I would buy one of the containers you see caravan owners using, that look like a garden lawn roller to keep water in and bucket of water to flush toilet and remember the adage " If its yellow let it mellow, if its brown flush it down" seen in camping site loo, during water shortage.

[10ClarionSt]

No. No. It's the wording; "live off of". No such term.

[Cloverjo]

I’d forgotten about flushing the loo. Not feasible really is it? The insurance company has offered to pay for us to stay somewhere else, so I think we’ll have to do that.
Thanks for your thoughts and comments everyone.

[spathiphyllum]

live, off and of are all words. It's not a term, it's a sentence.

[dannyk13]

Sqad. I appreciate that, I just answered the first paragraph of the post, but I am beginning to wish that I hadn't .

[Sqad]

danny...LOL....I know the feeling LOL.

[TonyV]

As for living without drinking side track water humans can survive 3 days without water and 3 weeks without water.

[-Talbot-]

Why would you need to be without water for 10 days?

[TonyV]

Something like this for water storage.

https://www.towsure.com/caravanning-equipment-and-motorhome-accessories/water/water-waste-carriers/water-carriers

[hc4361]

Clover, did you see my post about the standpipe? I have never known a standpipe not to be provided in these situations.

[TonyV]

Alternatively repair broken pipe with a compression fitting.

[ummmm]

I was without hot water for a few weeks and that was bad enough.

[KARL]

I know a couple who are "doing up" a property which as yet has no water supply or drainage (but it has electricity). They use a camping toilet and an automatic washing machine which they manually fill with water on its demand. They wash each other standing in the open on their land (the weather permits this) and get all their water from a groundwater spring. The water is tested and is potable. They spend some six months like this per year, the rest elsewhere in their own long-term accommodation. They say they enjoy the change and do not find it a hardship, just limiting and at that point a reminder of how to appreciate the other six months - but they are happy to return to this as they are constantly getting closer to the commissioning of a modern set-up in a beautiful location. I have seen this for myself and can easily see the attraction and that it is not much of a hardship.

If the insurer is offering convenient alternative accommodation for free then the choice looks totally different.

[KARL]

Off-of, a way of putting things that originates in the USA, likely the result of non-native English speakers in their heads doing a literal word-for-word translation from their own language. An example would be a native German speaker in whose own language it is "ab von" (actually off from but equates to off of as from and of are different meanings of von). Another Americanism now settled in European English is "Expiration" instead of expiry - also wrong until it took hold. An MP yesterday demonstrated a similar home grown aberration. I can't recall the precise sentence but it might have been something like "When they visited my husband and I...." The nonsense becomes obvious if you say "When they visited my husband and they (also) visited I.....". This is now very common and may be accepted English - we may be heading for pure Pidgin.

But all of this is off-subject (or is it now to be off of subject ?), sorry Cloverjo.

[Hopkirk]

If the insurance company are picking up the tab, then definitely move out. Treat it like a free holiday.