I went back to work this week and it was great! Everything back to normal, we thought. How wrong we were. The snow disappeared as I did a happy little jig and we had a couple of days of normality and then I got up one morning and happened to pet the cat as I came back up from the stooped position I could see a large area of damp on our kitchen ceiling. Uh oh. Men were promptly called in, the first to arrive was a roofer as it was thought it would be a leak in the roof which would be easy to fix. He came down from the loft and said it wasn't the roof and that he would call a plumber as he thought it was our boiler. In came the plumber, he went up in the loft and had a look and came back down and said he would have to call a more experienced plumber as he had never seen our type of boiler and hadn't a clue what to do with it as it was so old. Off he went and in came a more experienced plumber who disappeared up into the loft to have a proper look, then water started dripping down the light fitting in the living room and an electrician had to be called to come and make it all safe. The outcome of all this on Friday afternoon was that, the living room light was taken off the circuit and left to dry out, a lot of the wetter stuff in the loft was taken out and we were left without hot water for the weekend. It now looks like we will be without hot water until Thursday. That's when the new boiler will get here and should be put in. They've ordered a new one as they think the one we have has been there since the bungalow was built. So we're having to boil hot water to wash at present and to do the washing up. Makes you appreciate it though. Perhaps I'll have a 'normal' week next week. I live in hope.
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