Any plumbers / heating engineers around?

[Les Biehn]

As I said, an air lock.

Talk to the nibble coz the Les know nothing.

 

[Clothes Peg]

As I said, an air lock.

Actually, it does sound like a trapped air kind of sound. Without being crude, almost like a boiler fart!

 

[hans kraay fan club]

I have been told by Nibble you need to bleed your radiators. Apparently you can get a key for 50p from a hardware shop and you need to do it until the bubbling water stops coming out and its just normal water.

or blood, if the heating system is possessed.

 

[Les Biehn]

or blood, if the heating system is possessed.

Or poo and wee if the systems are in some way backed up and f***ed up.

 

[Clothes Peg]

or blood, if the heating system is possessed.

It is possible that I might be living in a haunted flat. On Google earth and the other Microsoft one, it doesn't even show up Just an empty space.

 

[Les Biehn]

We don't have any radiators.

Just a barrel with a fire in it?

 

[Clothes Peg]

Just a barrel with a fire in it?

It's not a 3rd world country you know! It's Wales.

We have electric heater thingys.

 

[Les Biehn]

It's not a 3rd world country you know! It's Wales.

We have electric heater thingys.

Ones on skips don't count. I may need to invest in some fingerless gloves if I ever go to Cardiff.

 

[Yorkie]

It's not a 3rd world country you know! It's Wales.

We have electric heater thingys.

Storage heaters? In which case you don't have a boiler. Is it an electric immersion heater for your hot water?

 

[Rangdo]

As I said, an air lock.

Without wishing to be pedantic (although I do enjoy it) an air lock and air in the radiators is not the same thing.

An air lock is air somewhere in the system preventing the flow of water. In a boiler this will likely cause it to overheat and make banging noises and for parts of the system not to heat up properly.

Air in the radiators is just a build up of air released from the water or corrosion gases that rises to high points i.e. the tops of radiators and needs to be released.

I'm just the kind of guy you would want to get chatting to in a pub

 

[Clothes Peg]

Storage heaters? In which case you don't have a boiler. Is it an electric immersion heater for your hot water?

Yeah, storage heaters.
It's definitely a boiler type thing, and it powers all the flats (about 12) in my wing. It hums constantly, and provides hot water for the showers and taps. I'm not really an expert on heating.

 

[Yorkie]

Yeah, storage heaters.
It's definitely a boiler type thing, and it powers all the flats (about 12) in my wing. It hums constantly, and provides hot water for the showers and taps. I'm not really an expert on heating.

Electric storage heaters and gas hot water then?

 

[Clothes Peg]

Electric storage heaters and gas hot water then?

I presume so. We're not allowed to look in the secret cupboard. I just want maintenance to take me seriously and call a specialist. I might mention air locks to sound like I know what I'm talking about.

 

[hans kraay fan club]

I presume so. We're not allowed to look in the secret cupboard. I just want maintenance to take me seriously and call a specialist. I might mention air locks to sound like I know what I'm talking about.

Almost certainly what is going on here is that the weasly little maintenance guy has hidden his secret still in the heating cupboard, where he makes his moonshine. He probably hides in there drinking the stuff while he spies on all the student girlies through a series of little holes he has drilled in all the air vents.

Or a poltergeist. My mind is open to all theories.

 

[Billy the Fish]

At the end of the day you live in student halls and can do sweet FA about it unless the maintenance people decide to look into it for you. They probably just view you as scummy students who will be gone soon anyway, so will just tell you there's nothing wrong with it even though they haven't looked. That's what I'd do, at least until someone important made me fix it. Mabye you should have a protest or something.

 

[Clothes Peg]

At the end of the day you live in student halls and can do sweet FA about it unless the maintenance people decide to look into it for you. They probably just view you as scummy students who will be gone soon anyway, so will just tell you there's nothing wrong with it even though they haven't looked. That's what I'd do, at least until someone important made me fix it. Mabye you should have a protest or something.

Hmm, students LOVE a good protest.

 

[Yorkie]

I presume so. We're not allowed to look in the secret cupboard. I just want maintenance to take me seriously and call a specialist. I might mention air locks to sound like I know what I'm talking about.

Sounds like a good idea.

 

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Aw she's not getting scared

 

[Muhammed - I’m hard - Bruce Lee]

crap in the water

how often will she have to do that

 

[Heffle Gull]

You could always ask maintainance to switch it of then switch it back on again.







well some one had to!