Just thought I would pop back in to tell you all of the latest thing this house has done.
Pipe under the bath spouting gallons of water, flooded kitchen, damaged plasterboard ceiling, 400 quid emergency out of hours plumber charge.
We hope to pick up the keys to the new house this coming week...
Reminds me of the last day in our weird old house.
All the furniture had been packed up and taken into storage, and the family were sitting on the living room floor waiting to hear from the estate agent, to confirm that the sale had completed.
As it was a damp and chilly day, I decided to put the heating on but the boiler wasn’t firing up, in the 11 years we lived in that property we had never had a problem with the boiler, but on the very day we leave it breaks down on us.
You could imagine how frustrating it was, I didn’t know how we stood on a legal basis, only a few weeks before I had signed legal papers to say that the boiler was in good condition, and that it had never given us any issues - added to that, we had just received a text from the buyers (who we were on good terms with) to say they were on their way round to us and should be about an hour
The house next door had exactly the same boiler, so I decided to knock there and see if the guy who lived there could offer any assistance, thankfully he was in, so he grabbed his tool bag and followed me into the kitchen to where the boiler was located.
He took the casing off the boiler and straight away said that he knew what the problem was, I asked if it could be fixed quickly, and he smiled as he turned a switch on the boiler from the off position to the on position
I was gobsmacked, I had never taken the casing off that boiler and didn’t even have the right tools to do so, the wife wouldn’t have done so nor obviously the kids.
I asked my neighbour if the switch could be activated externally from the boiler, i.e. from any other part of the house, but he said no, the only way to switch that boiler on or off, was to take the casing off and do manually.
It was the last trick the house played upon us.