One of Those Days! nb

[TheBoatman]

I started the day with a couple of pieces of toast and peanut butter, the toaster refused to work properly giving me first under-done, then near burnt toast. I then went off to the club to drive the travel hoist and lift 3 boats, 2 twisters and a cruiser, all went well in that dept, members happy, boats ashore and nicely tucked up for the winter. Came home and decided that the grass really needed to be mowed one last time, so did that. SWMBO said that she noticed that there was a nasty "wet patch" on the wall in the hall, I had a look and decided that a central heating pipe under the floor was leaking so I set to and started to cut out the floor to locate the pipe and the possible leak. I was about 2 minuites into to this when I cut the central heting pipe with the chisel, water spurting up the walls. Turned off the water and drained down the heating. With SWMBO, we mop up the water. Oh well I thought that's it, I'll carry on and expose the pipes and find this leak. 2 miniutes later I "kango" through the gas main. More panic, shut off the main, open the windows and doors and generally vent the place. Phone Transco who send out an engineer. He tells me that he won't/can't undertake such a job and caps off the main and advises me that I need to contact a registered Corgi plumber to solve the problem and I can't turn the main back on until a registered corgi engineer say so.

I'm now sitting in a house with no gas or central heating?

SWMBO says she's going to the chippy to buy tea and leaves me to it.

Whilst shes away I get out all me old and defunct plumbing equipment and set too?
I've repaired the pipes and I am now waiting for the Corgi plumber to arrive in the next 2 days to say it's OK to fire the systems up again.

Why is that I can do plumbing for any one else, I do it when I'm installing machines for my business, but the moment I need to do it for myself everything goes belly-up?

Is it because it's a Monday?

Or is it just me? Either way I'm bloody freezing and I can't have a fry-up breakfast today!

Boo Hoo

Peter.

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[pragmatist]

? because you started it at the end of the day ? Highly recommend the little 1-burner portable gas stoves (about £20 from Argos) - ideal for power failures, gas disasters, not wanting to fire up the Rayburn (sitting eating fry-up [grin] !). Anyway if you have backup then the disaster's less likely to happen !

<hr width=100% size=1>a pragmatist is an optimist with a boat in the UK - but serious about not being in the UK !

 

[Clive_Rigden]

Whatever you do, DON'T fix that broken roof tile (because of the forecast gales) while you're waiting for the Corgi engineer . . .

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[LittleShip]

British Gas 3star system approx £15 a month /forums/images/icons/wink.gif No further worries??

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I wish I'd been born rich instead of good looking ?

 

[peterb]

Service plans

I used to have a BG service plan; labour only, I paid for parts.

Then one day I had a letter saying that they were discontinuing labour-only plans, and that the new plan would cover both labour and parts (at an increased price, of course).

The following day(!) I had a letter saying that because of the age of my boiler they could no longer supply the parts. No decrease in the price of the service, though.

Since then I've done my own servicing.

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[Shakey]

I could be talking rubbish here, so take this with a pinch of salt.

If you do gas related repairs to someone's house or whatever you have to be a competent person ie. CORGI registered.

If you do the repairs to your own house that you and your family live in, no lodgers or owt like that, then so long as you're a 'competent person' that's OK.

However, if your house blew up and took half the neighbourhood with it you might find it difficult to demonstrate to a court that you were indeed a 'competent person'.

I'd take the safe route and not touch anything gas related. (Until I get my CORGI! ;-) )

<hr width=100% size=1>It could have been worse - it could have been me.