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shewhomustNot one but two gas engineers turned up yesterday at lunchtime. They took readings, isolated things, took more readings, and announced that in fact there was nothing wrong with our pipes, and nothing wrong with the boiler, and these could be reconnected. Which they did, so we now have heating and, better still, hot water.
But they also detected a drop in pressure - they didn't call it a leak, though surely that's what it is - at the gas cooker. It's not a very big drop: they told us that it is within permitted tolerances, and if it had simply been detected in the normal run of events, we'd be allowed to carry on. But because the process started with someone smelling gas, even though that was nowhere near the cooker, and the faulty pipe had been replaced, the cooker has been condemned.
So there is some serious shopping in my future. I had thought this would be the time we would give up on cooking with gas, and buy an electric cooker, butdurham_rambler tells me that we can't simply buy an electric cooker and plug it in, it requires a supply of electricity which would demand extensive re-wiring. Even replacing like for like, we need to find a cooker which will fit into the space vacated by the old one, which is now smaller than the common size. So that's going to be fun.
In better news, the electrician had a cancellation and arrived this morning to complete the installation of our EV charger. This was not as simple as it should have been, because the charge point that had been installed turned out to befaulty, and it took the electrician quite a while to conince the supplier of this. But he succeeded, anddurham_rambler has charged the car at our own kerbside.
It turns out, too, that I was mistaken in thinking D. planned to visit us this weekend, arriving today. That visit is in a month's time - and it's in my diary for both sets of dates. I hesitate to call it good news - it's always good to see him. But it takes some pressure off right now, and makes for a more comfortable visit when it does happen. Meanwhile, the wine racks, which were moved out of the cellar to give access to the electrician, can be reinstated.
So it's progress, overall.
But they also detected a drop in pressure - they didn't call it a leak, though surely that's what it is - at the gas cooker. It's not a very big drop: they told us that it is within permitted tolerances, and if it had simply been detected in the normal run of events, we'd be allowed to carry on. But because the process started with someone smelling gas, even though that was nowhere near the cooker, and the faulty pipe had been replaced, the cooker has been condemned.
So there is some serious shopping in my future. I had thought this would be the time we would give up on cooking with gas, and buy an electric cooker, but
durham_rambler tells me that we can't simply buy an electric cooker and plug it in, it requires a supply of electricity which would demand extensive re-wiring. Even replacing like for like, we need to find a cooker which will fit into the space vacated by the old one, which is now smaller than the common size. So that's going to be fun.In better news, the electrician had a cancellation and arrived this morning to complete the installation of our EV charger. This was not as simple as it should have been, because the charge point that had been installed turned out to befaulty, and it took the electrician quite a while to conince the supplier of this. But he succeeded, and
durham_rambler has charged the car at our own kerbside.It turns out, too, that I was mistaken in thinking D. planned to visit us this weekend, arriving today. That visit is in a month's time - and it's in my diary for both sets of dates. I hesitate to call it good news - it's always good to see him. But it takes some pressure off right now, and makes for a more comfortable visit when it does happen. Meanwhile, the wine racks, which were moved out of the cellar to give access to the electrician, can be reinstated.
So it's progress, overall.
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Date: 2023-09-21 05:24 pm (UTC)no subject
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Date: 2023-09-21 06:14 pm (UTC)Good news on gas supply & EV charging, though.
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Date: 2023-09-22 09:27 am (UTC)no subject
Date: 2023-09-22 10:11 pm (UTC)The fit-the-existing-space problem sure is frustrating! We had to replace our cooktop a few months ago, and most of them were too big for our cutout. (Stone countertop, so not adjusting on that end!) In the end we got one from the same manufacturer as the current one that would either just barely fit or just barely not fit; we figured our odds on any fudge factor were better if they matched what we were replacing. And the new one fit, hurrah. But boy was that aggravating! I hope you have an easier time of finding a replacement that fits.
(I don't know how wiring works where you are, but for us, too, we would have had to run expensive new wiring to switch from gas to electric, so we chose not to.)
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Date: 2023-09-23 11:20 am (UTC)We have found - and ordered - something that will do. It's a big enough purchase that I'd like to be excited about it, but I'm not. It's not what I want, but it will do. And it will be good to be able to cook properly!
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Date: 2023-09-24 08:20 pm (UTC)Being able to cook properly will be good, yes. Mine isn't what I would have gotten if I'd had real choice, but I've gotten used to it. It suffices.
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Date: 2023-09-28 10:53 am (UTC)no subject
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