Escape of water in my house

[Gary1140]

Hi everyone and thanks for looking at my post.  I'm a newb here, not even sure if i'm in the right place!

I had a recent 'escape of water' issue, following the installation of a new boiler in September.  I had two escapes of water, first one on the hot connection to kitchen sink tap just after the boiler was up and running.  The boiler is a condensing combi and so the hot water is now running at mains pressure at around 1 to 2 barg.  The connection to the tap was plastic speedfit pipe to copper olive and nut onto hose tail to tap.  The push in insert in the plastic pipe (the wrong type, it had o'rings on it) came out of the plastic pipe, big leak.  Contained the water to the kitchen, moped up dehumidifier on, pretty dry by next day.

The second 'escape of water' was five days later from the cold side of the same tap, same issue.  I had asked the plumber to use copper pipe where it meets the hose tail on the tap after the first leak but he said no need to on the cold side as the pressure hadn't changed.  I should have insisted that he changed both to copper.  The second escape of water was more serious, it was discovered at 1am in the morning and had affected the whole ground floor, mostly carpeted except for the kitchen.  When discovered, the water could be seen in puddles in the carpet, not even over the top of the carpet and elsewhere could be felt under foot.  Rang the insurance, a drying company came out and supplied one dehumidifier, big thing, shifted a lot of water.  Had the tiles tested underneath the carpet which contain 3% asbestos, not a problem, they are being encapsulated.  i would have removed the carpet myself but that, in the circumstances I think would have been frowned upon by the insurance.  We are a month in, with no additional drying equipment to dry the walls, which have been affected and are in places 50% damp reading 15cm or so above the floor.

Questions are:-

How long will the walls take to dry out?  They are brick with render over and gypsum plastered, house built in 1967.  Current worse case moisture readings 56% ish here and there.

Do i need to take skirtings and plaster off up to the level of an acceptable moisture reading?  If i do this how long will the now bare brick take to dry with appropriate drying equipment?

what sort of drying equipment should the drying firm supply?

I would like to think I could be recarpeted by Christmas but I'm not sure that's going to happen.

Your comments would be much appreciated.

 

Regards

 

Gary

[dpmiller]

29 minutes ago, Gary1140 said:

The connection to the tap was plastic speedfit pipe to copper olive and nut onto hose tail to tap.  The push in insert in the plastic pipe (the wrong type, it had o'rings on it) came out of the plastic pipe

how could the insert come out if the nut was tight on the olive?