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So, it's 3am and we're running every hot tap in the house...

posted by [personal profile] panik at 09:55am on 06/09/2009 under , ,
Oh yes indeedy, damn stove played the same damn trick on us the old one would occasionally and, though thoroughly damped down as low as it damn well goes, churned out so much hot water the tanks boiled and the pump started screaming like a prize sow in labour. Only one option when that happens and that's to get up and drain off the hot water - scaldingly hot it was too, almost boiling. Made me weep to throw it away rather than magic it into a soothing bath but it was 3am, you know?

Never really got back to sleep.

Shattered.

Damn.
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posted by [identity profile] epistrophia.livejournal.com at 10:21am on 06/09/2009
Oh, I feel your pain. Our cottage has a back boiler, and we'd never had one before so it didn't really register that the water was boiling in the tank until the day when, at 4am, the tank gave up the ghost and emptied itself over the living-room floor. Thank God it was on the ground floor. And that we have floorboards not carpets.

If there is so much as a gurgle now, we both leap for the nearest tap.

(And it's not as though I can even have a bath - there is a better than 50% chance that I'd end up in the living room. Our house, she is fragile...)
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Our house, she is fragile..

posted by [identity profile] gillyp.livejournal.com at 10:46am on 06/09/2009
Meep! omg! Never had anything like that thank all the gods, though we once had a spring rise in the kitchen.

Our bathroom has the best floor in the house; we wanted stone tiles so we had to have a 3/4" layer of plywood screwed down first, it's the only floor that doesn't squeak and bend alarmingly. *g* The bedroom's solid enough but the boards are riddled with (now dead) woodworm, not pretty enough to polish and see alas.

We feel each others pain. ::huggles the epistrophia::

The stove is certainly efficient but lawks a lawdy, I wish it wouldn't *do* that, you know? Now we know it's working properly, we're letting it go out. We have every window open and it's like August in the Caribbean in here. :o)

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posted by [identity profile] fluterbev.livejournal.com at 11:16am on 06/09/2009
Yikes! That all sounds rather alarming!
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posted by [identity profile] gillyp.livejournal.com at 02:44pm on 06/09/2009
Merely par for the course around these parts, alas. ::she sighed tiredly::
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posted by [identity profile] snailbones.livejournal.com at 12:25pm on 06/09/2009


Meep! Why do water emergencies always happen in the middle of the night?

Come winter, when the rest of us are shivering and going to bed in overcoats, you're going to be so snuggy warm...

::pets you soothingly::



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You're going to be so snuggy warm...

posted by [identity profile] gillyp.livejournal.com at 02:48pm on 06/09/2009
Oh yeah, if the current unbearable tropic clime in this house is anything to go by. It's baked lovely bread (Mark's put a fresh batch in) and a most goodly moussaka. ::nods:: It can lay off the hot water though for verily, we hath a more than goodly amount.

Why do water emergencies always happen in the middle of the night?
The same vengeful god that makes sure boilers only fail on Christmas Eve and pipes always burst when you're away. I wish I could work out how to appease them. Any ideas?
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posted by [identity profile] snailbones.livejournal.com at 03:36pm on 06/09/2009


Any ideas?

Ack, no, I wish I had... a water spirit has haunted my family for years now, and I've yet to figure a way to bribe it/him/her/whatever. I talk to it sweetly, and try never to cuss out loud at jammed stop cocks and such like. I'm sure a fit of temper would only encourage it *g*

So - you'll be starting a new sauna business soon then?



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posted by [identity profile] cerebralpig.livejournal.com at 01:15pm on 06/09/2009
Crikey! That sounds scary. What kind of aga do you have?
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posted by [identity profile] gillyp.livejournal.com at 02:49pm on 06/09/2009
A Rayburn Royal, solid fuel, 5 radiator jobbie. It get the job done for sure, some might say, a little too well.
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