Friday 26 April 2019

One of the reasons

For continuing to live a relatively frugal life, is to have the savings to do things or get people in to do things for us.

The 3 way valve switch box on our central heating has just about broken. We keep getting intermittent heat in the radiators even though the heating isn't on. Last time it went, DB changed it himself. Now he's happy to admit he would find it difficult to see what he's doing as well as twist in the airing cupboard to do it.

We had a man come to look at it yesterday afternoon. He changed it but believes the actual valve behind it isn’t swivelling correctly. This unfortunately will involve draining the whole system to change it. Radiators could do with a good empty out anyway as you can hear bits moving around sometimes.

Our heating was put in by the previous owner and we have spent decades dealing with it’s weird operating methods!

6 comments:

  1. Oh joy. At least you can get it done in the - relatively - warmer weather and not in the depths of winter.

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    1. Far quicker repair than anticipated.

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  2. Oh dear, sounds like a fairly big job - good thing you can get a man in to do it. I always worry that jobs like these might unearth other, bigger problems.

    We lead a frugal life partly out of necessity, partly because it's the only way we can ever afford to save for a cheap holiday.

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    1. Luckily, not too big a job nor too expensive.

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  3. I can remember Dad draining the radiators periodically in one of the businesses that he owned because he could hear things in the rads. Hope you get it done while the weather is nice.

    God bless.

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    1. All done. Lovely hot radiators and water this morning.

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