Oh dear... My boiler is no good!!

[shelley]

I have a love hate relationship with my boiler. I love it when it works but hate it when it doesn't. I had a problem with heating before xmas & was told that i'd be lucky if it lasted me until after xmas. My boiler is a back boiler situated behind my fire in living room (it's probably older than me lol). British gas came out yesterday & enginerr sorted it & said he'd arranged another call out for today for another engineer to give it a thorough service. Well engineer has come & said there is a problem with it, put it at risk & he will come back tomorrow morning with a quality control manager, so looks as though it will be condemned!! We been told it's dangerous to use & yesterdays engineer should have picked up on it. I've rang landlord to tell him but he not in so left a message. I'll be pleased if the condemn it but hope landlord doesn't mess around getting a replacement cos as of now we have no hot water left or heating. Thank god shower has it's own thermostat we can still have a shower or use shower to put water in bathroom sink for a wash !!!

[pinky29]

oh no hun good luck with it all maybe you & charley can get together on this one!

[shelley]

Well as all hell borke loose in my house today. the enginerr & quality manager turned up stripped my boiler to bits cleaned it all thoroughly & hey presto it's now fully functioning hooray. My livingroom was full of dust particles & soot. The only problem we had was the ventilation in livingroom, the air vent had cardboard glued to it leaving no ventilation in livingroom !!! The manager got a camera & took pics because british gas have serviced boiler every year & it's always passed but beacuse of this find on air vent it seems that it should have failed!!!! Thats 3 years of services to my knowledge alone!! Also the guy that came on Monday faces the sack because he left boiler as it was & it was emitting small amount of carbon monoxide! the manager was seething & at one point told a fellow manager on his phone they were lucky it was him here & nmot a leagl team. So with this coming to light we'll have to see whether our tiredness & headaches/migraines were just that or a result of pour very faulty boiler. We have bought a carbon monoxide detector from them today for £38 in case we have trouble in future with it.

It would seem that thanks to engineer who came yesterday & again with manager today, we've had a very lucky escape. I will be writing 2 letters to britsh gas, One of praise for engineer & one of complaint for all the errors that have occurred!!

[pinky29]

thats shocking good for you i'd do the same esp with young children in the house but i have to say only you can cause this much trouble!

[shelley]

hehe i know!! But the more it hought bout it last night the angrier i felt im glad the engineer will loose his job as it could have be a loved one that i lost

[pinky29]

i know just pure lazeness on his part