Baby it's cold inside

[ailbhe]

Woke up this morning and our boiler was broken, oo-ee, gonna be expensive...

It won't light, and the people who usually service it say that it's probably not broken but just a couple of months overdue a service. But they can't come until Wednesday, and it's freezing outside. It's still 18C in most of the house but only 10C in the bathroom.

We've all recently been ill with headcolds and chest infections.

So we've called all the emergency plumbers in the Yellow Pages until someone answered and went with the first one to pick up the phone without immediately putting us on hold. It's a bit alarming to see how fast the house loses heat, to be honest, though we've done all the grown-up things we don't usually do like closing doors and so on.

I need to go out and get the clothespegs off the line; letting them freeze to it isn't good for the plastic, which is wasteful. But first I have to go into town and buy things.

I hope it's not too busy.

Comments

brrrr!

[(Anonymous)]

So when are the emergency plumbers coming? Do you want to borrow a camping heater? (Safe for little ones as it doesn't get too hot.)

Alison

[hilarityallen.livejournal.com]

I hope it's sorted out soon! It's miserable without proper heating. I'm surprised your usual people can't come, especially as you have young children. I thought they had an obligation to service vulnerable users in 24hrs - or is it that now Emer's over two, you're insufficiently vulnerable?

[cat63.livejournal.com]

Have you checked the system pressure?

Sometimes all you need to do isrepressurise the system - we saved ourselves an expensive repair that way once.

Instructions on repressurising are here :- http://britishgas.boiler-systems.co.uk/repressurise-systems/

I've done it, and I'm the most cack-handed person imaginable, so it's really not hard.

In any case, I hope it gets fixed soon.

[ex-serenejo.livejournal.com]

Thanks loads for the earworm. ;-)

*hughug* Hope the day gets much better.