Bonn - The chill of recent days caused in Bonn and the surrounding area for hundreds of water pipes, mainly in private households.
For many of the previously frozen pipes, but the damage is only now visible.
In Küpper and Sons, one of the largest installers of the city, there is currently very busy.
"There are a lot more broken pipes as usual. But in the last week we had to move out about 50 operations, "said Hartmut Weispfennig by Küpper-sales service. "Our emergency service was up to three hours around the clock."
The Deputy Director of the Bonner fire, ten cars Schneider, reported a "significant increase in the stakes."
Mainly in vacant or unused buildings and in the basements of houses inhabited burst water meters or equal to all the tubes.
"Areas with water pipes should be protected from freezing temperatures. To ask the radiators in unused rooms at least frost-free ", recommends that the military man.
Also in the SWB one is at least indirectly affected by the frost. While breaking no management of the public network, "but we were already home to 70 missions on water installations, such as burst water clocks, called," said spokesman Werner SWB shui.
What damage it can cause a ruptured water clock showed in Siegburg: Yesterday was the basement, where the former restaurant "on the skids" one meter under water. It was triggered by a ruptured water clock from the 60 cubic meters of water escaped.
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