14 December (Part 1) - State of Play
Bitter
experience suggests that after
four days without heating the internal
temperature drops to 6·5 C and stabilises. I suppose it must slowly fall further
but it was still at 6·5 this morning, Day 5.
At 09:55 this morning after one minor snag, the final wire was reconnected and the
new boiler fired up but despite all radiators being very hot the temperature at 13:30 has only
risen eight degrees. There is a lot of warming up to do.
There’s not been a word from the maintenance company who fitted the new valve
and made a total mess of the electrics since I notified them of their failures last Saturday. I
may blacken their name here if they continue to ignore me but for now I have
changed the wrongly fitted valve and ripped out all the barely accessible (since
the house was built in 1987) wiring and replaced it with something easy to inspect and maintain.
Meanwhile spare a thought for those who really can’t afford to heat their homes.
Metal cutlery can be painful to hold when it comes out of the drawer at six
degrees Centigrade and toothpaste is reluctant to be squeezed from its tube.
Back to normal BiB reporting very soon.
Note: Thinking up snappy titles for blogs has often been difficult but adopting film titles since reporting on Councillor Craske’s
Story House cinema a week ago
has introduced a bit more fun into the procedure. Can it be kept up until his three screens are belatedly opened? I have my doubts.