The grumpy thread

[The Moog]

New boiler installed two years ago.

 

Never quite been that hot. Plumber then became difficult to book to come and do anything (even though had cash to chuck at him).

 

Got new plumber and found out that when new boiler installed the system wasn't flushed so is properly gunky, the boiler return temp is within 3 degrees of outlet so boiler keeps turning off.

 

Solution is powerflush at couple of hundred quid.

 

Marvellous....

[RayMK]

I was behind some sort of Vauxhall estate on a 67 plate this morning on my way to the train station. I still have the image of the brake lights burned into my retina's. They were silly bright.

 

On top of that, they have tiny indicators so you cant tell that they are turning when they are braking which is not good news for motorcyclists or when they do an emergency stop and use their hazard lights.

 

We had this 10 years ago with Golfs but they seemed to sort themselves out and get sensible indicators on the next version/facelift.

 

Put me in a bad mood from the off that today as these will be everywhere soon.

 

Also, current styling puts pathetic little indicator lamps inside the front trendy attempt at a 'face' i.e. headlamp cowling eyes.  When the headlamps are on, the indicators are almost invisible.  Or is it that people just don't indicate any more? 

[DodgeRover]

New boiler installed two years ago.

 

Never quite been that hot. Plumber then became difficult to book to come and do anything (even though had cash to chuck at him).

 

Got new plumber and found out that when new boiler installed the system wasn't flushed so is properly gunky, the boiler return temp is within 3 degrees of outlet so boiler keeps turning off.

 

Solution is powerflush at couple of hundred quid.

 

Marvellous....

British Gas by any chance? Their solution to everything is to powerflush first.

Nothing stopping you draining it down a few times yourself and manually flushing to see what you can shift, you can buy flushing agents to put in the system just like a car.

 

 

Also, current styling puts pathetic little indicator lamps inside the front trendy attempt at a 'face' i.e. headlamp cowling eyes. When the headlamps are on, the indicators are almost invisible. Or is it that people just don't indicate any more?

Nope there are several new cars where the indicators are virtually impossible to see IMO especially under braking.

[The Moog]

No a local guy who seems to know his stuff.

 

He showed me the magnetic filter and it was coated.

 

Had new rads fitted but they didn't flush the system and the system was very old.

[DVee8]

Also, current styling puts pathetic little indicator lamps inside the front trendy attempt at a 'face' i.e. headlamp cowling eyes.  When the headlamps are on, the indicators are almost invisible.  Or is it that people just don't indicate any more? 

Spot on,my x-trail has inbound indicator's in the corner on the headlight.With the DRL's on they can't be seen ,but it's ok as i have trendy built in indicator's in the door mirror's that no one looks at because they are trying to work out were the front ones are.

[purplebargeken]

Sorry if it bored you but just fuck off any way, I have no interest in your perspective.

[Talbot]

Doing a "powerflush" is utter bollocks, as you cannot get enough flow through the general pipework of the house to really loosen and remove the detritus that builds up in the system. You can do just as well with a garden hose connected to the system and draining each of the rads.

 

If the return temperature to the boiler is 3°c lower than the outlet, then there is too much bypassing going on. Usually somewhere near the 3-way valve (IE in the airing cupboard) there will be a bypass from the boiler hot outlet to the boiler cool inlet, which balances the boiler load with the load on the house. It usually needs to be only just slightly open, but if it's wide open, you will get the symptoms you're describing.

[bub2006]

Sorry if it bored you but just fuck off any way, I have no interest in your perspective.

Say what now?!

[purplebargeken]

Nowt to worry about mate lol ^^

[DodgeRover]

Just a thought, is it a single pipe system or flow and return? Also somebody hasn't fitted a TRV to every radiator have they?

[gm]

I used central heating descaler / flush on the system in the previous house, you put it in the system and run it on full belt for a while then drain out the hellish black gunk - seemed to help a bit. until the boiler broke down completely and needed replacing anyway

 

in the new house, I'm taking the radiators off the walls as I decorate and flushing them out with the garden hose, again there's a ton of black mankyness coming out. if I bugger it up, my neighbour is a heating engineer who will come and laugh at my cock ups.

[dollywobbler]

Actually, I'm going to revise that.

 

I've beaten you with your own pseudo intellectual stick and you've flounced off. Oh well.

 

 

Sorry to disappoint you, but I just went to bed, because it was bedtime. Hadn't realised it was a sodding battle. I'm not here to win points or claim victory, just putting my thoughts across. Sorry they don't agree with yours. Now, I think it's probably a good idea to leave this discussion be.

 

As heating seems to be the main Grump today, I'll join in. Our rather oddball heating system employs a heater mixing valve on the tank to control hot water. It seems to have jammed up. We've considered replacing it ourselves, but the part that's fitted is trade only, and I reckon there's a pretty fair chance we could balls it up. So, we thought we'd just ask the people who fitted it to replace it. What a palaver! Firstly, the chap claimed he'd never fitted it. Then he claimed he'd subbed the work out to someone else. Then we sent him photos of where he'd signed it off after installation and finally, we're hoping he's actually going to turn up next week.

 

We've a lot of respect for this bloke, even though the first time around, he took an age to get back to us with a quote. What he lacks in customer service/memory he makes up for with a very sound knowledge of engineering, so here's hoping next week turns grump into grin, and we can enjoy consistently hot showers again.

[mercedade]

women have the power and opportunity to do whatever they want

 

Wow.

 

No, not every woman in the UK is forced to do jobs they hate and find demeaning, or on the receiving end of a daily barrage of sexism and sleaze, or needs saving by white knights of chivalry.

 

But the idea that women are not marginalised, their experiences discounted, their value diminished by a society that overwhelmingly favours men?

 

I also don't understand the argument that people who object to things like the Presidents Club are somehow a minority ruining it for the rest - when has business ever favoured the minority? The mad scramble of those who attended to say how little they saw, and how uncomfortable the nothing they saw made them feel, isn't because they were somehow scared of 17 social justice warriors calling them names on Twitter.

 

Banning things isn't (and hasn't been) the answer - but if companies respond to commercial pressures (our saviour the free market!), then what's the grumble?

[Slartibartfast]

I don't think the grid girls debate really belongs in the grumps thread tbh. If there's really more that needs to be added to the debate then it probably ought to happen in an Open forum thread.

[The Moog]

We had boiler and all rads replaced couple of years ago. But all old pipework was left in and not flushed. They fitted everything in less than two days.

 

Not sure what system but definitely don't all have TRV fitted.

 

He has put gunk in to break everything up and will be back in couple of weeks.

 

He came recommended and seems a top guy.

[Talbot]

This mornings actual motoring grump (in a desperate attempt to get this thread back on track. No pun intended)

 

Bastard Merc took signifcantly longer to crank over and start this morning, which is all the warning signs you will ever get that one of the O-rings in the fuel system is in the process of failing, and it needs a new Viton one fitting.

 

I wouldn't mind so much, but all of the fuel system is buried under the inlet fannymould. And to take that off, you have to get to one single bastard-bolt from below, which means drive-on ramps as a bare minimum, and all the lower undertrays removing, which is just boring.

 

All for a 20p O-ring. Grrrrr.

[Slartibartfast]

inlet fannymould

Don't mention fanny, you'll set 'em off again!

 

Sounds like a bugger of a job.

[dollywobbler]

I dread something like that happening on the Lexus, given you have to remove about 16 other items to get at whatever bit needs replacing. 

[Talbot]

None of it is difficult, it's just utterly tedious. And it'll be the fourth time I've had to do it.

 

[wuvvum]

 so here's hoping next week turns grump into grin, and we can enjoy consistently hot showers again.

Could Mrs Wobbler not design and install some kind of water boiler that runs off sheep farts or something?

[Captain Furious]

Parts that I ordered off ebay so I could fit them this weekend have not turned up despite being "Fast and Free" and estimated delivery of Thursday 1st - Friday 2nd

 

So they'll probably come tomorrow, except, I put my work address as the delivery address because I would be at work on the 1st and 2nd - now they'll probably come to work when i'm at home...

[wuvvum]

More incredulity than grumpiness, but anyway...

 

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-wales-south-west-wales-42917101

[Eddie Honda]

They do that here too, but with added bread loaf humour.
 

More incredulity than grumpiness, but anyway...

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This is bread and butter to us. Car with no rear tyre stopped by Gardaí in Skerries. Then discovered car has no Insurance/Tax/NCT. Driver is toast now!

 

2:32 PM - 27 Jan 2018

 

[Exiled_Tat_Gatherer]

Stubborn old men driving (I'm a wee sprat of 45 by the way) always knowing best

 

One way system out front meaning a shedload of cars coming 'out' of the local quad..... road out, by evening, is predictably throttled with parked cars. It's just the done thing that first come first served, allow them in/out accordingly.

 

Last night - parked up with minime all OK. Another car reversing to let oncoming 4 cars through..... all so good so far.

OLD TWAT arrives, instead of waiting at the nearby junction - proceeds to almost mount the reversing car.

I explain, point, ask nicely, explain again - he will not move and I'm told immediately to FRO. 5mins - Not an inch. Byron (7yrs old) points, explains and tells him there's more of them than you and they were here first etc.... still nothing and told to get lost too (at least he didn't swear at a kid I suppose!).

Reversing driver gets out, goes mental and threatens the old codger......... I'm meanwhile, going indoors after telling him it wasn't bothering me as I was OK thanks and waiving goodbye.

Few more horns sounded, he moves back, then tries to dive for someones driveway and clobbers the back of reversing guy..........

 

It all went surreal at that point....... my next door neighbour was in a waiting car so I spoke with him and went inside.

Just had a call....... can I come down and make a statement..........

 

Apparently old codger has reported both myself, my 7yr old son! and the reversing guy for threatening behaviour etc.... that's why he was un-nerved and 'panicked' Un-fucking-believable.......

 

There goes the evening........ TWAT!

[wuvvum]

LOL at a grown man going running to the police saying he's been threatened by a 7-year-old boy.

 

Otherwise, no surprise at the general behaviour - baby boomers seem to be even worse than millennials when it comes to entitlement issues.

[AlabamaShrimp]

Where this magnetic thing on the boiler/radiators then?

[Crispian_J_Hotson]

By the Hot water cylinder.

[DodgeRover]

Or by the boiler

[Mr A Lawrence]

Just been down a YouTube dash cam rabbit hole and the one thing struck me was the motorbikes tat, when they get cut up proceed to bounce the engine off the limiter instead of using the horn!

 

Don't bikes come with horns no more?? 

[captain_70s]

More incredulity than grumpiness, but anyway...

 

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-wales-south-west-wales-42917101

I had a co-worker who once arrived at work with a 206 in a very similar way. He'd attempted to take a junction rather too fast, missed, jumped a drainage ditch and taken out a fence before landing in a field. He then located the gate and continued driving to work.

 

The rear suspension was collapsed at both sides, the bumpers where hanging off, N/S front wheel pointed straight ahead while the O/S one pointed right, two tyres were flat and one was off the rim entirely, the exhaust was dragging on the floor and the rad/fan was pushed right up against the engine as the whole front end was twisted.

It stayed in the works car park for months until the boss got tired of it and had it hidden behind a shed via forklift...

 

He did have a license/tax/insurance though which was a lot more than a lot of the folks blatting around the Aberdeenshire countryside had!