And the next problem...

[ffutures]

Got home this evening to find my hot water / central heating boiler giving a low pressure light. Let in some more water to put the pressure up, valve says it's OK but water isn't coming on. Had to go out to dentist and hope it was OK.

Got home at 5.45 and it wasn't.

Phoned central heating company, after faffing around with their phone system for five minutes or so got told I needed an insurers job number first, which is NOT what the policy document says.

Phoned the insurers, got a job number after faffing around with their phone system for five minutes or so.

Phoned central heating company. They've closed until the morning...

So no heat tonight, probably not until Thursday. Time to dress up warm.

BALLS!

Comments

[heliograph.livejournal.com]

Can't you just sleep with your snakes? They're warm blooded, right?

[ffutures.livejournal.com]

Do you want the five minute rant about what warm and cold blooded really means or the full half hour full of words like "poikilothermic?"

[heliograph.livejournal.com]

Which will keep you warmer?

[ffutures.livejournal.com]

Going to bed with two duvets.

[heliograph.livejournal.com]

http://www.theonion.com/content/node/43696

Rising Home-Heating Costs Hitting Reptile Families Hardest

December 21, 2005 | Issue 41•51

CHICAGO—With government figures indicating double-digit home-heating cost increases in coming months, America's reptilian citizens are warning that, unless swift measures are taken to provide them with adequate warmth, many will face serious metabolic crises this winter.

"Unlike our mammalian citizens, who maintain a consistent body temperature and have the option of throwing on a sweater, reptiles are entirely dependent on external heat sources," Sen. Richard Durbin (D-IL) said. "All my constituents are facing rate hikes of 21 percent or more. But some of them, like it or not, may be forced into a quasi-hibernative state if they do not receive emergency fuel-price relief."

There's more ;-)

[ffutures.livejournal.com]

Thanks!

[aisb23.livejournal.com]

How about the couple in Bristol that had the gas company come around at 3.30 AM to turn their gas back on?

http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/uk_news/england/bristol/somerset/4546196.stm

[ffutures.livejournal.com]

Bloody hell.

[queenortart.livejournal.com]

hot water bottles - you know they are your chums!

[ffutures.livejournal.com]

I remembered there's a couple of electric radiators in the attic - expensive to run but hopefully it'll only be for a day or two.

[pauldrye.livejournal.com]

The same thing happened to me as a teenager while my parents were away on holiday (in Barbados! Bastards!) In Canada, in February. The electric fan/heater saved my life, since I moved into one room on an upper floor and ran it in there with the door closed. It got pretty darned frosty in the rest of the house, let-me-tell-you.

[armb.livejournal.com]

The central heating pump in our house failed soon after we bought the house. But we didn't realise immediately and spent a few days saying "I knew the underfloor heating doesn't respond quickly, but this is ridiculous, the house is getting colder and colder". Then a few days phoning plumbers who said "we couldn't possibly do anything before the New Year" and/or "we wouldn't do anything that far out of town" and/or "we wouldn't touch underfloor heating".
Eventually we found someone who could source a suitable pump in a reasonableish time (at least an almost suitable one - we've just (4 years later) been told it should really have been a bronze one, not steel).
We installed a wood burning stove while waiting for it to arrive.

[ffutures.livejournal.com]

The latest is that they can get someone to me on Friday. Not happy.