February 27th, 2009
We woke this morning to find the house was quite cold. As is usual Paul thought I had been fiddling with the knobs again but after a while came to accept that the boiler had indeed broken down. This would not normally be a problem he thought until I explained our British Gas HomeCare agreement lapsed last year.
Sheepishly he rang the number and discovered they were more than willing to help. They re-instated the service agreement over the phone and arranged to send someone round after lunch. We had to pay a little call out charge but this was a very reasonable amount of money given it included any parts that might be needed.
Sure enough as promised a young guy turned up at the door after lunch. He opened the covers….. and my heart sank. It looked like a raging inferno had brought carnage to the inner workings of our boiler.
Apparently our gas seal had gone and while I thought it was going to be an expensive write off, he assured me it was not as bad as it looked, was a fairly typical fault and very simple to fix. Thankfully within the hour we were up and running again, with the radiators pumping out heat much to the relief of our two cats.
Pryordurkin rating. 5 Stars.
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