Plumber has just left me with no water or heating

lottieholder

Because my next-door-neighbour but one has decided to be an ar*e, I've had no heating or hot water all winter. I have an electric shower, so I can keep clean. Open fire and and electric radiators for heating. I've been boiling water in large saucepans when I need more than a kettle full of water. It's a bit of a nuisance but not the end of the world.

When I were a lass and stayed with my grandparents, my grandmother didn't believe in washing machines, so the water was boiled in a copper and then poured into dolly tubs. When we had baths it was lugged upstairs into the bathtub.

One night without a boiler really isn't that big an issue.

macman

OP, did you not think to ask how long the install would take when you commissioned the RGI?
Anyone doing that job in a day would be cutting corners-would you prefer that?
One night in May without heating isn't exactly a catastrophe.

poppellerant

While the thread title says "Plumber has just left me with no water or heating", the OP says:

Homely wrote: »

no heating or hot water so none of us can have a wash before school tomorrow and when I said I wasn't happy about having no hot water

So whether the OP is entirely without water or just without hot water is currently up for debtate.

If it's just hot water you don't have I don't believe there are rules against this -just fill a sink with hot water from the kettle and use a flannel to clean yourself. If you have no water at all, then I would think there are rules against this.