Quite pleased with myself today
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My mum has been in hospital for the last 3 weeks.....today she was going home
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Ive had her central heating set at 15C for last 3 weeks.....just to stop the house getting too cold...and just let it do its thing..
So this morning I pop over to her house and turn the stat up to 21C....boiler kicks in, but 5 mins later it shuts down again and stays off....rads were luke warm when the boiler shut down...
I knew she paid for central heating insurance.....so I phoned up insurance comp....and got told to phone the number they gave me and quote an authorization code.....so phoned the central heating comp and explained the situation....got told they couldn't do anything for a week
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Phoned the insurance comp back, told them the outcome of that call.....and was given another number to call.....same result basically....carnt come out this week or next
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So I thought, sod em, lets do some basic fault finding....
So...
Boiler kicks in....but shuts down super quick....
Went up into loft to check the pump.....pump is running....but found two bleed valves about 2 inches above the pump (why 2valves I don't know)
Opened one valve, air hissed out.....closed when water ran out
Same thing with the other valve.....air hissed out then water.....
Boiler kicked back in and heating was working again
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So guess the pump was trying to circulate air!
Lovely and jubley warm when she came home
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I think I'm going to cancel the heating insurance she has......as clearly it doesn't suit an 85 old....I stressed this when I rang ins comp....and all they did was give me numbers to plumbers...whatever....who wouldn't come out as an emergency!
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Its £300 a year she pays for central heating failure
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