On Thursday morning our central heating system wouldnt light. We thought it was just one of those things, but it still wouldnt light on Thursday evening, so we knew there was a problem.
I called up British Gas on Friday, and was offered a Monday appointment which I grabbed gratefully, as being without heating or hot water isnt much fun. (work very kindly said I could take a days holiday as an emergency to get it sorted) It turned out that a heating engineer was able to pop out on Friday afternoon (Douglas was having a day off)and have a look.
A rather new bloke came out, and said the motherboard was dead, and another chappy would come out on Saturday and fix it.
This newish engineer also took a look at our gas fire, meausred the Carbon Monoxide levels it was giving off, and told Douglas that it was spitting out the lethal gas at three times the safe limit!!!!! eeek! He put a warning sticker on it saying "do not use".. oh dear, another thing to mend! Well, rather that than us ending up with Carbon Monoxide Poisoning!
Douglas has now purchased us a new Carbon Monoxide detector, just in case it happens again. We did have one before but it bust, and we hadnt replaced it. Let this be a warning to all ye with gas fires. Go spend £25/£30 on a Carbon Monoxide monitor.. its better than being dead!
Another gas engineer came on Saurday, fixed the problem which was some wires from the motherboard that had come loose. It was sooo good to have heating and hot water back again.. it really does make us appreciate such luxuries!
I called up a gas fire repair company on Saturday morning, and they are coming out on Monday some time to sort that out. (My requested emergency day off will come in very useful, after all)
I wish we had never purchased a flue-less gas fire.. its given us quite a lot of trouble since we had it installed. Lets hope it can be fixed on Monday! I will let you all know.
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Um, yes. Please get that fixed. Am planning to enjoy your blog for a good long time, thank you very much. 8-)
I have just replace the batteries on our carbon monoxide alarm. It is near the boiler in the attic and may have "bleeped" low battery for ages for all I know as wer are not up there very often. Maybe not the best location for it? I think D's sister (and M) would recommend one also to be near the gas cooker.
We have ours near our gas fire.. the old one wouldnt test despite a new battery. We have a much nicer one care of John Lewis Partnership now lol
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