Wrath of the God of Gas Appliances

[fluffymark]

I think I must have done something to infuriate the God of Gas Appliances. Somebody please tell me what.

Not satisfied with taking our cooker to big flamey death, today it was the turn of one of the gas boilers. Of which we have two, which I always thought excessive, but now I’m very glad of, as at least we still have hot water. *hugs hot water*

But what happened? Nothing as exciting as big flamey death, this time. Mr Gas Engineer insisted on inspecting the gas boiler, despite it being many months away from a check being due. Mr Gas Engineer insisted on checking just the one, despite them both being in the same room. Mr Gas Engineer decided that although it worked fine, it’s UNSAFE and DANGEROUS and rather than fixing it, ordered it turned off and put a big scary warning on it. *meeeeeeeep*

So no central heating. It’s the middle of winter, dammit, and cold out. Well, it’s cold inside now. No idea how long it will take to fix. I’m just hoping it gets fixed before the cold front of doom (-30C!!!) that’s been sweeping over East Europe this week hits London. That won’t be fun at all. Waaaaaaah.

Hoping that the God of Gas Appliances is now sated, I’ve now ordered a shiny new gas cooker. Meeped at the installation costs (£60?? eh?) lots. Still, what can possibly go wrong? *shudders*

Comments

[fluffymormegil.livejournal.com]

Presumably, he found some fault with the positioning of the boiler or the routing of the flue or somesuch. If so, he can't fix it. (Also, he may not have the necessary gubbins with him to fix arbitrary defects in arbitrary appliances anyway.)
Have a *hug*.
Might I suggest obtaining an electric fan heater in the meantime? Not the best way to keep warm, but better than freezing your feet off.

[feanelwa.livejournal.com]

Yeah...it might be helpful to make sure he actually is going to fix whatever's wrong with it. And at least he told you so you're not in imminent danger of death.

Also, -30 degrees in London, your pipes will burst anyway because England is stupid like that. I think so anyway.

[feanelwa.livejournal.com]

As in, it's not going to get that cold, I mean. And if it did, etc.

[fluffymark]

It won't get that cold - not sure if it'll even reach London. A deadly cold front has emerged from siberia, that the temperature in Moscow plummeted a whole 30C yesterday and it's travelling west and has now hit east europe. If it hits London it won't be -30C but it'll still get bloody cold.

[feanelwa.livejournal.com]

Better put an extra pair of socks on then. Or as my mother would say "thicker knickers, is what you want".

[fluffymark]

electric fan heater

Does a linux box count? *wonders* Quite a lot of heat coming off the back of my jellyfish. Enough to warm feet by.

[http://users.livejournal.com/_nicolai_/]

Run Folding@Home to make the machine warmer :-)

[fluffymormegil.livejournal.com]

Fan heaters run at a couple of kilowatts :) and will do a decent job of warming a room up if you keep the door shut. Obviously, you don't want to be running it all the time, given the wattage, but it's a useful thing to have around. (Especially since it doubles as a (small) summer fan, because the fan can be switched on without turning on the heating coils.)

[madbird.livejournal.com]

hi i'm a random stranger but rahter enjoyed reading about your gas applianace woes, don't ask...actually i'm a friend of a friend...
er, olbas is good huh? that's all...

[fluffymark]

I must apologise that all my gas appliance woes are now fixed, and I thus there will be no more enjoyable writings about broken boilers and the like. Woe to working gas appliaces giving me nothing to bitch about. Alas!

While you're here, tell me about your world domination plans.

[madbird.livejournal.com]

umm well to start with i sent you don't appreciate me text last night to a 'friend' who i decided did not appreciate me enough!hopefully when i see my friends , and new friends to be in small ways i spread the love and joy happiness at being alive, i read far too many new age books, but that's my first step in world take over? not sure if it makes seense but to me it does!x

[fluffymark]

no that makes perfect sense. keep your goal in mind and go for it. *nods*

[madbird.livejournal.com]

yes yes must keep remembering to take over world...it's easy to get carried aaway with work and money and day to day boredom...