The worst though is the cold. You can take it out of doors, but indoors? No. Indoors should be toast-like.
So when I got in this afternoon, I made straight for the thermostat.
Now, I didn’t turn it right up to 21 degrees (Celsius, that is; nearly 70 in that silly system some of you insist on still using). I did that the other day and was sweltering within minutes. Having to open windows and all that.
Instead, I pushed it to 19. That, I felt, should do the job.
It didn’t, though. Half an hour later, I was still freezing. Well, not really freezing, I know. Not like the homeless or anything. Not like being outside on a Russian street. Not like the inside of a Russian leader, for that matter. But for me, subjectively, still unpleasantly cold.
So up went the thermostat to 21, after all.
Still no good though. A while later I felt as unnecessarily chilly as ever.
Great when it works. Not so good when you can't work it |
“Ah,” I thought to myself, “psychology has a big role to play in these things. I know. I’ll turn on some cheery lights and draw the curtains. Make it look cosy and it’ll feel cosy.”
For a while I kidded myself that this was working, but as my toes started issuing frostbite alerts, I decided that I could delude myself no longer. However hard I tried to convince myself that I was now warm, all the evidence was against me. I was just as cold as when I came in.
“Just as cold?” A nasty suspicion began to form in my mind. I stalked over to the central heating boiler and opened the inspection flap.
It was as I feared. The house wasn’t cold because the thermostat had cut out the heating. It was cold because my wife, in a prudent and wise economy measure, had turned the boiler over to hot water only. The heating was off.
What’s that you say? I should have checked a radiator? I’d have known at once?
Easy to be wise after the event, my friend. Why weren’t you there offering me that advice this afternoon when I needed it? And sparing me a couple of hours of perishing cold indoors?
1 comment:
That sounds like a real pain really! Especially all that suffering !
If was going to say that if you were having problems with your heating and it was a boiler problem - I know how that feels (and how much it can cost) so I was going to mention STL Heating as they got my boiler fixed and didn't charge as much as the big names which was great!
Post a Comment