Boiler died - Merry Christmas...

Ringo · 24 Dec 2010 at 11:00

Dunks said:
Your gas pipe froze? As in the gas inside it? I somehow doubt that

The freezing point of natural gas is minus 182° degrees c

MofoKilla · 24 Dec 2010 at 11:04

like others have said check waste pipe aint froze it will cause boiler to trip out.

greengiant · 24 Dec 2010 at 11:12

Luckily I still have central heating, but nae hot water as I'm waiting on Mario getting the part he ordered to fix the boiler... No immersion heater either as I have a combi boiler so no hot water tank.

Cold showers aren't pleasant at this time of year....

Nitefly · 24 Dec 2010 at 11:13

I actually read this thread as 'my brother died' :eek:

So count yourself lucky

Tachyon · 24 Dec 2010 at 11:23

Cold weathers killing everything at the minute. Came home 2 nights ago and water was ****ing everywhere in the garage, had 3 bursts in 2 pipes, near pooped my pants. It sucks but just tell yourself these things will pass and you'll soon forget it happened, as my wife said, don't let it ruin your Christmas, have a nice one.

tuftyfella · 24 Dec 2010 at 12:46

Dunks said:
Your gas pipe froze? As in the gas inside it? I somehow doubt that

water got into the pipe, how this happened has yet to be determined.

Phoenixdancer · 24 Dec 2010 at 12:47

Tachyon said:
Cold weathers killing everything at the minute. Came home 2 nights ago and water was ****ing everywhere in the garage, had 3 bursts in 2 pipes, near pooped my pants. It sucks but just tell yourself these things will pass and you'll soon forget it happened, as my wife said, don't let it ruin your Christmas, have a nice one.

Leave the door open... ICE RINK¬!

NickK · 24 Dec 2010 at 12:48

Selekt0r said:
Oh great - woken up this morning to find no heating or hot water, and the boiler is as dead as a... well, parrot...

Amazingly, our 'emergency cover' insurance tells us they will send a heating engineer around tomorrow, but on previous experience I doubt very much whether they will have the right part(s) to fit on the spot.

So, I'm off to buy some fan heaters (assuming anywhere has any in stock now).

Merry Christmas

Get a oil radiator - far far far better than a fan heater.

dannyjo22 · 24 Dec 2010 at 13:33

Make sure you use B and Q's rental service. Box them back up nicely once you have done and return them.

Cosimo · 24 Dec 2010 at 13:37

Selekt0r said:
However, I popped out to B&Q and have managed to pick up some fan heaters, and we thankfully also have an electric shower and dishwasher, so we'll be OK until it gets fixed.

Now what else can go wrong before tomorrow?

mrteabag · 24 Dec 2010 at 13:39

simulatorman said:
Now what else can go wrong before tomorrow?

Power cut

Haydz · 24 Dec 2010 at 13:47

There's a pipe burst around the BL0/BL9 area, so I'm without any water. Yay

Muffin` · 24 Dec 2010 at 13:50

I've had my boiler go the last two xmas's for a few weeks at a time, it was nippy to say the least...

mrteabag · 24 Dec 2010 at 13:56

Swap with this lad for a while

I live in a secret volcano base

OriginalJonty · 24 Dec 2010 at 14:08

Unlucky mate. My car brakes pretty much went yesterday. Cost almost £400 to get them repaired.

Fourstar · 24 Dec 2010 at 14:11

tuftyfella said:
water got into the pipe, how this happened has yet to be determined.

Could be a harbinger of doom :eek:

Dec 21st last year more than 1000 houses near me in East Barnet (North London) lost gas when a water main burst and found the path of least resistance was to cave in a gas main and flood all the gas pipes! Presumably they must have been so corroded only the clay was holding the gas in.

It took a couple of weeks to return service and this year all the gas pipes in the area and also some of the water mains were been replaced.

Oh and after the gas was cut off electric heaters and hot plates were handed out to residents which promptly overloaded the electrical supply and left them without gas or electricity