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Can each day be headlined by a word (or two) and represented by a single sentence?

Will they, in turn, weave together to form a tapestry of the year?

It may be more mundane than momentous, but it’s mine to share.

Tuesday, 14 July 2015

Old Boiler

I tend to think of my oil central heating boiler as new, it having replaced the ancient one in place when we bought the house, but in reality, twelve years on, it is old and now subject to periodic malfunction, and having leaked oil in May it yesterday suffered another bout of incontinence, this time leaving a damp patch on the carpet caused by escaping water; today our local plumber / heating engineer delivered his verdict – a new washer needed in the flow control assembly, but of course you can’t just buy the uniquely shaped washer, you have to buy a whole new assembly for £85. 
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2 comments:

  1. Wilfred Andrews6 January 2016 at 18:47

    I thought boilers were supposed to give you more than 12 years service! My parents have an oil fired boiler. You can guarantee every year something goes wrong with it. It's very temperamental and they're always having to tinker with it, pressing a few magic buttons that are a mystery to everyone else apart from my parents and the plumber.

    Wilfred Andrews @ LB Plumbing and Heating

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  2. Anonymous13 June 2016 at 19:10

    When our boiler deeded that it no longer wanted to work we knew that we needed to buy a new one. After carful consideration we went with a local plumbing company who helped us chose a new boiler and installed it for us at a very competitive price. It also cost us a lot less than I originally thought.

    Lovella Cushman @ Perfection Plumbing

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