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[shinytoaster]

So what did we do before central heating? I've been without it for five days at this point after it packed up at the weekend. At first we thought the boiler had died, on account of how it wasn't firing up, but then it started firing up again late Sunday. However, it only made hot water, which is fine for washing up and baths and showers and so on, but I like my radiators to be on as well. Despite the central heating programme on the controller working to schedule, we were only getting hot water.

So several handily positioned fan heaters and a lot of jumpers later, and the landlord's husband - amenable chap and also apparently an electrical engineer, flips a little switch in the airing cupboard. 'This is the manual override,' he says. 'The heating will work now.' Except that, of course, it doesn't. It only works when the hot water is on. And when the system decides the hot water is hot enough, it shuts off everything. Including the central heating. So at most we have two hours of radiators a day until whatever the problem with the controller is can be sorted out.

I have had damp. I have had cowboy builders. I have had an arsehole flatmate. I have had a leaky roof over my bed. I have had more damp. Now I have no heating. Is it really too much to ask for a place that works?

My fleece-lined thermal winter cycling kit is starting to look attractive as everyday wear at this point.

Comments

[benjj.livejournal.com]

Nowhere ever works... Neither the heating nor the windows* worked properly in my last place. And the problems we've had with hot water here...

*too much dirt, you couldn't see out. (oh and the catches were plastic which had corroded or whatever plastic does, and wouldn't work...)

That is incredibly short hair... Why did you have all your insulation cut off? Can I lend you a hat?

[pegkerr.livejournal.com]

You can buy an electric blanket and retire to bed for the duration.

[petulans.livejournal.com]

Urgh - doesn't sound fun. Heike and I had to do without hot water or central heating for the majority of last winter due to a series of fuckups by the landlord and electrician. Suffice to say that it was not anywhere near as nice as your new haircut is!

[malachan.livejournal.com]

hahah abut was stickying up just nw

i think its uits hi tbf

see you tomorrow maye>

friday tomrorw yay!

[titanic-days.livejournal.com]

What did we discuss about LJing drunk?

[petulans.livejournal.com]

*Dies* <3!

I don't think that there's Snape Pubbing tomorrow - I'm not sure, but I think that people are heading straight to the party. I shan't, unfortunately, be attending either, though, as starcrossedgirl is heading off to Germany for her grandfather's funeral in the early hours of Saturday, so I doubt I'll be around on Friday.

<3s some more!

[sophie10.livejournal.com]

*is utterly terrified*

What have you done with my I don't get drunk!Cyg?

[frozen-jelly.livejournal.com]

Hot water bottles all the time. In bed, walking around the house, sitting down, the bottle goes with you!

[longtimegone]

I am talking to a drunk cyg who says:

alex says heating go say hello when heatingf sayhot water is on

t0000000b. This entry, thankfully, was enough for me to decipher that.

*sends you both blankets and jumpers*

[malachan.livejournal.com]

my heater is one i keep meraning to turn it off but i dont

[malachan.livejournal.com]

I have had an arsehole flatmate.

:(((((((((((((((

[longtimegone]

*dies laughing*

[titanic-days.livejournal.com]

MORONIC MATTHEW, t00bface!!!!!!

[titanic-days.livejournal.com]

I have fifteen brand new icons. Go lookie lookie. I want to make more. I want a hundred and twelvety iconses!

*bounces at you despite terminal tiredness*

[sophie10.livejournal.com]

Ick! We didn't have heating last winter in the upstairs and none downstairs by spring time. It does indeed suck.