The Nice People Thread, No.16: A Universe of Niceness.

chris_m

PasturesNew wrote: »

I hate food packaging heating instructions - some are mustard print on a brown background... and blurred.

You forgot the minute font size that they like to use, irrespective of the lack of colour contrast :mad:
I have to keep a second pair of reading specs in the kitchen to supplement my normal specs for those.

LydiaJ

Helpful Builder to the rescue again. I was away on a training course all weekend when I got an anguished phone call from DS saying water was pouring out of the boiler vent and also out of somewhere in the airing cupboard from where it was making its way through the ceiling of the dining room. Gave instructions over the phone on where and how to shut off the water, and turned off both the heating and hot water with the Tado app on my phone. Helpful Builder was also out of town this morning but came round this evening so now we have heating again, and the cold water is back on. We won't have hot water until he's got us a new expansion vessel, but he hopes to get one tomorrow and fit it straight after the end of his normal work day.
(Annoyingly the bloke who fitted the system when I bought the house and upgraded from gravity-fed to high pressure hadn't put an isolation tap to enable separation of the hot and cold systems, so Helpful Builder kindly put one in or we'd still have no water at all this evening.)

vivatifosi

All this talk of buying printers... we bought a new printer the other week on a cashback deal. Looked tiny when we went to look at it in PC world. When it turned up at home though it was a mammoth. Had to buy a new table to put it on.


Note to future self.. if something looks small in a gigantic warehouse it may not be the same in the context of a typical British living room. Doh!

chris_m

vivatifosi wrote: »

Note to future self.. if something looks small in a gigantic warehouse it may not be the same in the context of a typical British living room. Doh!

A previous boss found that when he bought a new telly. It looked good in the store but totally dominated the living room - his wife was not impressed

Jazee

My new printer arrived yesterday. It is still in the box. The box is smaller than the old printer.

Pyxis

PasturesNew wrote: »

LOL. I found that. I know exactly where that is ... under the stairs, with the drill and the drill bits.

Where was it, in the end?

You're mean, you know, Pastures.

We suffered with you, week after week, month after month, while you agonised over where you might have put it, all of us here in anguish trying to think where it might be, and then, aeons later, when we've all given it up as lost for ever, you calmly say..."LOL, I found that".
Aaaaaaaaaargh!

WHERE WAS IT?

PasturesNew wrote: »

That is one of my worst nightmares.... every time I have a bath I have a secret fear the the boiler's exploded/is flooding down in the kitchen.




I'd NEVER have a boiler in a loft, as you can't get up there easily and look, fiddle, evaluate, deal with it!

I hope it's sorted soon.... good job he was in!

I'd have a meltdown and "never recover" from the awfulness of the event. It's one of my major issues with boilers... they have the ability to simply pack up and go into "flood" mode... the b4st4rds.

Mine's been in my loft for about seventeen years.

I had it put up there because my kitchen is small, and to have it there would have meant losing a cupboard I could ill afford to lose, and there wasn't anywhere else to put it. I mean, who wants a boiler in their living or dining room?

I've had far more problems with leaks from my showers.

Every shower I've ever had has leaked at some point, descending into the room below, and some hadn't been installed all that long.

And I'm talking about leaks from behind the control knobs, not leaks from the shower trays. Insidious leaks, that you only notice when it has become really bad.

LydiaJ

PasturesNew wrote: »

That is one of my worst nightmares.... every time I have a bath I have a secret fear the the boiler's exploded/is flooding down in the kitchen.

I'd NEVER have a boiler in a loft, as you can't get up there easily and look, fiddle, evaluate, deal with it!

I hope it's sorted soon.... good job he was in!

I'd have a meltdown and "never recover" from the awfulness of the event. It's one of my major issues with boilers... they have the ability to simply pack up and go into "flood" mode... the b4st4rds.

In this instance the boiler is innocent. There is nothing wrong with it, and when it was sent far more water than was good for it, it calmly directed it outside through the vent that's meant to take steam outside.

The guilty party is the expansion vessel attached to the hot water tank, which has some kind of membrane inside that has apparently perished - not unexpected, I gather, for one that's 8 years old - so now we need a new one.

silvercar

"up the scale" - which way round is the scale?

Pyxis

PasturesNew wrote: »

She referred me without cross-questioning.
I'm a loon.

You're in good loony company! :rotfl:


Anyway, where did you find that screwdriver? :D;):D

vivatifosi

How do you feel having had the confirmation of what you already thought?