Dangerous? Water leaking from boiler, causing short circuit..

[easty]

I live in my dads council house just now, yesterday turned the boiler on took a shower and all the power went out. This morning, getting ready for work jump in the shower after turning on the boiler, electricity all goes out. I put 2 and 2 together looked at the boiler and saw there was water leaking out the bottom.

So as it's a council house I phone up the repairs number at 9:15 this morning and tell them what's happening, they agree that it's pretty serious and mark it as an emergency call, they tell me someone will come out sometime before 17:00 tommorrow. :confused:

Needless to say no-one came today (the girl on the phone said it might not be today but they probably would because it's an electricity fault). Wasted days holiday from work then.

I turned off the boiler this morning, so it's either no hot water/heating in the flat or just turn it on and let it short out the circuit board. What could happen other than it turning everything off?

[easty]

And they've litterally just come to the door......thank fluck.

[.Sean.]

Turn off the breaker the shower is connected to, it should be marked. If you've got a new-ish board the RCD will be tripping too so you'll need a sparky out to fix it.

Don't attempt to fix it if you're no sure what you're doing mate!