Things we have learnt about Ireland today.
1. Pubs are open on Bank Holiday Monday.
2. DIY places, not so much.
I will try again this afternoon.
Today's to-do list consists of:
1. Fix the sink
2. Ask the internet why my radiator is leaking and solve it
3. Cook Thai Red Curry
4. Do the ironing (hopefully with a silly afternoon film somewhere, possibly in black and white - if the fates love me enough).
Update on today (rage)
1. The garden centre eventually opened. It does not do the bits I need to fix the sink. It does not do anything.
2. In tightening the gland valve on my radiator I sheared the nut and it fell off
2a. Placed a bowl under the valve and wrapped valve in old tea towel, ends resting in bowl.
2a (i) Pressure in central heating system is slowly dropping.
2b. Walked to Tesco. Bought an Adjustable Spanner.
2c. The adjustable spanner can only tighten 2 out of the 3 valves that cut of the water flow to the radiator.
2c(i). The boiler does not say which pipe is the hot-out and which is the hot-in.
2c(ii). Having worked out which is the hot-out, I have discovered another nut on the main pipe before the three little radiator pipes come off that may shut off water to all radiators, allowing the flow to just circulate around the hot water pipe and back.
2c(iii)(a). My adjustable spanner will not expand big enough to grip that nut.
2c(iii)(b). Argos sell a spanner set that does not have any spanners big enough to address any part of my central heating system.
3. I have NO idea if I have managed to turn off the right radiator.
4. Lunch.
5. Someone is coming into town later with a real (not adjustable) spanner that might enable me to close the valve of the last radiator out pipe.
6. The drier has not spun the washing. All washing is still wet.
7. Fate hates me.
It is my father's considered opinion that as the system is so old, and everything falls apart at the touch of a spanner, I'm going to have to get the Landlord to get a plumber in. *sigh* That is not going to be a cheerful conversation.
2. DIY places, not so much.
I will try again this afternoon.
Today's to-do list consists of:
1. Fix the sink
2. Ask the internet why my radiator is leaking and solve it
3. Cook Thai Red Curry
4. Do the ironing (hopefully with a silly afternoon film somewhere, possibly in black and white - if the fates love me enough).
Update on today (rage)
1. The garden centre eventually opened. It does not do the bits I need to fix the sink. It does not do anything.
2. In tightening the gland valve on my radiator I sheared the nut and it fell off
2a. Placed a bowl under the valve and wrapped valve in old tea towel, ends resting in bowl.
2a (i) Pressure in central heating system is slowly dropping.
2b. Walked to Tesco. Bought an Adjustable Spanner.
2c. The adjustable spanner can only tighten 2 out of the 3 valves that cut of the water flow to the radiator.
2c(i). The boiler does not say which pipe is the hot-out and which is the hot-in.
2c(ii). Having worked out which is the hot-out, I have discovered another nut on the main pipe before the three little radiator pipes come off that may shut off water to all radiators, allowing the flow to just circulate around the hot water pipe and back.
2c(iii)(a). My adjustable spanner will not expand big enough to grip that nut.
2c(iii)(b). Argos sell a spanner set that does not have any spanners big enough to address any part of my central heating system.
3. I have NO idea if I have managed to turn off the right radiator.
4. Lunch.
5. Someone is coming into town later with a real (not adjustable) spanner that might enable me to close the valve of the last radiator out pipe.
6. The drier has not spun the washing. All washing is still wet.
7. Fate hates me.
It is my father's considered opinion that as the system is so old, and everything falls apart at the touch of a spanner, I'm going to have to get the Landlord to get a plumber in. *sigh* That is not going to be a cheerful conversation.