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23 hours ago, Split_Pin said:

Bastarding boiler has completely  packed up and its minus 5 outside.

It's just over 2 years old and this is the second time it's broken down. Last year it needed a new circuit board and now there is an ignition fault and its leaking from somewhere around the condensate pipe. I initially  thought the pipe outlet outside was frozen and some ice did come out when I poured hot water over it but even after 5 jugfuls of hot water and rodding the pipe the boiler still won't work.

It's under warranty with the manufacturer Baxi so I called them and they cant send an engineer until FUCKING WEDNESDAY. They can get fucked with the Covid excuse, more precautions does not mean less engineers. The bint then had the brass neck to try and sell me more stuff. 

So no heating  or HW until then.

Anyone thinking of getting a Baxi boiler (sometimes known s Potterton) just don't. It was all we could afford at the time but I should have begged stole or borrowed a bit extra and got a Worcester. 

We need Paulplom back - although he did always recommend Baxi.

Mine is not at all well, bubbling and gurgling, losing pressure, water (icicles now) down the wall from the pressure release valve.  Had to bleed the upstairs radiators several time and the downstairs ones take forever to heat up.  Have to top up nearly every day before it fires up.

Always used to pack up just before Christmas but has been fine for two years until recently.

I was planning to have a Baxi replace it - it is a Chaffoteaux & Maury and pretty much obsolete.

My daughter had a Worcester Bosch fitted which doesn't fill me with confidence.

Was going to have one fitted last summer but of course it was running perfectly then.

Today's grump us that I was leaning down to pick up the phone charger lead that I dropped on the floor.  My office chair shot away from under me and dumped me on the corner of the bed (wood) and I now have bruised ribs, this happened yesterday evening and it was a bugger to get to sleep as I mostly sleep on that side but continually turn over as my arms start to hurt after a while.

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On 2/12/2021 at 11:17 PM, Split_Pin said:

Bastarding boiler has completely  packed up and its minus 5 outside.

It's just over 2 years old and this is the second time it's broken down. Last year it needed a new circuit board and now there is an ignition fault and its leaking from somewhere around the condensate pipe. I initially  thought the pipe outlet outside was frozen and some ice did come out when I poured hot water over it but even after 5 jugfuls of hot water and rodding the pipe the boiler still won't work.

It's under warranty with the manufacturer Baxi so I called them and they cant send an engineer until FUCKING WEDNESDAY. They can get fucked with the Covid excuse, more precautions does not mean less engineers. The bint then had the brass neck to try and sell me more stuff. 

So no heating  or HW until then.

Anyone thinking of getting a Baxi boiler (sometimes known s Potterton) just don't. It was all we could afford at the time but I should have begged stole or borrowed a bit extra and got a Worcester. 

Our Baxi is 9 years old and has been problematic over the years. I chatted to Paul from here about it previously and it turns out it's one of their 'budget boilers' - internal fittings are plastic rather than brass and it's generally a bit shit. It's currently on borrowed time after it had to be repaired once again recently after a plastic joint ruptured and it pissed mains pressure out onto the kitchen floor and under the hall laminate. Which was nice.

Paul quoted that he only fits Worcester. I think that's what we'll replace this heap of crap with eventually. 

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Possibly.  It did have a new heat exchanger three years ago, leaking - boiler is upstairs and we had a waterfall on the staircase.

It has had loads of work done on it, regular fails every year except the last two, after a minor catastrophe caused by a nitwit 'servicing' it.

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i had to condemn the Baxi Bermuda back boiler here 3 years ago.

it has been replaced by a Bosch Worcester thing which, touch wood has been ok.

it got to the stage that the Baxi sometimes would work ,and sometimes would not work.

sometimes it would try and start, and then tripout, though i could then get it going by pressing the reset button.

it got to the stage where it just would not go at all. in december, and the week before xmas.

great.

bloody marvelous.

i got the plumber Mark to come and look at it. we tried a new thermocouple, a new pcb, a second hand burner tray, some other bits which i cannot remember, basically just about everything that could be changed, was changed and then changed back, cos none of it helped

and yes, some bits were second hand cos there was very little parts supply for it even then, and it was only, i think 10 or 12 years old. and after all this buggering about, the damn thing just would not go.

it would try to start, it would briefly fire even and then just die.

and mark never did get to the bottom of why it wouldn't work!!

which i thought was shit, cos the boiler the house came with, also a Baxi, but one with a fire in a  teak box (younger viewers need to ask their parents) which still had excellent parts supply!!

well  we ended up heating the water with the emersion heater, and the house with the gas fire and a calor gas heater thing (don't ever use one of them a lot cos of the water that it throws out, and the risks of CO poisoning...) until Kerry, just out of idle curiosity, tried the central heating.

and it started! 

so we turned it on to all day, and just left it running.

but its day was  done. in the new year, we got it changed as soon as the plumber had an opening, we got it changed.

well its still there, behind the gas fire in the front room, just its now isolated and if, or when i decorate in here then i'll get it pulled out, maybe!

irritatingly, Kerrys folks house has a Baxi back boiler, but its an older design but a similar vintage to the one i had, but that one had with a mechanical thermostat, no pcb and the rest, and that one is still going strong!!

all modern shit is, erm shit......

 

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On 13/02/2021 at 18:54, Remspoor said:

I am sorry to say that someone is paying for you to drive your car.  I expect you would not be so smug if the recharging was not free.

One day you will get a rude awakening. The free will mean with enough EVs on the road  the cars queuing for a recharge The other possibility is that the free ones will disappear in the end.

https://www.bbc.com/news/business-55941244

Oh,  and get rid of your crap tee shirt. how can anyone love range anxiety?

It's probably a response to attitudes towards electric vehicles like yours.  

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22 hours ago, myglaren said:

We need Paulplom back - although he did always recommend Baxi.

Mine is not at all well, bubbling and gurgling, losing pressure, water (icicles now) down the wall from the pressure release valve.  Had to bleed the upstairs radiators several time and the downstairs ones take forever to heat up.  Have to top up nearly every day before it fires up.

Always used to pack up just before Christmas but has been fine for two years until recently.

I was planning to have a Baxi replace it - it is a Chaffoteaux & Maury and pretty much obsolete.

My daughter had a Worcester Bosch fitted which doesn't fill me with confidence.

Was going to have one fitted last summer but of course it was running perfectly then.

Today's grump us that I was leaning down to pick up the phone charger lead that I dropped on the floor.  My office chair shot away from under me and dumped me on the corner of the bed (wood) and I now have bruised ribs, this happened yesterday evening and it was a bugger to get to sleep as I mostly sleep on that side but continually turn over as my arms start to hurt after a while.

Sounds as though the diaphragm in the pressure vessel has lost air. 

When this happens the water is ejected via the pressure relief valve when the system heats up.

You may be able to fix it just by using a bike pump to top up the diaphragm. If not you will need a new pressure vessel.

 

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Grumpy? Not me.  Wife is on lots of pain, there's something wrong with her thumb, on a scale of one to 10 where 1 is a paper cut, and 10 is child birth and 11 is being kicked in the nutz by a herd of rhinos charging you.  She reckons 12.

On the one hand I'm trying my best, to help her, but on the other I wondered if I should book her into dignitas?  I think she would have willingly gone this evening. 

 

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Potterton Apollo 30.. Just coming up for its 30th birthday, been good all the way through, treated it to a digital programmer for its 28th birthday, the original pin type had been sticking occasionally for a while, got a digital one from a local FB group brand new for a fiver and a few beers to my corgi/gassafe mate to fit it when he serviced the boiler.... 

It will probably blow up now 🤞🏽🤦‍♂️

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Bastarding interview for the replacement for my head of department has made me grumpy all week. I have been invited to interview but I am certain my boss is going to pick someone young, female and attractive in preference to someone like me with vastly more experience.  

I don't care what sex, sexuality, colour or creed people are as it's completely irrelevant to their competence to do the job, but I find something a bit sinister about a white middle aged man who prefers to employ young women and passes this off as redressing the balance and gender equality. In reality it makes him look more like their sugar daddy.

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2 hours ago, warch said:

Bastarding interview for the replacement for my head of department has made me grumpy all week. I have been invited to interview but I am certain my boss is going to pick someone young, female and attractive in preference to someone like me with vastly more experience.  

I don't care what sex, sexuality, colour or creed people are as it's completely irrelevant to their competence to do the job, but I find something a bit sinister about a white middle aged man who prefers to employ young women and passes this off as redressing the balance and gender equality. In reality it makes him look more like their sugar daddy.

Got proof? Employment tribunal and payout £££, especially if you've been there a while. Sex discrimination is against the law.

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8 hours ago, warch said:

Bastarding interview for the replacement for my head of department has made me grumpy all week. I have been invited to interview but I am certain my boss is going to pick someone young, female and attractive in preference to someone like me with vastly more experience.  

I don't care what sex, sexuality, colour or creed people are as it's completely irrelevant to their competence to do the job, but I find something a bit sinister about a white middle aged man who prefers to employ young women and passes this off as redressing the balance and gender equality. In reality it makes him look more like their sugar daddy.

I’m having this nonsense at the moment.  It seems having spent two years doing mortgages about 15 years ago and having a wealth of banking and finance experience, it’s not recent enough,  

Nothing has changed in that time.  You want a house?  Do you have a deposit?  Can you afford it?  Then fine.  Are you called Claude the repeat Fraudster who never repays money he borrows?  Maybe try the Bank next door....

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4 hours ago, Parky said:

I’m having this nonsense at the moment.  It seems having spent two years doing mortgages about 15 years ago and having a wealth of banking and finance experience, it’s not recent enough,  

Nothing has changed in that time.  You want a house?  Do you have a deposit?  Can you afford it?  Then fine.  Are you called Claude the repeat Fraudster who never repays money he borrows?  Maybe try the Bank next door....

Retail banking is fucked anyway, people have the gumption these days to search online for things. Nobody goes into a bank these days even a fossil like me doesn’t. You need to specialise in something like equity release or whatever. 

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16 minutes ago, barefoot said:

Grump - People who give their cars names.

Get a fucking dog or something.

Don’t give things names that you might have to cut their lives short if they become a nuisance or you need to eat them. It colours your judgement. Before you know it you are spunking £800 refreshing Barry the Zafiras suspension when what you rationally should do is shoot it in the side of the head. But then I’m not a terribly sentimental person about these things. 

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20 hours ago, loserone said:

It's probably a response to attitudes towards electric vehicles like yours.  

Wait a minute... Where did I say I hate EVs? I just hate the attitude in  that they think they  drive the vehicle for free.  It is not free just that the facilities (at the moment) are not charged for.  I said that  will end, when EVs become popular. The whole article is egotistical, including the tee shit.

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44 minutes ago, Remspoor said:

Wait a minute... Where did I say I hate EVs? I just hate the attitude in  that they think they  drive the vehicle for free.  It is not free just that the facilities (at the moment) are not charged for.  I said that  will end, when EVs become popular. The whole article is egotistical, including the tee shit.

It is ok to dislike them, in fact the other day I saw an electric Porsche, as it silently whooshed away I just thought ‘what’s the point...’ the whole point of a Porsche to me was the sound of the flat engine starting up and purring away, this electric device just felt like exactly that. A device. A washing machine or a Morphy Richards toaster.

I know we’ll all end up in them one day in much the same way we’ll all end up dribbling and incontinent. I just can’t really get very excited by the prospect of having one. Maybe that would change in the future if they brought out retro styled old cars but with an electric motor like the Renault 5 concept as opposed anodyne crap that Elon Musk thinks everyone wants. 

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2 minutes ago, sierraman said:

It is ok to dislike them, in fact the other day I saw an electric Porsche, as it silently whooshed away I just thought ‘what’s the point...’ the whole point of a Porsche to me was the sound of the flat engine starting up and purring away, this electric device just felt like exactly that. A device. A washing machine or a Morphy Richards toaster.

I know we’ll all end up in them one day in much the same way we’ll all end up dribbling and incontinent. I just can’t really get very excited by the prospect of having one. Maybe that would change in the future if they brought out retro styled old cars but with an electric motor like the Renault 5 concept as opposed anodyne crap that Elon Musk thinks everyone wants. 

Have you actually been in any electric car? You might find your attitude changes dramatically as some of them are hugely impressive, I was blown away the first time I went in one and that was a relatively humble Vauxhall Ampera, I'd love a Taycan or Tesla.

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53 minutes ago, Remspoor said:

Wait a minute... Where did I say I hate EVs? I just hate the attitude in  that they think they  drive the vehicle for free.  It is not free just that the facilities (at the moment) are not charged for.  I said that  will end, when EVs become popular. The whole article is egotistical, including the tee shit.

Didn't you get the memo? The only correct attitude towards EVs is unquestioning adulation for them and all who drive them. This idea of finding out about things for yourself and then making your mind up is so last century.

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