Last night at about 8.00pm the wife said she could hear water running in the Kitchen. On investigation it sounded just like water building up and then tumbling down the wall somewhere? Took me about fifteen minutes to discover that the sound was coming from the area of a false wall next to the cooker hood. I couldn't understand this as I built the house and know that the pipework is nowhere near the source of the noise. At a loss to what the noise was I decided to dismantle the cooker hood. Of course I couldn't get near the securing screws as they were hidden by the Coving. Before ripping out the coving I decided to take out the fan unit to see if I could see anything. Looking up the flue --- Nothing amiss. No choice now but to rip out the coving. Coving removed and gaining access to the screws allowed me to get the stainless extractor hood off. NOTHING ! All I could see was a small hole where the wires for the hood came through the false wall. Noise had stopped now but I had to find out what the hell was going on. OK out with the pad saw and opened the hole in the Plasterboard so i could see inside with a torch. Looking down between the cavity I saw It. A bloody bird!!. To get it out I had to take out one of the Kitchen Base units and cut another hole in the wall at floor level. Bird finally extracted after much advise from the wife behind the closed glass Kitchen door. Two hour's later looked like a bomb had exploded in the Kitchen. Now I have to put It all back together. Bloody Birds. For the life of me I can't find out how it got there.----- YET.

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Impressive - how did you manage to cut a hole the shape of a bird?


I have every sympathy really - it wasn't that long ago that one flew down my chimney and drove me mad with it's fluttering - til my mate came along and pulled out the gas fire to let it out. Didn't cause any damage - except where I nearly went over backwards when the damn thing flew out

Good grief. Hope the bird is OK?

As Faze says don't they make a noise - I had one down in the chimney in my Soton house and had to get Bg in to remove the gas fire to get it out and the blasted gasman said the fire was actually unsafe and I had to get a new one! Well I was mad at the time but of course that bird did me a favour really!

I was concerned about a noise in the kitchen that sounded like something dripping the other night. Didn't matter where I stood in the kitchen, it seemed to be coming from somewhere else. Maybe it was the fridge defrosting itself? Nope. Freezer? Washing machine? Dishwasher? Taps? I even went upstairs to see if there was anything dripping through the ceiling in the spare room above the kitchen.

Eventually tracked it down (or up) to the fluorescent light fitting - there was an insect inside the diffuser! Must have died now as the sound has stopped!

We had a gap in the roof at the edge of the tiles where starings used to get in and nest - apart from the mess in the loft it wasn't a major problem except that every year one of the baby birds would fall down inside the cavity wall - no way of getting it out so we had to listen to the poor thing cheeping till it either managed to get out or died!!! Every year we said 'must block that hole' but every year we were too late! Till last year - no more problem now.

Well not with birds anyway. The other day our lodger went to get his bread out of the kitchen cupboard and when he opened the bag there was a mouse sat ther looking at him! The cats must have brought it in, it escaped under the cupboard and got in via the hole where the flex comes through for the freezer - another hole to block up!

We had a squirrel that managed to get into our loft space but once I had figured out how it was getting in I snapped off the branch it was using as a a launch pad and that was the problem solved.

On the subject of water I fitted a new shower at my place today. I know burger all about plumbing or electrikery but I thought that as I was swapping one shower for another it would be easy. I turned off what I thought were all the stop cocks but when I disconnected the shower loads of ice cold water blasted all over me and my bathroom!
Before I could stop the water I was soaked and there was water over the floor,walls and it had even sprayed the ceiling! The new shower works ok but I was a bit pissed off to discover that the only thing wrong withe the old one was a furred up shower head. I only replaced it a month or so back!

We had a pigeon come down the chimney behind the gas fire at our old place managed to get it out but covered the whole of the room with soot