Early Saturday morning, dad came in my room, woke me & said the boiler wasn’t working. He’d been ‘messing on with it’ for an hour and still not working, so could I find someone to fix it. I got up, saw error code on boiler, tried suggested fixes, nothing, so I started trying to find some to fix it ASAP.
I was getting nowhere, found a website for emergency plumbers and booked a visit.
At dinner time the fella arrived, was a bit baffled, then discovered that the gas supply to the boiler had been turned off. The valve on gas pipe had been turned, which requires a screw driver to do.
Bless him, he was v good & didn’t charge for his time, but, it still cost almost £300.
Sunday, I get up, house is cold. Dad comes down & says he’s been a bit confused. I went in the garage where boiler is. A sun lounger is set up like he’s been sitting in it and when I check the boiler, there’s water underneath.
Dad was a maintenance engineer. He often wakes early to go to loo. Sometimes If it’s cold, he goes to boiler & tries to top it up, sometimes way too much. I assume that’s what he was trying to do when he turned the gas off.
As well as all that, there’s of course been all the constant questions, ‘has someone serviced the boiler, why was there someone here, what’s wrong with the boiler? etc’ every few minutes.
I have to find some way to stop him trying to ‘fix’ it. Only thing I’ve come up with is to get someone to build a lockable cabinet around it.
At the same time as this, my adult autistic child had to leave their flat for a week while bathroom was refitted. They moved to my house, which has been empty for 2 years. Lots of stress & packing & carrying & cleaning & taking cat & well, you can imagine.
This morning I just wanted to run away somewhere to cry & sleep. I’m exhausted & tomorrow I have to move child back.
Sorry, like I said, been a rough week, needed a rant.
If anyone has any ideas re boiler feel free to say. At this point I’m open to anything
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