What Next?

[axel_knutt]

Last weekend I put a new element in the oven after it packed up on new years eve, this morning I've just had the washer dryer in bits all over the kitchen floor after it stopped drying yesterday. Thirteen years ago I had the washer, freezer, microwave, and video all pack up within about 24 hours of new year, so now I'm wondering what's next. Place your bets.....

Hotpoint don't like making things easy, do they? The've got a pair of screws in the condenser that are a good 10mm longer than they need be, with only enough room to make 1/6 of a turn with a flat spanner whilst pushing the hoses out of the way. Then there's another fixing that needs four hands with 8" long fingers. It was a two minute fix, with about an hour each way to get it all apart and back together again.

[rjb]

You haven't mentioned the central heating yet!

[MattyDeez]

They say it comes in threes.

We had a burst pipe at the back of the sink last night. Luckily caught it in time not too much damage done but the floor has to be ripped up.

Everything in our house is water related, we get new double glazing and the windows around the sides still suffer from condensation, at least not as bad as not having double glazing.

Then with all the rain, we had a water leak coming down from the roof trickling its way down near the newly installed window which we though it was.

[axel_knutt]

You haven't mentioned the central heating yet!

Condensate pipe frozen?

My old boiler has had just two thermocouples in 30 years, it's been so reliable I can't make one of the new condensing ones pay for itself! I shall probably be in for a new microwave though, it's a tatty old wreck anyway, and it's recently decided to be temperamental about whether it will open the door on cue or not.

[rjb]

Condensate pipe frozen?

My old boiler has had just two thermocouples in 30 years, it's been so reliable I can't make one of the new condensing ones pay for itself! I shall probably be in for a new microwave though, it's a tatty old wreck anyway, and it's recently decided to be temperamental about whether it will open the door on cue or not.

My mate in the cycling club is a gas engineer - he purchased an old style boiler a couple of years ago to replace his installed unit when it fails. He has allways said that modern condensing boilers are too complicated, fail regularly and the maintenance contracts which generally only cover you for the first 5 years cost more than the excess gas and maintenance of simpler older boilers. The call out's associated with modern boilers create more global warming in vehicle emmisions than that saved by a lower gas usage.