AVFCDAN Posted January 18, 2016 Share Posted January 18, 2016 "It was the blurst of times!!" 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ginko Posted January 18, 2016 Share Posted January 18, 2016 5 hours ago, Michelsen said: Interesting. Wierdly, I like - admire, even - some of his works a lot but sometimes feel I could have written them better myself. Just promise to employ a proofreader, yeah? 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Stevo985 Posted January 18, 2016 Author VT Supporter Share Posted January 18, 2016 Got my boiler fixed. Properly! My radiators are actually hot, rather than their usual lukewarm temperature. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
limpid Posted January 18, 2016 Administrator Share Posted January 18, 2016 32 minutes ago, Stevo985 said: Got my boiler fixed. Properly! My radiators are actually hot, rather than their usual lukewarm temperature. When did you last have it serviced? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Genie Posted January 18, 2016 Share Posted January 18, 2016 21 minutes ago, limpid said: When did you last have it serviced? Mine is so old I'm scared to get it serviced incase it disturbs something and breaks it! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
limpid Posted January 18, 2016 Administrator Share Posted January 18, 2016 Just now, Genie said: Mine is so old I'm scared to get it serviced incase it disturbs something and breaks it! It's one of those things that you really should get serviced regularly. If you don't, at least make sure you have a CO alarm in the house. I'd rather it failed when there was an engineer right there to fix it 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Xela Posted January 18, 2016 Share Posted January 18, 2016 First day back in the office after working from home for ten days with tendonitis. Foot is now throbbing again and I'm smacked up to the eyeballs on opiate based painkillers Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Popular Post tonyh29 Posted January 18, 2016 Popular Post Share Posted January 18, 2016 (edited) 3 minutes ago, Xela said: First day back in the office after working from home for ten days with tendonitis. Foot is now throbbing again and I'm smacked up to the eyeballs on opiate based painkillers You work in banking , So is everyone else in your office tbf Edited January 18, 2016 by tonyh29 6 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Genie Posted January 18, 2016 Share Posted January 18, 2016 (edited) 28 minutes ago, limpid said: It's one of those things that you really should get serviced regularly. If you don't, at least make sure you have a CO alarm in the house. I'd rather it failed when there was an engineer right there to fix it I have one and it saved our lives! Couple of years back bleeping in the middle of the night, jumped out of bed thinking fire but was dazed and disorientated. (Like when you stop in a hotel, get drunk then in the night need a piss but forgot where the bathroom was :D). Went downstairs all was well, same upstairs too. Then realised noise was coming from the airing cupboard where the boiler is! Of course opened all the windows and called the emergency gas number who blanked off the gas supply. Got a plumber out next day who checked everything out and found the problem. Turns out that I must have disturbed the flue in the loft when I went up to put the cases back (we'd just got back from Centre Parcs). There was a gap in one of the joints and it was leaking CO into the loft which eventually dropped into the airing cupboard. He said newer ones are all screwed together but push fit used to be allowed. He screwed it all together tight (and reconnected the gas). Isn't worth thinking about what might have happened without that alarm. Luckily the children's rooms are other side of the house to the boiler! So yes, if you're reading this and don't own a Carbon Monoxide alarm buy one! Edited January 18, 2016 by Genie 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Stevo985 Posted January 18, 2016 Author VT Supporter Share Posted January 18, 2016 1 hour ago, limpid said: When did you last have it serviced? Its annual service was October. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
limpid Posted January 18, 2016 Administrator Share Posted January 18, 2016 8 minutes ago, Stevo985 said: Its annual service was October. And your radiators weren't hot afterwards? That would worry me. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Stevo985 Posted January 18, 2016 Author VT Supporter Share Posted January 18, 2016 (edited) 1 minute ago, limpid said: And your radiators weren't hot afterwards? That would worry me. They were hot, I was exaggerating slightly.. Hot enough for me not to think there was anything wrong. But they are noticeably hotter after the fix today. Edited January 18, 2016 by Stevo985 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
limpid Posted January 18, 2016 Administrator Share Posted January 18, 2016 1 hour ago, Stevo985 said: My radiators are actually hot, rather than their usual lukewarm temperature. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Rugeley Villa Posted January 18, 2016 Share Posted January 18, 2016 52 minutes ago, Xela said: First day back in the office after working from home for ten days with tendonitis. Foot is now throbbing again and I'm smacked up to the eyeballs on opiate based painkillers what painkillers dude? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Xela Posted January 18, 2016 Share Posted January 18, 2016 2 minutes ago, Rugeley Villa said: what painkillers dude? Co-codamol Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Rugeley Villa Posted January 18, 2016 Share Posted January 18, 2016 57 minutes ago, Xela said: Co-codamol im alright with them but tramadol knock me about. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Genie Posted January 18, 2016 Share Posted January 18, 2016 35 minutes ago, Stevo985 said: They were hot, I was exaggerating slightly.. Hot enough for me not to think there was anything wrong. But they are noticeably hotter after the fix today. Are you sure he hasn't just turned the water temperature dial up on the front of the boiler Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Stevo985 Posted January 18, 2016 Author VT Supporter Share Posted January 18, 2016 **** knows. "it's broke" is about as technical as I get. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
HanoiVillan Posted January 18, 2016 Share Posted January 18, 2016 On 1/17/2016 at 17:27, coda said: Was forced to read Jane Austen at school. It's like they're trying to put school kids off reading for life. She wrote some of the nation's favourite novels. Pride & Prejudice was 2nd in the Big Read - ie, the largest ever vote by the British public on their favourite novels, not by critics - and both Persuasion and Emma were in the top 50. Don't confuse the fact that you don't like something with it 'putting kids off reading for life'. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
useless Posted January 18, 2016 Share Posted January 18, 2016 Here's a list of the nation's best selling books. 'It's not top on this list: that's got Dan Brown's Da Vinci Code at number one, followed by the Harry Potter novels. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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