Hope her stop cock hasn’t been turned off as well. 
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It’s her endless chatter in almost incomprehensible Provençal that I would like to turn off. However she is endlessly helpful and nothing is too much trouble. Just got to keep crystal glasses out of reach.
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That does surprise me @David_Spardo 
Depends how old they are. If they have a blue line on them happy days, I think they are 20 bar. Otherwise they are the old pipes like mine and are rated at only six bar.
I’ve a long uphill run across a couple of neighbours land, and after a couple of leaks (reimbursed by Veolia I should add) fifteen years ago I built a massive tank under a patio so I could reduce the pressure to a " goutte à goutte" 4 bar feed into the tank and then use a pump for pressure to the house. So far so good
Actual Provençal or just an accent du midi? Many years ago when I was a small child many older varois spoke Provençal as a usual thing but it’s less and less the case nowadays.
She uses a mixture of Provençal and French words. Her French word pronunciation is very different to the french I learnt, while resident in Switzerland. Yes/Oui comes out more like “waaa” or like a duck quacking. She was born in the village as were her parents and grandparents.
Round here - those with pretentions say “way”.
It’s a young thing - like everyone on YouTube who thinks they have to speak “Essex”. It may of course be because they are wearing so much makeup they can’t move their cheeks or their mouths.
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Made me laugh that, there is someone on here who thinks I have a ‘thing’ about that, so pleased I am not alone. 
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Ah l’accent Suisse, may poss be a case of pot/kettle… She may well go home and have a good laugh about how you pronounce things 
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One of my late wife’s fellow students did her PhD on Occitan. My wife enjoyed gathering a lot of local info for her at the time.
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“it’s a young thing” I’ve been saying it for 45 years 
It’s the difference between “yes” and “yeah” IMO.
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The Occitan they speak here in SW24 doesn’t sound much like the Provençal I grew up hearing, and it is spelt differently too - I’m thinking it’s pretty much due to Frédéric Mistral that there’s any homogeny at all. (People around me also spoke Nissart and Corsican which are a whole other kettle of fish)
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My first thought was Wimbledon 
I think that’s right - at least the YouTube “learn French” videos that I watch seem to use it that way! 
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Small children in primary school are constantly told “on dit oui, pas ouais”. In comic strips the rougher characters say ouais.
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