Yesterday fitted new boiler, old man is deaf scenile and stroke ridden, wife is barely coping with life.
Anyhow due to regs I had to fit a stat, and since they have a lovely home and the boiler is in a utility back addition some way from main room I fitted a programmable radia stat.
When I cam to explain it all I very quickly realised my mistake, after turning the flat upside down for the reading glasses the old lady found a magnifying glass, but she still couldn't see the little 1 figure you know, stating the Drayton rf2 is on.
I quickly realised the techknowlogy was absolutely useless to her, so I stuck it at 21 degrees on position 1, and showed her how to turn the big knob on the vokera compact between the three positions. Likewise the segmented analogue timer on the vokera is useless to frail fingered old people.
I should have just left them with the original trv controlled system and flaunted the regs.
I've given a 5 year guarantee so I can envisage many pleasant trips to Whitby, but on the plus side I have been told there is a cup of t for me any time I'm in the area.
Don 't even ask how the filling loop demonstration went.
CAN WE PLEASE HAVE ELDERLY FRIENDLY CONTROLS?
I recon if every time I'm on a job in Whitby I call round for my cup of t and check the system I'll save on my time in the long run.
Perhaps I should have let British Gas have the job at their 3.5 g's for a combiswap price they gave them.
Actually now I've fitted what Preser wants me to, I suppose I could bang the temnp on the radiostat right up to 25 and stick the trv's back in the room, so the system is changed back to what it was in the first place, it would be more efficient that way than in the hands of folk who cant comprehend, see or have dextrous ability to operate the controls I'm required to provide.
On similar note while I was breaking a sink for an old lady from church (well managed to get one tap off successfully but half way through loostening up the putty on second CRACK. New policy hit basin with lump hammer from start, saves all that unnecessary initial effort to save it.
ANYHOW, to get to point, some verty nice people fitted her heating for free, but now I have a lifetime of checking her filling pressure and topping up for free. I didn't even start to explain it.
Could we please have talking pressure guages and big levers on filling loops with very positive nighting?
Anyhow due to regs I had to fit a stat, and since they have a lovely home and the boiler is in a utility back addition some way from main room I fitted a programmable radia stat.
When I cam to explain it all I very quickly realised my mistake, after turning the flat upside down for the reading glasses the old lady found a magnifying glass, but she still couldn't see the little 1 figure you know, stating the Drayton rf2 is on.
I quickly realised the techknowlogy was absolutely useless to her, so I stuck it at 21 degrees on position 1, and showed her how to turn the big knob on the vokera compact between the three positions. Likewise the segmented analogue timer on the vokera is useless to frail fingered old people.
I should have just left them with the original trv controlled system and flaunted the regs.
I've given a 5 year guarantee so I can envisage many pleasant trips to Whitby, but on the plus side I have been told there is a cup of t for me any time I'm in the area.
Don 't even ask how the filling loop demonstration went.
CAN WE PLEASE HAVE ELDERLY FRIENDLY CONTROLS?
I recon if every time I'm on a job in Whitby I call round for my cup of t and check the system I'll save on my time in the long run.
Perhaps I should have let British Gas have the job at their 3.5 g's for a combiswap price they gave them.
Actually now I've fitted what Preser wants me to, I suppose I could bang the temnp on the radiostat right up to 25 and stick the trv's back in the room, so the system is changed back to what it was in the first place, it would be more efficient that way than in the hands of folk who cant comprehend, see or have dextrous ability to operate the controls I'm required to provide.
On similar note while I was breaking a sink for an old lady from church (well managed to get one tap off successfully but half way through loostening up the putty on second CRACK. New policy hit basin with lump hammer from start, saves all that unnecessary initial effort to save it.
ANYHOW, to get to point, some verty nice people fitted her heating for free, but now I have a lifetime of checking her filling pressure and topping up for free. I didn't even start to explain it.
Could we please have talking pressure guages and big levers on filling loops with very positive nighting?