Help Arch .

[Night Train]

Poor Arch... Try the library, I've moved in for the duration, open till 8pm today and toasty warm . Theres a whole load of us propping up the radiators, and sipping soup...

I was hoping to do that at college but they have shut it due to snow so I have to sit at home waiting for the CH to click on.

 

[Globalti]

The pump on our central heating failed on Sunday. I've had a text from the plumber to say that as soon as he can get a replacement, he'll be round to install it. In the meantime, it's a tad chilly inside, but not as cold as outside, where it was -14 in my greenhouse on Sunday night.

Are you sure it's failed? They don't fully fail very often. It could have jammed; you can check by removing the little round cover and turning the slotted axle with a biggish screwdriver. If it really has failed you could easily replace the pump yourself IF whoever installed it put isolator valves each side of it.

Borrow a big wrench, shut off the valves, unscrew the two big unions and remove the pump having first switched off the electricity and disconnected the supply to the pump, noting what wire went where. Take the pump to a retailer and get a replacement. Refitting is the reverse of removal, as they say. You might need to bleed some air out, which is done by unscrewing the little cover on the end.

 

[alecstilleyedye]

I got married in 1969 - can I be an Associate Member ?

it's for people who's life started then, not ended

 

[Arch]

it's for people who's life started then, not ended

Ouch! harsh...

I'm fine, really. My fingers are a bit cold, but my feet are warming up nicely.


I've not been cold all day, thanks to good layers, despite pedalling the trike into town to pick up recycling, and then shovelling snow all day. Just a bit nippy on the face walking home, as the wind got up a bit and blew snow at me.

 

[TVC]

Are you sure it's failed? They don't fully fail very often. It could have jammed; you can check by removing the little round cover and turning the slotted axle with a biggish screwdriver. If it really has failed you could easily replace the pump yourself IF whoever installed it put isolator valves each side of it.

Borrow a big wrench, shut off the valves, unscrew the two big unions and remove the pump having first switched off the electricity and disconnected the supply to the pump, noting what wire went where. Take the pump to a retailer and get a replacement. Refitting is the reverse of removal, as they say. You might need to bleed some air out, which is done by unscrewing the little cover on the end.

Yep, I've done mine before, first time the plumber charged £200 and fixed it with a recon pump. Next time I bought a new pump from B&Q for £45 and fitted it myself in 20 minutes

Patrick, time to show off your man skills.

 

[Headgardener]

it's for people who's life started then, not ended

I was nine years into my life by then.

 

[mcshroom]

1969 - Wasn't that the middle ages or something

My last flat only had some insufficient electric heaters, a high ceiling which was also the roof and no insulation. I spent evenings wrapped up in a sleeping bag until I gave up and got a fan heater pointed at my feet

I now have gas CH - bliss

 

[Arch]

1969 - Wasn't that the middle ages or something

I thought you looked inconsiderately young when we met on the Whitby ride....

 

[craigwend]

Yes but what about her elephant?

 

[Arch]

Yes but what about her elephant?

Superb!

 

[Piemaster]

If it really has failed you could easily replace the pump yourself IF whoever installed it put isolator valves each side of it.

IF the isolating valves aren't seized solid that is, as the ones on the pump I changed last week were . Meaning I had to change them as well.

 

[Headgardener]

Arch take off those safety boots and put on some slippers as the metalwork in the boots is what is making your feet cold.

 

[Arch]

Arch take off those safety boots and put on some slippers as the metalwork in the boots is what is making your feet cold.

Yeah, I know that can happen, and it certainly did with the old ones which had lost all vestige of waterproofing. But these new ones (new like, a week old) are actually quite warm, especially with two pairs of socks...

I don't actually have any slippers. I tend to put thick socks on. Perhaps I should have asked for some for Christmas...

 

[Night Train]

I don't actually have any slippers. I tend to put thick socks on. Perhaps I should have asked for some for Christmas...

Ahhh, I feel a secret Santa coming along.

Ahhh, that's not going to be very secret now is it?

 

[Arch]

Ahhh, I feel a secret Santa coming along.

Ahhh, that's not going to be very secret now is it?

LOL!

Someone on YACF was saying their husband was telling her he'd been talking to someone at work about a certain musician and how that other person said they were going to get an album, and he told her he'd said "That's nothing, I've got the album and ticke... oh, drat!"

That was her birthday present blown....