Travelling On

themadvix

Have you got a manual for the boiler KC? Adjusting the pressure on a combi boiler is quite a common thing to have to do and I think usually just involves pressing a button - my mum has to do this a couple of times a year. So it might be much easier than you think and save the plumber costs (although, if you've not had it serviced that would be a good move in any case).

peb

Lots of sensible points from badmemory, I was going to say the same thing about potatoes.     

Thanks for the response re chocolate, sadly no shop of that type near me.  

Cheery_Daff

We have to top up our boiler pressure pretty regularly too - we've had ours checked and there's no underlying fault, it's just the general water pressure I think. If we don't top it up, it goes low enough to show a fault code, but if we do it regularly, it doesn't. Just a case of turning a couple of taps for us.

Definitely worth getting it checked if it's not done it before though. Hope it's something straightforward to sort out. A cheerful reliable plumber is good indeed!

debtfreeoneday

Hope all ok with you KC 

apple_muncher

You've been really busy for a while now. Hope you've not crashed. Hugs.

Karmacat

Hello everyone thank you for the info and the support.  Erm, I usually have a knitting needle near to the boiler to press the reset button, but I can't currently find it.  Good idea to reset - I'll get another knitting needle.  No manual - I google error codes as they come up 

I definitely need the plumber coming anyway, I can't remember when it was last serviced.  I haven't bothered to get my convector heater set up, its not *quite* cold enough for that.  But I want my boiler working well as we head into winter, so a service will be A Good Thing  

The letter I had to send took all my energy, every single scrap of it: writing it, amending it (over and over), hours spent trying to get the printer to talk to either my laptop or my phone.  Nothing.  I'll take it and the laptop to my neighbourhood fixit guy, get him to do it by ethernet cable.  Don't know where my ethernet cables are right now, I may have dislodged them into the ether itself, oops.

Anyway, wrote out the letter by hand, walked to the post office, spent £6.80 something for guaranteed delivery by 1pm today, that's something.  Shattered, so nothing else done.

Today: washing machine on, I didn't get round to doing the dishwasher either, I was supposed to listen to a U3A national meeting this morning, and I tried, but it's about governance ... I had a year of that in my local counselling organisation and I can't make myself listen to 3 hours on a zoom call, I just can't.  At least I know that if a vote comes up, I vote for what the board is trying to do (they're all volunteering and doing 40 hours a week, thats not sustainable, so ... ).

I *am* tired, but I need to carry on tidying the place for the plumber tomorrow afternoon.  I may make an hour tomorrow morning to do the last of the painting, that would be good.  I'm juggling a lot of things and a lot of issues, so I'm working hard at taking care of myself.

Today: the baby's first birthday!  🌞🌞🌞 just had a little video of mummy singing happy birthday first thing this morning, very precious.  

Watty1

3 hours on governance would exhaust the sprightliest of folk.  Take care of you, the rest will follow,

Karmacat

Thanks Watty, that's very kind.  

I've done lots of clearing, a bit more to do, and then I'll live upstairs for a bit, until the plumber arrives.  Unfortunately, I was careless yesterday with leaving the front door open too long while I was dealing with the recycling, and a huge (silent) fly got in, not a cluster fly, but I can't get to it to shoo it out, so it will have to be spray.  Annoying, but there we go, I can't even leave out a used teabag holder with something that size wandering about.  

Usual clicks done - 21p on the baby version of the Happy Wheel

Karmacat

So, that went well!  Fly revealed itself, and is now an ex-fly.  Plumber got here an hour early, bless his cotton socks, and it was the same guy as last time, hurray.  Inside of the boiler is still spotless, still no need for a service, he balanced it electronically ... something something ... and the fault was with the wireless thermostat, he got me pressing buttons inside the airing cupboard to show me the fault.  He bypassed it ⭐ so all good.  I've got the heat on right on, warming up the house; I had the windows open till it got dark, to get some through-air.  Very happy.  Hungry, too 😛  I need protein, yum.

Karmacat

Morning! The only thing I really did yesterday after the plumber was clear my bed so I could sleep, and change to my winter duvet - I didn't do that at all last year, but this year, but this year it feels necessary.

Good time on the baby Happy Wheel - a free £1 to play on the casino wheel, and I transmuted the whole £1 into real money, that worked well.

My only to-do today is to go for a good walk - I'll do other things, of course, but that's the thing that really matters   this is a pair of feet: 👣