Thoroughly Modern Minnie's new boiler

[5t3IIa]

Don't be so ridiculous. When was the last time you needed a Swiss Army knife to get into a cow's backend?

 

[Pickman's model]

Don't be so ridiculous. When was the last time you needed a Swiss Army knife to get into a cow's backend?

i think she's retrieving the swiss army knife.

 

[London_Calling]

Reminds me of Saturday nights at Crystals.

 

[Treacle Toes]

It was working when they left. Now it isn't

Sssssh! Don't tell them that. Play the innocent female..

 

[Minnie_the_Minx]

WTF said these things were a piece of piss to use

 

[Lazy Llama]

If/when they do come round, get them to show you what they're doing because these boilers do need topping up when the pressure drops.

We've had ours in for a couple of months and had to top it up a few times as the builder keeps turning it off, disconnecting the radiators and draining the hot water pipes while working on the sinks.

 

[Minnie_the_Minx]

If/when they do come round, get them to show you what they're doing because these boilers do need topping up when the pressure drops.

We've had ours in for a couple of months and had to top it up a few times as the builder keeps turning it off, disconnecting the radiators and draining the hot water pipes while working on the sinks.

I already spent a week off work (paid) whilst they did the work that would take 3 days (it took 6 days, Tuesday 'til Wednesday midday). Then I lost more money whilst there last week while I waited for them to show me how to use the system. Naturally they didn't tell me anything about how to refill the water when the pressure goes.



Will have to arrange an early morning call before I go to work

 

[Minnie_the_Minx]

It's fixed. Took them a while to find out what was wrong with it after ripping the floorboards up looking for leaks. Found a tiny leak in the pipes behind the washing machine.

As for sorting the pressure again, there are two dials underneath the boiler that need to be turned to sort pressure problems out.

 

[Lazy Llama]

Glad it got fixed, and I'm just a big smug about "two valves under the boiler that have to be turned on to fill, and then off again afterwards"

 

[Minnie_the_Minx]

Glad it got fixed, and I'm just a big smug about "two valves under the boiler that have to be turned on to fill, and then off again afterwards"

yeah, but I never even knew they were there

Pressure was on zero anyway, and it wasn't 'til they found the leak behind the washing machine that the problem was resolved.

They showed me how to turn the knobs underneath (not that I don't know how to turn knobs). I have to turn the left one first, then the right one. I turn them 90 degrees and wait for the pressure dial thingy to go to the middle of the grey bit (apparently it's highly unlikely to go much further as the pressure is crap anyway - although I think we have Thames Water to blame for that). Once it's got to midway, then I turn the knobs to close again.

I wrote it all down as I know I'd forget some little phase of the operation

 

[Minnie_the_Minx]

and so the saga continues

I tried to run a bath today but it would seem I have water in my bathroom but it's not hot

 

[not-bono-ever]

valliant logo is a rabbit - cos the gas jest resemble rabbit ears when thyse on. fact

 

[Minnie_the_Minx]

valliant logo is a rabbit - cos the gas jest resemble rabbit ears when thyse on. fact

yes dear

 

[not-bono-ever]

known as bunny boilers in the trade apparently

how we laughed

 

[Minnie_the_Minx]

known as bunny boilers in the trade apparently

how we laughed

I might get the joke if you wrote it in English. Or are you dsylexic?

Or pissed?

 

[not-bono-ever]

this is the valliant logo:

The way the gas jets are located - they burn a V shape when the are on - resemble the ears of a rabbit, hence the adoption of a rabbit on their company logo

Heating engineers call them Bunny Boilers - eg, like in that filum with Glenn Close



No

Not worth the effort of posting I know

 

[Minnie_the_Minx]

You can't see the gas jets on my bunny bioler

 

[Minnie_the_Minx]

hm, there's an engineer there now and he can't figure out wtf's wrong with boiler. The flame's not getting high enough though.

He's having to ring people to see if they know what the problem is

 

[Minnie_the_Minx]

and so the saga continues.

After an engineer came last week and couldn't figure out why I wasn't getting hot water, he said he'd tell his company that a Vaillant engineer needed to come out.

He has just turned up at my door again wondering why the hell he's been sent back there


I'm starting to get wound up now

 

[Geri]

Should have got a Worcester.

*hides*

 

[London_Calling]

I fear Minnie's buried the engineer in the basement

 

[Minnie_the_Minx]

Should have got a Worcester.

*hides*

Knowing my luck it'd have been a dud Worcester

12th August this boiler was installed.

EVERYONE said it would be a piece of piss to use. Yeah right

They hadn't accounted for the fact that it was being installed for me and was therefore jinxed

 

[Minnie_the_Minx]

I fear Minnie's buried the engineer in the basement

A Vaillant engineer's coming on Monday and if he doesn't fix it, I'm throwing him in the basement

 

[Minnie_the_Minx]

Ho hum

Vaillant engineer's been and the pipework's been done wrong. The cold is going into the hot and vice versa so they need to sort that.

If that doesn't sort it, then the installation engineers may have ruined the flow switch by having it on backwards. In either case, it's not Vaillant's problem as the engineers installed in incorrectly.

Fucking brilliant

 

[quimcunx]

There is a shop in brixton market that sells good luck potions. you should get down there minnie.

they might have something that deals specifically with technology.

 

[Minnie_the_Minx]

There is a shop in brixton market that sells good luck potions. you should get down there minnie.

they probably only sell vials. I need a barrel of luck

I'm getting right angry about this now. Installed 12 August and still not working

 

[TrippyLondoner]

Ho hum

Vaillant engineer's been and the pipework's been done wrong. The cold is going into the hot and vice versa so they need to sort that.

If that doesn't sort it, then the installation engineers may have ruined the flow switch by having it on backwards. In either case, it's not Vaillant's problem as the engineers installed in incorrectly.

Fucking brilliant

This world a fucking wind up sometimes ain't it?

 

[Minnie_the_Minx]

This world a fucking wind up sometimes ain't it?

Arseholes

And no doubt, by the time my water's working, there'll be builders coming to rip down my damp wall.

 

[Geri]

Ho hum

Vaillant engineer's been and the pipework's been done wrong. The cold is going into the hot and vice versa so they need to sort that.

If that doesn't sort it, then the installation engineers may have ruined the flow switch by having it on backwards. In either case, it's not Vaillant's problem as the engineers installed in incorrectly.

Fucking brilliant

Were they Gas Safe registered?

 

[Xanadu]

I'm no longer an old boiler. I am with it. I have a combination boiler. It's very sexy. I'm so excited, I had to post pictures of it.

See how shiny it is

and so white

and digital display and knobs and dials and stuff

*waits for someone to say they have the same one and it breaks down constantly*

Got one in the flat that I've been renting for the past year. It hasn't broken down, but then I've only been here for a year.