central heating - shmentral heating
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percivalwell, we have been without central heating and hot running water for a week now. It started last Thursday, when we noticed that the heating wouldn't go on. The plumber came yesterday, and exchanged a blown fuse and a broken pump. Still no joy - the pipes are blocked. Apparently, the flat's owners over the years conveniently forgot to have the pipes flushed. This is the second new pump in two years, folks. The plumber doesn't have time to flush the pipes until November time. All they are doing right now are "emergency jobs", you see. Oh, and folks - don't leave the boiler running over the summer or all day long, just because you want hot water on tap whenever you fancy it. Bad for the boilers, apparently.
So, no half day at The Company to eat up work time. Just two hectic hours of supervision, e-mails, lunch, before I had to head over to Queen Margaret to prepare my lecture.
Well, it's up to our landlady now. She needs to find a plumber that will see to the pipes in the flat asap. Luckily I'm flexible enough to work from home :(
Although I would appreciate a NICE HOT LONG BATH ...
So, no half day at The Company to eat up work time. Just two hectic hours of supervision, e-mails, lunch, before I had to head over to Queen Margaret to prepare my lecture.
Well, it's up to our landlady now. She needs to find a plumber that will see to the pipes in the flat asap. Luckily I'm flexible enough to work from home :(
Although I would appreciate a NICE HOT LONG BATH ...
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Date: 2003-10-09 03:41 am (UTC)...looks worriedly at own central heating system...
I hope it's sorted out soon, for you, though :-(
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Date: 2003-10-09 04:07 am (UTC)Hope you manage to get your landlady motivated a.s.a.p.
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Date: 2003-10-09 06:06 am (UTC)I feel for you. When I was in Glasgow, it was the coldest winter in donkey years. We were feeding the hungry heater with plenty of £5 electricity cards with seemingly little effect. I lived in bed with the covers thrown partially over the wall heater, and a flask of hot lemon and ginger tea and a box of Boasters chocolate chip and hazelnut biscuits by my bedside because the kitchen was just too cold to cook in comfortably.
And then the pipes in our building burst when it was about ... oh ... minus ten outside. Considering that I had got to the stage of using hot water showers to keep warm (why oh why doesn't Scotland have more double glazing?!)... well, I was less than thrilled, but thank God they got it fixed pretty quickly.
I wish you the same speed of return to normalcy.
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Date: 2003-10-09 08:38 am (UTC)no subject
Date: 2003-10-09 04:22 pm (UTC)