An Utter Disaster

[Max B Gold]

It's minus 4 degrees cee and the boiler won't work. No heat no hot water. FFS! The boiler guy can't come out until tomorrow.

I've got an electric heater I use in the shed in the living room but it's not touching it. Have turned on all the rings and oven on the Aga and thinking about introducing the air fryers but the house already smells like a chippy.

Plan is to go to work and rely on my taxi to save me from hypothermia and to run from the car to the bed where the electric blanket will be on when I finish.

It's a battle for survival in the frozen North. Roll on summer.

[StillSpike]

Had to have my LGP tank replaced today - the company knew it was needing replaced but had to wait till it was empty before they could do it. No heating this morning - minus 6 here - but now back on and slowly thawing out.

[CEB]

If I’d won an argument against my wife a few weeks back, we’d currently be freezing in one room of our place with no electricity or heating as we have building work done with the back of the building exposed to the elements. Luckily I lost that argument

[Long slender neck]

It's minus 4 degrees cee and the boiler won't work. No heat no hot water. FFS! The boiler guy can't come out until tomorrow.

I've got an electric heater I use in the shed in the living room but it's not touching it. Have turned on all the rings and oven on the Aga and thinking about introducing the air fryers but the house already smells like a chippy.

Plan is to go to work and rely on my taxi to save me from hypothermia and to run from the car to the bed where the electric blanket will be on when I finish.

It's a battle for survival in the frozen North. Roll on summer.

Whats the problem? Have you tried turning it off and on again?

[tuffers#1]

Good Luck Max

[Fisch]

Erin Doors wants to visit Scotland, she's not impressed when l ask if she wants to freeze to death or die from multiple midge bites.

[one o in huntingdon]

It's minus 4 degrees cee and the boiler won't work. No heat no hot water. FFS! The boiler guy can't come out until tomorrow.

I've got an electric heater I use in the shed in the living room but it's not touching it. Have turned on all the rings and oven on the Aga and thinking about introducing the air fryers but the house already smells like a chippy.

Plan is to go to work and rely on my taxi to save me from hypothermia and to run from the car to the bed where the electric blanket will be on when I finish.

It's a battle for survival in the frozen North. Roll on summer.

If its a combi the condenser outlet pipe might be frozen, all it needs is thawing with hot water or a hair dryer

[Max B Gold]

If I’d won an argument against my wife a few weeks back, we’d currently be freezing in one room of our place with no electricity or heating as we have building work done with the back of the building exposed to the elements. Luckily I lost that argument

I don't believe you. When did you ever "lose" an argument?

[Max B Gold]

It's minus 4 degrees cee and the boiler won't work. No heat no hot water. FFS! The boiler guy can't come out until tomorrow.

I've got an electric heater I use in the shed in the living room but it's not touching it. Have turned on all the rings and oven on the Aga and thinking about introducing the air fryers but the house already smells like a chippy.

Plan is to go to work and rely on my taxi to save me from hypothermia and to run from the car to the bed where the electric blanket will be on when I finish.

It's a battle for survival in the frozen North. Roll on summer.

If its a combi the condenser outlet pipe might be frozen, all it needs is thawing with hot water or a hair dryer

Is that the one that sticks out on the outside wall ?

[BoniO]

It's minus 4 degrees cee and the boiler won't work. No heat no hot water. FFS! The boiler guy can't come out until tomorrow.

I've got an electric heater I use in the shed in the living room but it's not touching it. Have turned on all the rings and oven on the Aga and thinking about introducing the air fryers but the house already smells like a chippy.

Plan is to go to work and rely on my taxi to save me from hypothermia and to run from the car to the bed where the electric blanket will be on when I finish.

It's a battle for survival in the frozen North. Roll on summer.

If its a combi the condenser outlet pipe might be frozen, all it needs is thawing with hot water or a hair dryer

Is that the one that sticks out on the outside wall ?

Yes it is and I agree with HuntingdonO that this is a likely cause. Other simple thing to check is the pressure of your heating system - the gauge needs to be over 1 Bar to a max of 1.5 Bar with system off. You can top up if necessary by opening the 2 (probably) valves on your filling loop. Bon chance

[CEB]

If I’d won an argument against my wife a few weeks back, we’d currently be freezing in one room of our place with no electricity or heating as we have building work done with the back of the building exposed to the elements. Luckily I lost that argument

I don't believe you. When did you ever "lose" an argument?

There was that thread about probability back in 2007

[Long slender neck]

No error code?

[StillSpike]

If its a combi the condenser outlet pipe might be frozen, all it needs is thawing with hot water or a hair dryer

Is that the one that sticks out on the outside wall ?

Yes it is and I agree with HuntingdonO that this is a likely cause. Other simple thing to check is the pressure of your heating system - the gauge needs to be over 1 Bar to a max of 1.5 Bar with system off. You can top up if necessary by opening the 2 (probably) valves on your filling loop. Bon chance

Ditto this - I'm sure you know how to re-pressurise your combi boiler, but just in case you haven't done it before it's worth finding out and trying.

[one o in huntingdon]

It's minus 4 degrees cee and the boiler won't work. No heat no hot water. FFS! The boiler guy can't come out until tomorrow.

I've got an electric heater I use in the shed in the living room but it's not touching it. Have turned on all the rings and oven on the Aga and thinking about introducing the air fryers but the house already smells like a chippy.

Plan is to go to work and rely on my taxi to save me from hypothermia and to run from the car to the bed where the electric blanket will be on when I finish.

It's a battle for survival in the frozen North. Roll on summer.

If its a combi the condenser outlet pipe might be frozen, all it needs is thawing with hot water or a hair dryer

Is that the one that sticks out on the outside wall ?

That's the one, if it freezes up the boiler won't work.

[Orient_Man_And_Boy]

Admittedly not with a boiler but I find throwing the make and model number into YouTube sometimes brings back some advice, especially, as above, about tweaking the pressure valves.
Or, if you have a smartphone, perhaps find a plumber who could spare just 5 mins on a FaceTime link (and therefore could be anywhere in the country) to see the boiler via the link?

[Max B Gold]

It's not the pressure. I know how to top that up when necessary. Sounds like it could be the condenser pipe but I would need a ladder for that.

I'll leave it to the experts tomorrow.

[StockholmO]

Tropical weather in the UK. This was what it was like when I left work in the dark. It’s a good job we have triple glazing and resistive and heat pumps.

[Max B Gold]

Tropical weather in the UK. This was what it was like when I left work in the dark. It’s a good job we have triple glazing and resistive and heat pumps.

You on a half day?

[Real Al]

I thought the point of an Aga was that it heated the entire house. Are you just trying to big up your Beko?

[Max B Gold]

I thought the point of an Aga was that it heated the entire house. Are you just trying to big up your Beko?

I'm going to let you into a little secret. I don't have an Aga I only said I did to make Dunners jealous and for Trump Plumbing to sneer at his screen.

[Max B Gold]

Update: No sign of the boiler geezer yet. Living room eventually heated up with the electric radiator thing. Everywhere else is like the Artic.

Cat who likes to sleep on top of the radiator cover is angry and confused.

[StockholmO]

Now this is proper cold. All the moisture in my nose froze on the walk from the office to the car.

[Fisch]

How do you stand that? Strewth!

[Adz]

I sympathise with you, it's summer here and not forecast to get over 20 this week!

[WickfordO]

We are getting temps in the low teens C next week.