Wednesday… We have heat!
Mar 18th 2009PeterGetting My Life Back!
And very nice it was to come back to a nice warm flat! After a bit of prompting, the agency got hold of a heating engineer who came round to the flat today. He duly pulled the boiler apart, and did a few diagnostic tests before deciding that it was the flow sensor that was faulty. At that point I had to leave to go back to work. ( should add that it is a combination boiler, instant hot water and central heating. Hot water takes priority when it is called for).
He ‘phoned about an hour later to say that he had found the problem – a leaky tap in the bathroom! The hot tap is a bit loose in the basin, so I avoid turning it off tightly, and it seems that the system is so sensitive that the sensor detected the flow and prevented the heating from coming on! So I was slightly embarrassed at not having spotted that myself, but I now need a conventional plumber to fix the tap, and in the meantime make sure all the bathroom taps are shut off completely.
The only other thing to get fixed is the grill on the cooker, but apart from that, it is great being able to cook a meal and then relax in the evenings. The GPRS works well, and I can get 3G in the flat, so it is almost as fast as the ADSL connection athome!
So… Onwards and upwards!