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Thanks - I'd welcome a recommendation!
DM me if you want me to recommend a decent heating engineer
Yep, ours is on.
An annual, late summer, task for me is to clean and service the boiler. It's not a task that I would normally feel confident about doing but needs must. It's a long story so I'll shorten it.
The plumbers that installed the boiler (a wood pellet burner) went bung and there is no other (local) plumber that I'd trust to do it. I spoke with the manufacturer's local rep and asked for recommended plumbers and they were less than forthcoming - so I took the hint. Fortunately, I'd watched - and chatted with - the installing plumber as he did a couple of services (before they went bung), so I kinda knew what was happening. I genuinely wasn't checking up on him, I'm just interested in that sort of stuff, a basic mechanical mind. And he, to his credit, let me ask questions and became more-or-less a tutor. So I felt prepped, albeit unintentionally.
First time, 2 years ago, I gave myself a full day to do a job that took him around 3 hours. But time is something I have. This year, it took me around 4 hours. I'm going to add an extra step next year but again I set no time pressure. I'm sort of looking forward to it.
Does bung mean bust - as in closed down?
Still not kicked in - thermostat is set to 19.6, temp dropped to 19.7 this morning, before the sun kicked in, and again this afternoon when we had the door open.
If the forecast is vaguely accurate, I think it might not trigger the heating until October - we shall see.
My cats are desperate for it to kick in, and one of them regularly sleeps on a cushion by a cold radiator 🥶