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Yorkshire landlord fuming after burst water pipe causes £10,000 of damage to house

2025-08-28 2,759 Dailymotion

A landlord has been left fuming after a water pipe exploded causing £10,000 worth of damage to his property.

Gary Gerrard's three-bedroom terraced house suffered huge damage after it was sprayed for over an hour and a half by water from a burst mains water pipe.

The explosion was so powerful that part of the road went through the front bedroom window and water seeped through the roof tiles into the house.

The 58-year-old, from Wakefield, Yorks., said every room of the property in Crigglestone, in Wakefield, was damaged apart from the kitchen, upstairs bathroom, and one bedroom which all sit at the back of the property.