Central heating broken

COPD?

Sympathy to all with boiler problems. Ours hasn't given up, yet, but has been making an awful noise when the pump, circulating the water, stops. The engineer is fiddling around with it's innards at the moment. Unfortunately, the chap who installed and services our boiler, has had a knee replacement and is out of commission, so we had to find someone by referral. Fingers crossed.

My sympathies silversurf. My boiler has been on the blink for weeks and like Maggiemaybe I am well insured but they still need to go and get the parts which means extra days. I am now running up and downstairs switching it on and off to keep it going. To get enough hot water this has to be repeated frequently and a bath needs up to half an hour of very slow running. This is great when I have three grandchildren 4 days a week!!

The engineers are doing their best but this is age related and I know I actually need a new boiler. I dread the upheaval and extra problems this inevitably will involve (not to mention the cost!)

By the way our very experienced engineer said that when they rang the manufacturers the advice was read from the manuals by the staff on the end of the line! He used his knowledge of what he had learned from other boilers which was much more useful and has kept us going all over Christmas and New Year. He has studied my records and knows there is only one more thing to try so I'm living on borrowed time!!!

Boilers and washing machines .... they rule our lives!!

Update.
Gasman arrived late afternoon, it’s the pump which is faulty, but he didn’t have a correct replacement. So now I have to wait until tomorrow. Kind friend lent me another electric heater for the hall.
Now I have also discovered a leak in my kitchen tap. Hope he can deal it with that as well.
Don’t feel up to all this at the moment, I’m usually a very positive person. Let’s hope it is all sorted tomorrow.

silversurf so sorry to hear of you feeling so poorly make sure you keep wearing a woolie hat and thick socks also try and keep a pan of soup on the go for frequent hot snacks.

Originally I couln’tcontact my gas engineer so phoned British Gas (had a contract with them for 30 years until new boiler 3 years ago, then decided it had got too expensive). They said to try boiler manufacturer as it would be cheaper, but they’d phone me back in an hour to check. Phoned Worcester Bosch but they were shut for the evening. Waited for return call from British Gas, still waiting this morning. Very poor!
In the meantime got hold of my own gas engineer, who is coming this evening.
Thanks for your sympathy everyone

Imagine what 1947 must have been like

You do realise everyone that this is how we lived as children?

Fire in living room, but nowhere else. A paraffin heater in the bathroom that smelt and nothing in bedrooms or other rooms.

Sorry, silversurf, I forgot to add my best wishes. Hope it’s all sorted today for you.

Same here, Iam64. I probably overspend on insurances - we have our plumbing and electrics covered too - but like the reassurance of knowing any problem will be sorted the same day. And it always has been so far (though I’ve noted your three day wait, Teetime ).

Oh silversurf that's awful for you. I hope you managed to get some sleep and that he comes quickly today. we had three days without heating in December as something went pop in our boiler and even though we had a contract they had to get the part and it took a days wok to strip down the boiler. we strongly suspect that the engineer who did the service in the summer didn't check it all properly he was in and out of the house in record time.

Nightmare! I am so sorry that this is happening to you when you feel so poorly. We had a similar thing happen just as we moved into our last house, in one of the coldest winters I have known. Same as AliOxon - New Year, no plumbers, but we were much younger then and managed to tough it out until we got a new boiler. Do wrap up and have plenty of hot drinks. ??

Oh you do have my sympathy. Our boiler seized up a few years ago, on Christmas Day . It was one of the coldest winters we'd experienced. It was 3 whole days before we could get someone out to it, only to be told that it had frozen, and had we known, we could probably have thawed it out ourselves .
I do hope you manage to keep yourself warm until it's fixed. Good old hot water bottles, eh?!

Those contracts with British Gas are expensive but, if you are elderly or have a disability (at any age) they get out within a couple of hours of your phone call. They fix anything. I'm lucky, we can afford one and it's paid for itself for the past 3 years.

We had no heating or hot water from Dec 29th till 12th January, plus our house was flooded by the hot water tank so lots of damp walls, ceilings. Borrowed lots of portable heaters and dehumidifiers. Heating engineers have just put in new system with no water tanks- hooray. Go to bed early wearing lots of layers, wear a hat and scarf indoors, look forward to the heat being back on. I found after a few days it was warmer outside than in, we went round to visit a lot of friends and neighbours. Why do these things always happen in January / weekends?

Aww bless you. Stay in your warm room, lots of blankets, flasks of soup, hot tea etc. Sleep on the sofa if it's warmer than going to bed! Look after yourself and hopefully by this time tomorrow your heating will be back on.

Oh, I do sympathise. I had my heating out all over the Xmas and NY time, all plumbers away! At least you can have him tomorrow, anyway. Wrap up and keep as warm as possible meanwhile.