Well, just after that last post... the boiler started working again :)
Apparently it was something electrical, most likely a tripped fuse. It will take a few hours to get the house tolerably warm again, but the radiators are beautifully hot...
Maybe i need to blog about all my problems, and they'll solve themselves within a couple of hours...
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6 comments:
glad to hear it's working! we haven't had our boiler or heater or whatever (i have no idea what's under this house) working for the last two weeks so i've been doing the same...
but i have a feeling that cold where i live is MUCH different than cold where you live.
I think in US terms most of England would be climatically equivalent to somewhere between New York and Washington DC (except with cooler, wetter summers, especially this year)...
I am glad the problem is solved, and yeah, why not blogging about another problem and see if it solves itself - can't hurt?
Wouldnt it be great if it did work!!
Most of hte UK is "mild" in climate compared to much of the US. It's really more like the southeast:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hardiness_zone
Where I live it gets up to 40°C / 104°F in the summer and -25°C / -15°F in the winter. Personally, I think I suffer from the "reverse-SAD" where the summer weather does me in (ditto hubby and kids). I consider "because it's too damn hot and sunny" to be a perfectly reasonable answer to "Why move to the UK?"
(along with things like medical coverage, education, employment or even a decent rail system).
Seriously? Bloody hell, and i thought a range of between roughly 0C and 25C (don't know how to get a degree sign on this keyboard) was beyond the bounds of reasonability...
I was only looking at average temperatures (averaged over a whole year) when i tried to estimate a rough equivalent. And i'd seen people from the US compare the UK's climate to the northeast as the nearest comparison.
The US seems to be a land of extremes in every way...
40C summers for me would be ecstasy, though. I went to Spain (the really, really dry bit of central Spain) in August a few years ago and it was about 40C. Every other English person there was wilting, and i had more energy than i've ever had before or since...
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