You Dont Know What You've Got...

nailit | 18:19 Wed 21st Sep 2022 | ChatterBank

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Till its gone..

Got no hot water until the council
get a plumber on Friday!
Reported that my boiler had given up the ghost Friday just gone.
Was told that the earliest that they could get to me was Tuesday.
Working TUE, WED, THUR...
So Friday it is!

(IF, they decide to turn up...doubtful going on past experience)

God, I would give anything for a bath right now.
A strip was with a kettle of water just isnt the same.

F A O Tigerlily

Apparently, The Death Of Queen Elizabeth....

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Tilly2

When are they bulldozing your block, Nails? Any news about that?

tiggerblue10

That happened to me one January and I had no hot water or heating for a couple of days until I went to stay at my parents. Boiler packed up and had to fork out £600 for a new one!

nailit

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//When are they bulldozing your block, Nails? Any news about that? //
Going to be an announcement in January Tills.
One of my neigbours went to a meeting in Stoke about it.
Asked a few awkward questions and basically the response was if people failed to leave their was f all they could do about it?

My flat may be on stilts in years to come ;-)

pastafreak

600?...that's all?
Just hope the weather stays mild nailit.
Fill your sink or the largest pot you've got with multiple kettles of boiling water. Combined with cold you can have a decent wash...use a pot to pour it over yourself. It works.

brian j john

Don't it always seem to go
That you don't know what you got 'til it's gone
They paved paradise and put up a parking lot

nailit

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First time in years that Ive grown a beard...
(To save on kettle use!!)
4 full kettles a night to have a strip wash in the bath at the mo.

Last time that I was this desperate was in the clink when we used to get a shower once a fortnight (If we were lucky)
And I had to have a SINK wash, and wash my 'bits' in a

Tilly2

Unsettling times for you then, Nails.
It's a shame there are no more 'Baths' you can go to whilst you wait for your boiler repair.

nailit

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err, sink!!!

Tilly2

@Bits in ?...a bucket?

nailit

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@Bits in ?...a bucket?
lol,
posted (somehow) before id finished....

nailit

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My back's in pieces,
cracked my ankle against a stack of crates,
arm's are killing me from lifting 20+ kg crates all day

Just want a hot bath
and relax.

david small

Been there nails. Myself, my wife, and four kids. No hot water, kettles and pans up the stairs for shared bath. One bar electric fire. Wife in tears and overcoat crying because so cold.

nailit

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//Been there nails.//
Not moaning about it as such.
Just a bit gauling when landlords (albeit)
the council, dont honor their contracts.
BUT because its council it
isnt important.

naomi24

Oddly enough, nailit, people who own their homes and have to pay separately for plumbers and builders and electricians to come and fix things don’t always get immediate service either. We cope the same as everyone else in that situation has to cope. You’ll cope.

tiggerblue10

Pasta, that was in 1999 and one of the cheaper boilers. These days they can cost in excess of 2k.