@Dovefromabove I feel your pain!! When we moved in a couple of years ago we replaced the old oil boiler with a new one but unfortunately it was fitted badly. The first winter it just kept breaking down, the pump kept seizing up. We had one electric heater we would all huddle around every night as a family, wasn't at all fun!!
My boiler died a few weeks back and had to be replaced. The house got slowly colder and colder over a week - but not quite as bad as when I was a kid and we used to get that hoary fern shaped frost on the inside of the windows - got down to about 12 degrees. So no more than a jumper's worth.....
I’m probably just catastrophising @Latimer ... the repair man will probably fix it with two shakes of a lamb’s tail or whatever ... and I was brought up in a draughty old timber-framed farmhouse with just an elderly cooking range to huddle around and hurricanes whistling around the doors as they weren’t as big as the door frames ... I can cope without central heating .... 🥶 😂
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Thanks for the welcome. I was around a little last year but didn't post much. Loving the garden even more this year and it's definitely giving me something to keep me occupied. At the minute I've got all my seeds sown and on some old metal shelving in the kitchen. I 'borrowed' them from my hubby out the shed, think he felt sorry for me as he actually went and got them out not long after I'd asked even though the shed is now even messier than before. Oops! Missing the sunshine already but hopefully it'll be back before long!
Morning all, glad you are finely on the mend Hosta. Dont know about as a kid Steve Tu, our last house we didn't have heating till the late 2000s, then not everywhere we had a Baxi back boiler, it wouln't take rads everywhere, and we couldnt afford a new boiler. It would have been a huge problem anyway, getting the condensing pipe from the lounge to outside. The house before, same gas fire back boiler, we used to get ice on the south facing bedroom windows, then it melted and ruined the windowcills, so Hubby drilled holes at an angle to drain it away. I wore a kids fleecy sleep suit with feet in bed. When we moved here couldnt get the part for the Potterton which was 25 years old.
@Dovefromabove haha, well I had the good fortune of being brought up a bit too soft and don't get me started on my kids!! They think should be able to swan around the house like they were on a beach in the Bahamas all 12 months of the year. 😊
I did get a bit of the "4 Yorkshiremen" vibe from your reply though......."Luxury!!" 😀😀
Morning all, hello @PlantyPru! Chilly and grey here as well. Off to the SM soon for weekly shop, not sure what the rest of the day will bring after that. Not the right time to have boiler trouble Dove with a cold snap coming at the weekend.
Oooh a cup of tea and bacon sandwich sound amazing!
Help yourself ... they’re always available here @PlantyPru ... and 🍰 in the afternoon, and then the occasional 🍷 or 🥂 if the occasion demands 😉 and 🥃 or 🍺 on medical grounds prescribed by @punkdoc 😉
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I did get a bit of the "4 Yorkshiremen" vibe from your reply though......."Luxury!!" 😀😀
and 🥃 or 🍺 on medical grounds prescribed by @punkdoc 😉
Gardening in Central Norfolk on improved gritty moraine over chalk ... free-draining.
Gardening in Central Norfolk on improved gritty moraine over chalk ... free-draining.