Recent content by beccaf

Well, landlord came. Within five minutes he found the leak. He also found that the circuit board was obviously fried. Why the boiler 'expert' couldn't do that I have no idea. He's getting someone different out tomorrow, is going to file a complaint with the original company, and has offered...

I find that if you make it known you're interested they'll happily explain what they're doing.

Well, the landlord is actually trying to get someone to come and look at it this evening, so I take back anything I said! I'll let you know the outcome.

This is exactly why I try and learn about what is being done, whatever it is. And I watch what's going on and have done all my life. This way I may not be an expert, but I can at least tell usually if someone is doing a bad job. It also comes off a bit paranoid though, as I don't usually trust...

I don't want to escalate it that far quite yet, but don't worry. As the previous landlords found out, I don't put up with it if they do something stupid and I'm not afraid to persevere until it's fixed.

This is one of the better ones I've had. The last ones decided to do convert the attic while we were living there (to be fair, they fired some of the builders they used as they made SO much mess and smoked in the house even after I asked them not to, but still, we were in the last year of our...

It should indeed to be up to the landlord, yes. However he tends to be an 'I'll be round tomorrow' type person, so if I find that it's a simple solution I can do myself, or at least something temporary that means it can wait until tomorrow, I'll tend to do that. As long as it's not actually...

Definitely not, the white wire you can see goes directly into the boiler and there are no other switches around. I guess I could turn the electricity off, open up the switch and see if I can remove a fuse from there, but I'm not hugely comfortable with doing that. I will though if you think...

Nope no fuse. It looks like this (in the 'off' position):

That's the problem. There is one, but it's on, or on. Switching it does nothing and the small light in the switch also remains on! Edit: I'm presuming it does nothing, anyway. The digital programmer display remains on, too.

For the past few days the boiler (Ideal Mini) has been leaking. Today someone came out and had a look at it, couldn't find out where it was leaking from, but had the theory that it was the condensate pipe. The pipe is very hard to get to so he's going to talk to the landlord about getting...