Sunday, January 06, 2008
Boiler crisis averted. Temporarily.
The problem was with the fan, which had seized up. A couple of squirts of miracle product WD-40, and a flick of the finger, and the fan sprang into life. Hot water ahoy! Eighty quid, thank you Sir. (Not that I begrudge Engineer Guy his call out fee. If I had had the wherewithal to fix it myself, I would have done so, wouldn't I?)
Unfortunately, we still need to do something about a new boiler, sooner rather later. At present we have a Glow Worm Space Saver F, which is 15 years old which is, apparently, an eternity in the lifetime of boiler technology. Engineer Guy said the problem would occur again, possibly within weeks or months, and that the the best thing to do would be to replace the fan completely or get a new boiler installed. When he checked with regard to obtaining a new fan, he found that the exact part was coming up as 'obsolete'. Not good. However, there is a possibility that another part for the later generation of Glow Worm boilers could be found that would work just as well. He is going check when the manufacturers open and will ring us tomorrow.
Pain in the arse!
Still, it has concentrated the mind. Lorraine is now full of lofty ideas of getting solar panels put on the roof and getting the whole of our central heating system changed to utilise them. The blurb on one website we looked at says that we could "reduce your heating bills by 50% to 70%".
Great! I am all for utilising renewable energy sources. Bring it on, big time. My problem is with the fact that at the moment we have NO FUCKING MONEY! (It's all relative, of course. We are not broke. There are a lot of people worse off than us, and if we were forced to find the money, we certainly could. It's just that I don't want to go spending a lot of money at the moment. Have I mentioned that the credit card bill including the cost of the new TV has just arrived? Eeek!)
Life. It's great, isn't it?
Last night we took my Niece and Nephew to see the pantomime "Aladdin" at the Birmingham Hippodrome, starring John Barrowman. I will write about that tomorrow.
The problem was with the fan, which had seized up. A couple of squirts of miracle product WD-40, and a flick of the finger, and the fan sprang into life. Hot water ahoy! Eighty quid, thank you Sir. (Not that I begrudge Engineer Guy his call out fee. If I had had the wherewithal to fix it myself, I would have done so, wouldn't I?)
Unfortunately, we still need to do something about a new boiler, sooner rather later. At present we have a Glow Worm Space Saver F, which is 15 years old which is, apparently, an eternity in the lifetime of boiler technology. Engineer Guy said the problem would occur again, possibly within weeks or months, and that the the best thing to do would be to replace the fan completely or get a new boiler installed. When he checked with regard to obtaining a new fan, he found that the exact part was coming up as 'obsolete'. Not good. However, there is a possibility that another part for the later generation of Glow Worm boilers could be found that would work just as well. He is going check when the manufacturers open and will ring us tomorrow.
Pain in the arse!
Still, it has concentrated the mind. Lorraine is now full of lofty ideas of getting solar panels put on the roof and getting the whole of our central heating system changed to utilise them. The blurb on one website we looked at says that we could "reduce your heating bills by 50% to 70%".
Great! I am all for utilising renewable energy sources. Bring it on, big time. My problem is with the fact that at the moment we have NO FUCKING MONEY! (It's all relative, of course. We are not broke. There are a lot of people worse off than us, and if we were forced to find the money, we certainly could. It's just that I don't want to go spending a lot of money at the moment. Have I mentioned that the credit card bill including the cost of the new TV has just arrived? Eeek!)
Life. It's great, isn't it?
Last night we took my Niece and Nephew to see the pantomime "Aladdin" at the Birmingham Hippodrome, starring John Barrowman. I will write about that tomorrow.
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Erk. What a crap time for something like that to go wrong.
On the bright side, a new boiler would probly save you money in effeciency and a combi/on demand system (if it's not already one of those) would pay for itself really quickly. I think we're going down that path too, before the bastard breaks, hopefully.
Bugger.
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On the bright side, a new boiler would probly save you money in effeciency and a combi/on demand system (if it's not already one of those) would pay for itself really quickly. I think we're going down that path too, before the bastard breaks, hopefully.
Bugger.
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