where am i?
I have trouble waking up on winter mornings.
Summer I’m OK, I leave the curtains open. I wake up no problem. The sun shining into my bedroom.
Winter’s a different matter. I find it very hard to get out of bed. Perhaps it’s that I’m too tight to have the heating on for long. Anything over 20 DegC is outrageous opulence.
My niece just started selling for Avon. I looked through the catalogue. There was an alarm clock with a light. The light brightens slowly over 20 minutes to simulate a sunrise.
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Kevin Nibbs came around yesterday to fix the boiler.
burnt out circuit board
It was the circuit board. You do not have to be an electrician to see there is something wrong with it.
It was only five years old.
The price of the new board was £150. That’s the same price as the motherboard in this computer. But the processing power to run a household boiler is minimal.
I suppose the much smaller numbers of boards for a boiler compared to a PC explains part of the price. But I still feel ripped off
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I woke up this morning, to a cold flat.
The heating had not come on. When I looked at the boiler, the overheat light was on. The fail safe had cut-out.
Normally it resets if you turn the boiler off for a minute. Not this time.
Mick Carrol came round lunch time and took a look. There was water inside, possibly from last night’s storms. It has been raining heavily all weekend.
Mick thinks the circuit board has got wet and will most likely need replacing. I need to contact Kevin Knibbs to see what he can do. Problem is, it’s an old boiler, spare parts may be difficult to find.
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My landlord, Stevenage Homes Ltd., has issued the details for “repairs” to The Towers.
They normally just issue a bill detailing the actual costs. But they are obliged in law to provide a break down if requested.
the man, the place
The last couple of years I have requested a breakdown and successfully challenged some of the costs.
Last year, there were a lot of extra charges to do with fire doors. It took over three months to resolve. I don’t think they ever found the receipts for the work carried out.
This year there was a new process in place. Things are supposed to have improved. It’s started out badly.
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