Morning All. :D Gout has struck me in my right foot. :( Hospital for herself this morning at 10:45, fingers crossed. Have a great day! :D

Well, I finally prevailed. :) The issue seems to be that the outside legs of the spring compressor need to be enough coils down the spring to compress a decent amount of the spring and then you lean on the whole thing to compress the remaining coils. This just does not work because the feet of...

.... I am a bit cross/sad/disheartened. Harumph! I thought that today would be a very good day to change the valve stem oil seals on the Mini, but It isn't. :( Rocker pedestal off, plugs out, pick a cylinder at the bottom of its stroke, fill the cylinder with soft nylon rope, wind the piston...

Morning All. :D Awake since 5AM and couldn't sleep so got up. :( But, it is better than not waking up at all, so I am grateful. :) BBBQ'd fillets for Dinner tonight. :) New Combi is making the bath-taps drip (old and hard seals/washers perhaps). Another job to do. :) I hope you all have a...

Night folks. :)

....that my AFR package from those nice "Ali-Express" folks arrived. Bunged a 12v supply on it and it went to 1.36 AFR20 in open air (as I think it should). This might be good. :)

Middle Son just visited. Is really down in the dumps. :( Brike, owes me a bundle, about to lose his house and now his lady has been told she loses her rental place in 2 months and he feels under even more pressure to sort his life out poor lad. He will end up here in probably < 2 months. Going...

Ahhhh... my bad, sorry. Well, there will always be heat in there when the CH runs because the main backbone runs under there and is exposed. But, now it is a Combi there will be no 40 gallon DHW cylinder leaking heat into the cupboard. Maybe a 40/60 Watt heater will be required at the bottom...

Are you feeling extra jocular? ;)

Was an old (35yrs) Potterton Neataheat Profile 80e. 24Kw 80,000BTU New one is an Ideal Standard Vogue 40 combi. (40Kw and 136,000BTU).

Nope, just the cylinder and the main-28mm backbone piping (kept it all nice and cosy). :)

Morning All. :D All good here @WhiskyLassie thank you. Enjoy your holiday time. :) Got up a tad early (couldn't lie there any longer), got the paper etc. etc. Took a look inside the airing cupboard and yes, it is still an awesome job. :) Have a great day! :D

Rekord?

...that today I have reworked the "airing cupboard" now that the DHW cylinder is gone. Herself asked for storage for "upstairs cleaning things (hoover, broom etc.)" and could I make extra racks on the LH side and extend the top rack over on the right. So I did. I am pooped I have to say...

Morning All. :D Another day in the salt mine I reckon. :) W had a surprise call from the NHS y'day afternoon. They are sorry but the post office lost a whole batch of "referral letters" and can she come in and see the folks at the bowel cancer clinic because her last test had anomalies and...