Winter drawers on

[Newportnobby]

For those in the UK, it may be time to get your boiler serviced (and I don't mean SWMBO).
I heard on the news this morning they reckon temperatures at the end of November could dip as low as minus 15 Celsius
Memories of 2 years ago when my boiler gave up the ghost in December, no one could fix it and I didn't get a new one until February

[Sprintex]

For those in the UK, it may be time to get your boiler serviced (and I don't mean SWMBO)

Paul

[scotsoft]

That must have been horrendous for you, especially at your age     

Reading your post reminded me of last year when I was dealing with broken/ cracked bones and was not in a very festive mood  :'(

cheers John.

[Tank]

My tip for if your boiler fails in very cold weather......put an electric heater under the boiler to warm it up!  Not too hot obviously!!!  I've had to do that with mine two years running - despite passing the service with no problems.

[guest373]

I was told of a problem with condensate discharge pipe freezing in very cold weather, then found this

http://www.worcester-bosch.co.uk/homeowner/customer-service/common-winter-boiler-enquiries

If warming the boiler fixes the boiler and there is nothing else wrong, maybe worth looking at.

[scotsoft]

Thank you for posting the link to that site, very informative and could help save train money 

cheers John.

[1936ace]

Yeh it was freezing here today I think it got down to about 26 degrees C can't wait for summer
Bart

[Jerry Howlett]

Yeh it was freezing here today I think it got down to about 26 degrees C can't wait for summer
Bart

Yep at those temperatures the Italians here would still be wearing their padded jackets.. 12 C today still very mild for the mountains.

[scotsoft]

Yeh it was freezing here today I think it got down to about 26 degrees C can't wait for summer
Bart

cheers John.

[d-a-n]

In a way I'm glad the pump on our boiler went last Friday - the landlord's fitted a new one and it should all be good for this coming winter! Something always goes wrong with it every winter...

[Newportnobby]

In a way I'm glad the pump on our boiler went last Friday - the landlord's fitted a new one and it should all be good for this coming winter! Something always goes wrong with it every winter...

Not by any chance made by Ideal?

[d-a-n]

Not by any chance made by Ideal?

Not sure what was in there before but this new Primaflow's very, very similar to the old one. The old pump only lasted a year. I'm sure the plumber the landlord gets out just bangs any old secondhand stuff he has kicking around into our plumbing!!

[daveg]

Yeh it was freezing here today I think it got down to about 26 degrees C can't wait for summer
Bart

cheers John.

Love that smiley! 

[MikeDunn]

Mine's still down ... no sign of a heating engineer either 

Had someone look at the imersion heater this morning & he fixed it - but the damn thing's crapped out again ...    Oh well, he's back tomorrow first thing, and at least we have warm water today/tonight.

[Alex]

Minus 2 this morning so had to close the van window slightly. Hmmm, have to look out me thermal string vest.

Alex