Well a deep breath. Initially he replaced the pump which was full of sludge and they are quite a bit smaller than they used to be. That was successful. Then he said the buggers they haven't installed it properly. The flu has collapsed in the middle and they are not mixing properly and the condensate pipes are full of sludge. He was with me quite a while and was very apologetic. He rang the gas co and they will be sending someone out on Friday between 8am-5pm. They can't give a more accurate time apparently. The whole system needs flushing out. V engineer says I don't think this has been right from day one of the installation your pipes should not be full of sludge and also after checks said the boiler was dangerous and switched it all off again. Still no heating. I'm off to make a cup of tea.
Flipping heck Rebecca. That is a tale and a half. If the boiler is dangerous how is it they are not replacing it or is it just that, because of the sludge build, up it's not functioning correctly and therefore could be dangerous? I remember having my system flushed out when my new boiler was installed and the water was disgustingly black as it drained off down the drive. I was glad to get all of that muck out of the pipes.
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Afties all - lovely to see Kitty and MU on here yesterday / today. Hope progress is being made at Rebecca's...
I'm feeling a bit down. 95% sure that I've lost a rose to honey fungus - which is not good news in a garden full of roses, viburnums and crab apples. Spent yesterday morning digging it and the roots out (no joke with a mature rose) and today I've been removing some of the soil round and about (not sure where that's going though).
No idea what I'm going to replace the rose with. A hydrangea would look good but they're also very susceptible to HF.
Having horrible moments of imagining everything in the garden succumbing. No idea how it got in and have a nasty suspicion it might just be in the soil slowly attacking my other treasures..
Sorry to be so downbeat. Other people are facing much worse problems - but it's very disheartening when you put time and effort into trying to make something of a previously unloved space.
Heaven is ... sitting in the garden with a G&T and a cat while watching the sun go down
...snuckering... Some progress - but not much - at Rebecca's then. Sorry to hear that R. We certainly had the whole system flushed (seemed to take hours) when we had a new boiler put in 7 years ago. As LB said - the stuff that came out was pretty disgusting.
Heaven is ... sitting in the garden with a G&T and a cat while watching the sun go down
Oh T'Bird. That sounds horrendous. How did you detect it? Did you find all the 'bootlaces' in the soil? Fingers crossed it isn't HF. Are you an RHS member? I think you can send stuff off to them for analysis.
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LB - I'm hoping I've caught it before the bootlaces and fruiting bodies appear. The rose looked really poorly all summer but I was sort of hoping that might be down to 2 years of drought.
When I was gardening on Sunday I spotted some bracket fungi on some of the branches (which probably means they had died) so started to investigate further. When I got down to the crown and roots I found white mycelium under the bark and through the roots - which is usually one of the signs of HF.
I suppose it's possible it's one of the other fungi which can cause root rot and mature plant death - but I'm treating it as HF and trying to clean up the whole area.
I'll be having sleepless nights every time a plant looks off-colour from now on...
Heaven is ... sitting in the garden with a G&T and a cat while watching the sun go down
LB I bet you were. At least they did yours properly. It must have been quite smelly. They cut corners with mine. Topbird sorry to hear youre down. Its always sad when you nurture a plant and ... I hope you'll have a small glass of something and hope there are some healthier results.
Off to the pharmacy in a mo - doctor rang me, swab came back, clarithromycin isn't the best thing to treat my skin - apparently just ordinary penicillin will work so an electronic prescription has been sent to the pharmacy!
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I'm feeling a bit down. 95% sure that I've lost a rose to honey fungus - which is not good news in a garden full of roses, viburnums and crab apples. Spent yesterday morning digging it and the roots out (no joke with a mature rose) and today I've been removing some of the soil round and about (not sure where that's going though).
No idea what I'm going to replace the rose with. A hydrangea would look good but they're also very susceptible to HF.
Having horrible moments of imagining everything in the garden succumbing. No idea how it got in and have a nasty suspicion it might just be in the soil slowly attacking my other treasures..
Sorry to be so downbeat. Other people are facing much worse problems - but it's very disheartening when you put time and effort into trying to make something of a previously unloved space.
Some progress - but not much - at Rebecca's then. Sorry to hear that R. We certainly had the whole system flushed (seemed to take hours) when we had a new boiler put in 7 years ago. As LB said - the stuff that came out was pretty disgusting.
When I was gardening on Sunday I spotted some bracket fungi on some of the branches (which probably means they had died) so started to investigate further. When I got down to the crown and roots I found white mycelium under the bark and through the roots - which is usually one of the signs of HF.
I suppose it's possible it's one of the other fungi which can cause root rot and mature plant death - but I'm treating it as HF and trying to clean up the whole area.
I'll be having sleepless nights every time a plant looks off-colour from now on...