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  • chris_m
    chris_m Posts: 8,250 Forumite
    Part of the Furniture 1,000 Posts Name Dropper
    Why does fixing a leaking pipe that used to service a gas fire require a new boiler?
  • G_M
    G_M Posts: 51,977 Forumite
    Part of the Furniture 10,000 Posts Name Dropper Combo Breaker
    Because it is more profitable for the gas-fitter?

    Or less cynically it sounds like the boiler didn't work as an unrelated fault.
  • biggsy137
    biggsy137 Posts: 71 Forumite
    chris_m wrote: »
    Why does fixing a leaking pipe that used to service a gas fire require a new boiler?

    The boiler is FUBAR - an on going problem - hence getting it done at the same time.

    I foresee tears too, however I am mearly a lodger digging to see where we all stand. The main tenant deals with the LL so I have advised him to get it in writing. My name is going on nothing so I am not the customer, with a bit of luck the LL details will go as the customer. but that's down to the guy organising the work.

    It is only a matter of time before the whole situation the house is in goes very wrong, I know this, I have told the main tenant this and I am in contact with the local council for advice on the matter.

    Needless to say, as soon as the opportunity arises, we are out of here...

    (Oh, totally off topic, how can I quote multiple posts in my post?! Am I just being a bit of a mong?)
  • poppysarah
    poppysarah Posts: 11,522 Forumite
    biggsy137 wrote: »

    (Oh, totally off topic, how can I quote multiple posts in my post?! Am I just being a bit of a mong?)

    The little icon with two speach bubbles?
  • G_M
    G_M Posts: 51,977 Forumite
    Part of the Furniture 10,000 Posts Name Dropper Combo Breaker
    What's a mong? Maybe you are and maybe you're not!
  • moromir
    moromir Posts: 1,854 Forumite
    Part of the Furniture 1,000 Posts Name Dropper Combo Breaker
    G_M wrote:
    What's a mong?

    A particularly heinous peice of slang with origins of misusing the word 'mongaloid' to refer to down's syndrome sufferers and retardedness.
  • G_M
    G_M Posts: 51,977 Forumite
    Part of the Furniture 10,000 Posts Name Dropper Combo Breaker
    OOOooooh! You mean 'spas' surely?
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