Similar thing happened to me this week EFFT although no electrical wiring was nearby.  The builder ripped out a kitchen cupboard and found one of my pipes had been leaking for God knows how long and rotted the underneath of the cupboards and floor.  It was a right mess.

Wow, hope it's not too horrendous to fix, Ells.

 

Our boards are just wet, not rotted thankfully. Also it was just a small patch around the leaking pipe and is all boarded in. So now the leak is mended the boards should dry out OK and all is right with the world again.

Fluffs we had that happen a couple of weeks ago.. Mr C was in the bath and the waste pipe came off, water peeing down the light fitting downstairs.

Eek, the light fitting....BOOM!

Luckily it was during the day so nothing was switched on.

Some friends of mine discovered that they had a similar problem roughly 8 years after moving into their home   It is thought it was going on before they moved in and was not picked up by the surveyor.  The upheaveal is, I think, finished now about 2 years later.  It was just a small leak from the main stopcock under the sink but as it was undiscovered for so long all the joists were rotting and the whole of the ground floor has had to be replaced, new kitchen you name it.  They are going to move now as soon as they can sell, don't blame 'em they want shut of the place.

I was working in a care homes several years ago and water started pouring from the light fitting in the lounge.

We ran upstairs into the bedroom to find one of the residents squatting down and having a pee

Sounds like the nick of time Fluffs.

 

Sis had water from an upstair shower running down the downstairs downlighters in a new home. Bett - shocking builders.

 

Didn't know it could cause an explosion though.

When I bought my house, I was required by the building society to get the house rewired. It's just as well I did as the electrician discovered that the wiring for the extension at the back of the house hadn't been earthed properly I or anyone else in that house could have been electocuted.

 

El loro, the year after we moved on here the electric box on the outside of the house set on fire so badly it actually melted down the wall. Anyway it turned out when the house was built there was no earth attached to the metre.

Uncontrolled water, electricity and gas in close proximity - and you have a recipe for a potential disaster.