On off

We had our central heating boiler & gas fire serviced last Friday. It was a long & thorough job. He was here two hours. Since then we’ve ended up feeling unsettled.

Saturday evening the heat didn’t come on at 5pm as programmed. The Fox eventually found a flashing light on the boiler, pressed it & all was well.

Sunday morning I checked it had properly come on. Fine. Come the evening the Fox had to manually go & start it again. I was all for ringing the heating engineer but the Fox said leave it, maybe it would settle down.

So yesterday, all was well in the morning. Come the evening the heat came on. By 9pm the Fox was feeling cool & checked the radiators. Cold. Once more he started the boiler.

This morning the radiator started to warm up as I got up but now it seems quite cool. I’ve hastily searched out a thermometer. It says 19º, the temperature the thermostat is set for. Clearly I’m just worrying for nothing. Maybe we should have checked the thermometer before. Sometimes it’s amazing how cold you can feel even when it is fairly warm. Maybe the reason the boiler hasn’t been coming on is that the thermostat was doing its job. 19º was reached so it just switched off.

Next time the radiator doesn’t come on when we feel cold, I’ll check the thermometer first. Maybe the fault is with our internal thermometers rather than the recently serviced boiler. We’ll see.