If a pipe burst in your apartment at the height of the heating season, do not panic. There is an opportunity to fix everything yourself, without flooding yourself and your neighbors. The main thing is to take note of a few tips, using which, you can avoid unpleasant consequences.
It is necessary to prepare for the heating season in advance. If your apartment is heated by a central heating system, you can embed special taps on each battery. This action will help to avoid undesirable consequences in case the battery bursts.
If you did not think in advance that such an incident could happen in the heating season, but it still happened, you need to know how you can solve the problem yourself. It is possible to use several methods, but first of all it is necessary to call the emergency service. Until the experts have arrived and resolved the problem, decisive action must be taken.
First way
At the place where the pipe burst, it is necessary to attach a piece of rubber of the appropriate size and press it with a clamp. In this case, in the house (apartment) you need to have a couple of three clamps of different diameters. Next, "patch" should be pulled by a tourniquet. When all this is done, you don’t have to worry that your neighbors will come running with screams and discontent. You didn’t let the flood happen. Now we can only wait for the emergency service to arrive and replace the battery with a new one.
