And Now I’ve Got No Hot Water
This is only a small thing in the major scheme of things. But my hot water failed last week!
It appeared that my clothes washer had failed and had somehow buggered the main fuse box or at least the part of it that controlled the gas water heater.
It didn’t matter too much, as I only use hot water for showers and I could have them at my physio or as I did at the weekend at the hotel I stayed in at Plymouth.
The electrician came yesterday and found that Jerry had struck again, in that he’d not connected the electrics properly.
Once that had been sorted, it now appeared that that the cause of the failure wasn’t the washing machine, but the control system of the boiler had shorted. Obviously, at the moment, it was only set to provide hot water, but it does explain how sometimes in the winter, the house could never seem to get the temperature right.
And then guess what! The stand-by immersion heater doesn’t work. It must have failed some years ago, and the tenant and/or the landlord never got round to replacing it.
So never buy a house that has been rented without a full survey on all the electrics too!
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