Tuesday, 13 October 2026

#BlogLife1150 - Boiler indecisive moods - Engineer gobbledygook!

Song of the day - Deni Hines - It's Alright

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=p_FectCw-jg&list=WL&index=96

Oh I used to love this forgotten song...

I started the day off with music. I feel okay actually even after yesterday's cleaning, it didn't take long and wasn't gruelling.

I really love that simple mix, hot water, bleach and washing up liquid. It serves me well.

I did two methods as I don't have a bucket, filled the sink with the soapy concoction and the other one was just spilling it directly onto the mop itself which is my preferred method now.

Something weird is that, half the tall mop handle is gone. I don't know how that happened.

Either it fell out or was thrown away mysteriously by someone else...

Ok the engineer just left. He came in the last 15 minutes of the appointment and I couldn't understand a word he said.

No apology utter confusion. Do they take classes on how to bewilder customers?

I don't know why they act like it's always a catastrophe site. He seemed to indicate there was an issue with the thermostat..

Then it was... I need to run tests. I didn't know if he was coming back or not, they normally do that, flit from indoors to outdoors to back inside..

So I stood by the door like a fool waiting, while my hand just got painful.

And then he joked I'm not here all day. I told you I was done and that was it...

Oh I swear he clipped on or installed another boiler on/off switch....

Why? The other one works well. I didn't understand the logic and then he says, I need to switch it off to run diagnostics..

I thought Ok... I hope it's easy to turn it back on again.. As I thought he meant he was turning off the whole system and I'd have to figure out what to press on the boiler.

At this point I don't even know if it's on or off. It's now boiling though..

Oh I haven't eaten so time to make toasties..

Ok a few things I realised, a lil too late. He was not clear so today because the boiler is fine.

The blue numbers are still there, no error message. It turned on easily today..

I'm wondering if he meant..... You turn off the boiler for me, I'll do what I need too outside with the meters and then when I leave, you turn it back on....

That was not clearly conveyed and he did not say.. I asked you to turn it off..

I assumed he did it... Oh such a headache when they are not talking properly.

The other thing was I forgot to ask him to loosen the tap. Plus for some reason in the bathroom...

I thought the hot tap, was the cold tap...... So that's why running the cold tap didn't produce hot water....

In my defence ha..... I usually run the tap and by the time I'm done, there's no hot water anyway.

It is very slow to produce warm/hot water... So it is working. I know the radiators seem only lukewarm..

I don't feel cold... Maybe I freaked out for nothing and it's all ok?

I'm glad it's done for another half a year or so... I need to make breakfast..

It's nearly 2pm lol