When it snows it rains!
Jan 10, 2010 // 6:13 AM
Let me start this blog post by saying this little guy has saved me from freezing over yesterday!
Heres why.....
If your following me on Twitter you will know i have returned to my university flat to find a few nice welcome home pressies... No we do not have rats. We instead had (thank-god thats in past tense!) no bathroom light working- which meant i had to plug in my lamp into the hallway plug socket and then put the lamp inside the bathroom, which gave it some light but not loads, so i had panda eyes in the morning- not good! And my main light was not working in my room, which is odd because i changed my build before i left for home, but luckly my parents had packed some spare light-bulbs in my suitcase's, so i tried both lightbulbs (both brand new in a box) and neither of them would shine a light into my dark room :(
So i decide to call my landlady to tell her i think my light's wires might be broken, and she tells me she will come round tomorrow to see what the problem is with both my light and the bathroom as im right next door to the bathroom, so she thought it was linked. Oh boy was she right!...
The next worning i wake up and take a shower, then i go downstairs to the kitchen to get some breakfast, only to find that the whole of the kitchen floor is flooded, the kitchen sides are sodden wet and water is dripping down onto the floor. So i look up towards where i can hear some dripping sounds, to find part of the ceiling has damp and water is coming down from the damp spot. The kitchen is right below the bathroom and the damp spot is where the boiler is, so my first thought is that the bathroom is the source of the problem.
So my landlady gets another call from me to tell her the kitchen has decided to form into a swimming pool. So to cut long story short, the repair guy comes an hour later (yes an hour! It started snowing really heavy again!) and finds the boiler is leaking, and turns off the water. Which means the whole house gets freezing cold without the radiators working.
When he fixes the boiler, he cleans up the water in the kitchen :) and then thankfully my light decides to work and so does the bathroom light! Whhhhooooohooooo! So im thinking maybe the lights were ot working because of the leaky boiler?
So the story about the heater? My dad called me and told me to buy an electric heater for my room, because my radiator is not efficient enough and because of the boiler breaking he thought it best that i dont freeze to death :) I bought it from Argos for £23 its a tiny thing (size of a cat) but heats my room up in less than 5 mins to make it nice and cosy :)
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