Get a grip woman!

greent

You have my totally sympathy re household goods and cars and issues!!! Fingers crossed you can get the boiler chap out asap and the CH back working.

themadvix

Hope your neck is feeling better today and the cold continues to go. I feel your pain re the household goods - our electric shower broke yesterday, completely unexpectedly, which added to the fun of getting decorating finished! Hope car issue is nothing major too.

Suffolk_lass

Central Heating man coming this afternoon. We (well He) think(s) it is the burner. We have done as he asked and reset, and checked the oil (to make sure no-one had stolen it all!). I can make it fire but it doesn't stay on, suggesting burner, apparently.

Someone coming to talk through some stuff with me shortly then I must ring the garage. DH doing the lights in the van (replacing the dangerous old ones) with low-voltage LEDs - they are not great quality so he is modifying them by adding plastic guard-blocks to hide the wiring. One of them is dead where it all went wrong with a flip of a hot soldering iron (we had one spare) - I have just given encouragement to persevere!

Suffolk_lass

Oh dear. It was the other pump (one for heating replaced last year, this is the other one). Just under ten years old. Sadly that was £190 :eek: but we can't manage with no hot water even if we can with no heating!

missymoo81

Hey SL,
I’m so sorry you’re so poorly! But gosh you’re Managing to do so much.
And bless you I hope your heating gets sorted that’s the last thing you need!

Suffolk_lass

Thanks missymoo81, I'm pretty much on the mend now. Just a relief to have the appliances working really.

We are both sat at our desks, at opposite ends of the house, on our computers. Oh the bliss of married life! I must get on with my day in a minute. Just one more coffee first...

missymoo81

SL me and OH sat face to face in a coffee shop yesterday working on our phones barely saying a word! We’ve been married 6 months!!!

rtandon27

Suffolk_lass wrote: »

...We are both sat at our desks, at opposite ends of the house, on our computers. Oh the bliss of married life!...

SL - you are not the only one - OH & I routinely park ourselves in different rooms just to be alone with our own thoughts:D - means we can tolerate each other the rest of the time :rotfl::rotfl::rotfl:

Suffolk_lass

Well we could not be free with our online friends if we were conducting a conversation with our other halves, could we!?

Actually, DH has taken on a bike club role that needed him to set up lots of things on the interweb - so he was busy doing that!

- Me? I was researching kitchen refresh costs (very taken with some discussions on edinburgher's thread). I would like to replace some pretty (ie I still like them) rather dates checkerboard of 3 coloured tiles with an updated splashback and windowsill - DH still likes them. My position is that there is a crack to be addressed and the grout between the wall and the work surface needs doing - his position is that we want to minimise the expense.

The big issue is the need to address the cracked glass hob which is a size of cut out that nobody makes (except one, which would cost £1000). Replacing the 40ml thick granite it sits in is not an option. Period. No discussion on that one.

We could get the cut out cut larger but then the hob would be wider too, and the cupboards that butt up to the overhead extractor are already showing signs of steam-related deterioration so they would need to be replaced and the left one is already only 300mm wide, so the only option would be to replace the 600mm wide double door cupboard with a single narrower one, but that would mean the extractor being moved 100mm to the right so it is central to the gap. Hmm. Then the tiles would need to be extended (we have spares - naturally!) or replaced. I favour a board with no grout.

If the top layer of the laminated glass hob could be delaminated safely, DH could commission a stainless steel fabricator to make one. Or we could spend a £1000 on a new hob that fits. Oh my, 1st world problems!

Debsnewbudget

Can you not claim off your insurance for the hob?