It’s Kaputed
223 ViewsI was brave this week and purchased a fill of heating oil, thinking… it’ll do nicely as a back up when I can’t be bothered to light the wee stove that I intend to buy in a couple of months while visiting the part of England that does cheapo stoves. So, after waiting in ALL DAY (the office told me he’d be here first thing this morning) the delivery man finally arrived at 5:30pm and filled the tank. I pushed the button to give the boiler a feed of the good stuff it’s been longing for and after five minutes of constipated screeching…. nada ziggily squilch not even a puff of smoke.
My neighbour just happens to be an early retired heating engineer and kindly informed me that it’s kaput. Less than a year old and it’s useless. They just don’t make things like they used to. I’ve had to call the man who installed it and talk softly to his lovely answering machine. I hate answering machines. It’s always an excuse for them NOT to have received your message and be a no show until the warranty has expired (next month) and the whole thing ends up costing money that it shouldn’t.
I’m going to drink some wine for me blood pressure…
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and wine is good for blood pressue?
This might come in handy http://www.opsi.gov.uk/acts/acts1994/Ukpga_19940035_en_1.htm
Why thank you… I shall print it and wave it frantically at all men responsible. Apparently now it’s somehow my fault for not having used the boiler for 6 months in protest at the price of oil.
wine is good for everything…. in moderation of course children!
It can’t be that kaput! Canae ye fix the damn thing? One small part er twa? Retired early for good cause I must say.
Me thinks I could fix the bastard if I wuz there!
The retired neighbour wasn’t responsible for the installation … and which do you propose to fix? the boiler or the man who installed it? Sounds like fightin’ talk to me…
wHAT’S THE BRAND NAME AND MODEL NUMBER. i’LL FIX IT FROM HERE!
There’s no need to shout I’m not REALLY deaf ya know….
I’m sorry but as a plumber and central heating engineer I have to agree with your installer… people turn off their central heating boilers/pumps for months on end during the long hot summers and expect them to start up again at the flick of a switch when the cold winds blow in from the arctic north. Its not like that, you have to keep pumps ticking over during the hot moneths as well to keep the sediment from settling on the bottom (lovely word bottom) of the pump and clogging up the works. ..
Heating engineer?? How long did you do that job for anyway? AND the installer hasn’t been to see it yet so how can you agree with him when he hasn’t given his valued and knowledgable opinion?
Funny that… the pump is working fine…. it’s the boiler that’s the problem. Of course the fact that they installed the thing in a corner that floods and the whole thing was likely under 6 inches of water during the summer deluges will have nothing to do with it… it’ll be totally my fault for not using it for 6 months even though it was fired occasionally during that period.
My log-in elswhere is in all capital letters. I wasn’t yelling.
Seriously, give me some particulars about your set-up and I believe that I can help from here.
I think that it’s shameful that the “mister-fix-its” of the world cannot, will not sit idly by when a woman living alone needs help, while an “engineer” (retired or not) will merely tell you what’s wrong with it, then mosey along until the jurisdiction is unravelled about who’s at fault.
I’ve paid off my holiday loan from my trip to Edinburgh in 2004. My credit limit’s been since upped a bit. Want I should come over and fix it?
I need photographs, the model numbers, and the telephone number to the local mechanical supply house.
I think that I can fix it before your installer even calls back.
Ah the age of chivalry isn’t dead after all …
Thanks for the offer but I think I can hold off for a few weeks since it isn’t quite brass monkey weather yet. I’ll be phoning the landlord’s office midweek if the installer still hasn’t showed up. It’s their purchase so they hold the warranty. I’m only responsible for annual servicing, not parts still under guarantee. My neighbour really doesn’t deserve the disdain. He was more than helpful.
I was considering (nothing definate yet) coming over to the Ulster motorbike racing at Dundrod on Monday & Tuesday but if I did somehow manage it, then maybe I could strap a few diagnostic tools to the side of the bike and if you were to buy me Lunch… perhaps we might be able to come to some arrangement. !
I refer you to your earlier comment
Yes .. Yes .. point taken… I’ve got this new cook book .. fancy a nibble ?