Save your geyser – Planned water outages

Leaving your geyser on during the planned water outage this weekend will not be a good idea.

This is according to plumber, Eugene Foster. He said leaving your geyser on will be the same as switching an empty kettle on. “If there is no water in the kettle and you switch it on, the element will obviously burn.” With this said, Foster said because there will be no water supply in the geyser during the outage, the element of the geyser will be running without water, which will increase the chances of having a burst geyser. To avoid having a burst geyser, Foster advises residents to switch off their geyser at the trip switch on the circuit breaker. “You can switch the geyser back on once the water supply is fully restored,” concluded Foster.