I'm surprised that learned and experienced people like yourself make so many stupid assumptions from such little information given.
For a start, I live in a private rented flat where the landlord has full responsibility of fixing the problem. Landlords tend to have a completely different set...
I didn't do a degree in electrical and electronic engineering without picking up some useful skills ;)
Photoshop Elements threw a strop at me. Had the program years and the first time I needed to use it in anger, it refused. Had to use the emergency MS paint to do it which is not that more...
You'll have to excuse the lack of the correct terminology here but I'll try to explain the problem as best I can.
We got an aging boiler/immersion heater system that seems to be powered from both and electric thermostat and a separate gas boiler in the living room.
Now there's little...