The grumpy thread

[Remspoor]

1 hour ago, Datsuncog said:

Crikey, seems like no-one's having much luck with their heating at the minute!

The old boiler that was semi-installed when we moved in was looking pretty corroded around the stubs too, which is why we bit the bullet and got a new system. 

The extent of it was only visible once we had it pulled out. It was an indoor boiler, but installed outside, so it's probably not surprising...

Hope you get sorted - it's an absolute pain, but as with us, I'd sooner it failed now than when there's six inches of snow on the ground.

Yes, and that's a rather lively ongoing conversation I'm having with the supplier.

I found the packaging, which claims a 3-yr guarantee.

We're not in the EU anymore, so their Europe-wide consumer contract guarantees now aren't enforceable... but the Consumer Rights Act 2015 should still hold true here.

I don't think so, no. I had a look at my policy documents and while they'll cover an 'emergency plumber call out', I'd have to pay for any parts needed.

Both of us are kinda used to being cold, so while it isn't really ideal, we'll probably not die just yet.

The electricians are back today to finish off the kitchen wiring, so with the front door and the attic hatch wide open, the place would be freezing anyway...

EU regulations have not been removed form the UK. Boris Truss has more on their him/she plate than repeal 1000s of statutory laws. I would perhaps seek some help from a consumers organisation.

[artdjones]

4 hours ago, Datsuncog said:

Hope you get sorted - it's an absolute pain, but as with us, I'd sooner it failed now than when there's six inches of snow on the ground.

Thanks, luckily when we built the house the heating was run by a wood/coal stove. Ten years later we got lazy and got a plumber friend to splice in a second hand oil boiler as well, the now expired one. But the stove is still there, so I capped the oil boiler off, refilled the system and we are warm for the moment.

[richardmorris]

Not grumpy really, but the rob burrow prog, living with mnd has me in tears.

[goosey]

Had to drag my Jeep out the way so I could get to my trailer as the immobiliser has finally failed completely, it’s raining im soaking wet and I’m pissed off. Thinking about what to do with it but it’s probably going to involve “spares or repair” 

[SteersWithThrottle]

F*&@#$% diseasel EGR valves!!!  🤬

[Talbot]

On 10/18/2022 at 4:01 PM, Datsuncog said:

So, after spending four nights trying to shock an airlock out of the system and emptying basin after basin of water out of the radiators, followed by much clambering around the attic to determine which pipes were getting hot and when, it turns out that the culprit was... the circulating pump.

Despite being a mere three months old, with maybe ten hours of use on it, it seems that it's failed somehow.

It took the plumber a while to diagnose the fault, as power's getting to it and it seemed to be turning okay - yet the water just isn't being moved around the system, so plainly something's awry.

A couple of thoughts:

The impeller has possibly come off the driveshaft.  Not uncommon as they are only a press-fit.  The motor is probably running but the impeller isn't.  If there isn't an audible churn of water when the motor starts, the impeller likely isn't turning.

The valves either side of a Domestic circulator are designed to allow it to be changed reasonably easily.  Undo the two large nuts and they slip back out of the way, and the pump can slide out from between two flat-face flanges.  A new one was about £60, so it might not be worth the argument with any company over it.. you'll waste 10hrs and maybe get a £60 pump out of it.  Just not worth the argument.  It shouldn't be true, but reality gets in the way.

[chaseracer]

8 minutes ago, Talbot said:

...it might not be worth the argument with any company over it.. you'll waste 10hrs and maybe get a £60 pump out of it.  Just not worth the argument.  It shouldn't be true, but reality gets in the way.

But deffo sign them up with the Grundfos marketing department...

[iainrcz]

A rather exciting start to the first shift of the week.

[Noel Tidybeard]

On 20/10/2022 at 21:12, richardmorris said:

Not grumpy really, but the rob burrow prog, living with mnd has me in tears.

that would be hard to watch at the mo as one of the family has just succumbed to that!

 

#stilldoingitforwayne

https://www.facebook.com/mndhousefoundation/

[Datsuncog]

7 hours ago, Talbot said:

A couple of thoughts:

The impeller has possibly come off the driveshaft.  Not uncommon as they are only a press-fit.  The motor is probably running but the impeller isn't.  If there isn't an audible churn of water when the motor starts, the impeller likely isn't turning.

The valves either side of a Domestic circulator are designed to allow it to be changed reasonably easily.  Undo the two large nuts and they slip back out of the way, and the pump can slide out from between two flat-face flanges.  A new one was about £60, so it might not be worth the argument with any company over it.. you'll waste 10hrs and maybe get a £60 pump out of it.  Just not worth the argument.  It shouldn't be true, but reality gets in the way.

Yeah, I bought a new pump yesterday and the plumber fitted it - same as the one I got at the previous house, which gave us no bother.

After a week of no heat (and pretty bad weather), getting something functioning was more of a priority than anything else. With all the loft insulation peeled back and holes drilled in the ceilings to fit lights and radiator piping (holes in the wall as well), it's been bitterly, finger-numbingly cold.

The old (new) pump is in the garage, but haven't had a chance to look at it yet - because the pump was right up against the burner inside the housing, and they both come on at the same time, there was no way to hear whether the water was churning over the roar of the rest of the unit.

But I'll have a look and see if I can see anything awry - the plumber reckoned it was an electronic fault, but we'll see.

I'm not expecting a refund from Peerless, but a new component breaking after less than 10 hours service is a bit shit. At best, they might send me a replacement which I can keep on a shelf for years and years...

[Remspoor]

7 hours ago, Datsuncog said:

there was no way to hear whether the water was churning over the roar of the rest of the unit.

Glad to read the news in the rest of the post. 

Advise for next time or others with pump issues. Undo the top cap of the pump. A quarter of a turn maybe half a turn and you will see if the pump is running or not by the water flow coming out of the cap.

Now a statement of the obvious, the water coming out of the bleed cap may be hot!

[GMcD]

I'm normally quite patient but the Cavalier is doing my fucking nut in. I cannot seem to get the exhaust into any sort of position were it will not rattle against at least one section of the floor, tank or shielding. I managed to strip one of the threads on the downpipe. Then I punched myself right on the nose causing it to bleed as my spanner slipped.

Icing on the cake is a drip of coolant at the front of the engine which very much appears to be from the waterpump I just installed.

Fucked off big style.

Away to watch the circus this afternoon.. maybe watching some other clowns might cheer me up....

[Zelandeth]

13 hours ago, iainrcz said:

A rather exciting start to the first shift of the week.

Well that looks like an expensive few minutes!

[iainrcz]

2 hours ago, Zelandeth said:

Well that looks like an expensive few minutes!

Yes. I have an inkling more so than management think.

It is, or was, a pump to convey material.

Until it turned in to a top fuel dragster.

[New POD]

10 minutes ago, iainrcz said:

Yes. I have an inkling more so than management think.

It is, or was, a pump to convey material.

Until it turned in to a top fuel dragster.

I'd love to see the near-miss report. Looks like something bad could have happened, but luckily didn't. 

[iainrcz]

1 minute ago, New POD said:

I'd love to see the near-miss report. Looks like something bad could have happened, but luckily didn't. 

It happened literally minutes in to our shift. I'd restarted it to pull material and then gone outside to do a job, a few minutes later thick smoke was floating around the outside of the building. I went in and it was billowing out of the enclosure.

I've no idea what caused it, but it escalated rather quickly.

 

[Zelandeth]

54 minutes ago, iainrcz said:

It happened literally minutes in to our shift. I'd restarted it to pull material and then gone outside to do a job, a few minutes later thick smoke was floating around the outside of the building. I went in and it was billowing out of the enclosure.

I've no idea what caused it, but it escalated rather quickly.

 

At a guess, material over time finding its way into the belt side, then either the pump jammed up or the belt let go in a way that generated a lot of heat...material then caught - whoosh.  Hard to say for certain without actually examining it closely though.

[iainrcz]

It doesn't help that it seems acceptable to run with the doors open and a fan blowing at it  on hot days. 

I didn't say that though.

[Zelandeth]

Does rather suggest there are some thermal issues there to start with!

[Bren]

Changed the oil on the BMW but ran out of time to put the two undertrays on. They are the definition of overkill.

And now we have torrential rain. The car can stay where it is - my days of getting piss wet through working on cars are long gone.

 

[Dick Cheeseburger]

6 minutes ago, Bren said:

Changed the oil on the BMW but ran out of time to put the two undertrays on. They are the definition of overkill.

And now we have torrential rain. The car can stay where it is - my days of getting piss wet through working on cars are long gone.

 

Pela type pump makes this job infinitely easier I find. Don't know which BMW you've got, but my oil filter is top access cartridge job so the whole job can be done in an upright position!

[junkyarddog]

Local farmers just had all the hedgerows cut around where I live.

It now means all the local narrow roads are covered in s carpet of these!

Fucking wonderful.🙄

[Bren]

20 minutes ago, Dick Longbridge said:

Pela type pump makes this job infinitely easier I find. Don't know which BMW you've got, but my oil filter is top access cartridge job so the whole job can be done in an upright position!

Oil filter is underneath. Car takes 8L of oil - too much for my pela. The undertray has a hatch but I prefer to take it off to see if anything is leaking.

[GrumpiusMaximus]

I’m glad moderns have automatic braking otherwise that twat in the Qashqai at the roundabout next to Greenhithe station would have gone right into my off side rear quarter.  No Mr. Thundercunt, l wasn’t going left.  I was going straight on.  That’s why I wasn’t indicating to go left but was in the left-hand lane.

Absolutely astonishing.

[Remspoor]

Activists seek to block Christmas displays of alcohol in the supermarket .

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New rules aimed at reducing sales of chocolate are expected to result in supermarkets filling displays at the front of the stores with beer, wine and champagne this Christmas.

[MikeR]

8 hours ago, GrumpiusMaximus said:

I’m glad moderns have automatic braking otherwise that twat in the Qashqai at the roundabout next to Greenhithe station would have gone right into my off side rear quarter.  No Mr. Thundercunt, l wasn’t going left.  I was going straight on.  That’s why I wasn’t indicating to go left but was in the left-hand lane.

Absolutely astonishing.

having just been down to the Licky hills area I came across 2 little old darlings ,with in a few minutes ..

the first had not a clue what she was doing at a roundbout so we all stopped  ,whilst she went on her merry way , with a BMW stuck behind her !

the 2nd joining the M5 from the A38 , the little old dear to my left was confused , so when the lights changed I held back , and she went right across the M5 exit ,

and some people gave me a bad look !! , what was I supposed to do,  T bone her car!

[GeorgeB]

8 hours ago, GrumpiusMaximus said:

I’m glad moderns have automatic braking otherwise that twat in the Qashqai at the roundabout next to Greenhithe station would have gone right into my off side rear quarter.  No Mr. Thundercunt, l wasn’t going left.  I was going straight on.  That’s why I wasn’t indicating to go left but was in the left-hand lane.

Absolutely astonishing.

"would have gone right into my off side rear quarter"?

Sounds as though the "twat" was on the roundabout and you pulled out in front of them?

 

 

[chaseracer]

2 minutes ago, GeorgeB said:

"would have gone right into my off side rear quarter"?

Sounds as though the "twat" was on the roundabout and you pulled out in front of them?

Or trying to turn left from the right hand lane.  But neither of us were there...

[GrumpiusMaximus]

27 minutes ago, GeorgeB said:

"would have gone right into my off side rear quarter"?

Sounds as though the "twat" was on the roundabout and you pulled out in front of them?

Nope.  They entered the roundabout slightly after I did, in the right-hand lane and tried to turn trun left -  straight into the rear quarter of me making the assumption that I was turning left, so what @chaseracersaid.

[Fumbler]

On 16/10/2022 at 12:17, Zelandeth said:

Been back in Milton Keynes for about two hours now after a holiday in the US for two weeks.

I am already losing the will to live again and feel like I never left.  Few things highlight how unpleasant a place is than not being there for a while.  Why people just seem to go so far out their way to be assholes here I just don't understand.

Funnily enough I had the same feeling when I came home after my two weeks away in WI.