What a day!!!

Today is horrid, i'm hoping that it ends better than it is now!  Despite things starting well this morning.

Today is the day we finally get our boiler fitted on the government scheme for people on benefits, this has only taken 7months, 3 companies and a cancelled appointment to finally take place.

The 1st company back in July 2013 said yes they could do it and filled out all the paperwork, did all the checks said they could the loft and wall insulation as well.  Well the guys came and did the insulation and whilst they were here we received a call saying that they were no longer fitting boilers and we wouldn't be getting one.  So we hunted around and found company number 2.  Who came and did all checks and the paperwork and booked a fitting date in September.  The day before we received a phonecall "we're very sorry but you won't be getting your new boiler tomorrow as we no longer have any funding to do them."  So the search begin yet again for a new company.

That was when we found the company we have used.  This took us longer than planned and we finally had the assessor come out in December, who did all the checks and paperwork and booked us in for February.  The date of last week was cancelled as the engineer was ill and it was re-booked for today.

Well the engineer turned up and started to remove the old boiler, the back door is wide open, the kitchen window is open and I have a hole in the wall where my boiler once was - my nice warm house (and myself) is like a fridge!!!  No joke I think the north pole wold be warmer.  And the weather is threatening to snow - there is snow 5miles away on the fells!  The engineer received a phonecall saying that they would NOT be able to get an electrician out to check and test it all until tomorrow!  ERRR NO!!!  not an option to have no heating and no hot water in winter (in the Lake District) when I have 3 young children, 1 of which is majorily Asthmatic and temperature changes affect him, 1 is under the age of 5years and I have pre-booked hospital appointments for tomorrow.

So Hubby gets on the phone to the company who tell us there is no electrician within 100miles who is free to come to us, Hubby tells them it's not good enough and about children and appointments etc. They say they will ring us back.  Which they did with the same answer.  So we tell them again that its not good enough and need it sorting today.  I told the engineer that the local papers would be very interested in this and how bad it will look for their company and we receive yet another call saying they have found an electrician and he will be with us in half an hour.  Well an hour and 20minutes later there is still NO electrician, so another call to the company is taking place.

I will update later on the elusive electrician and weather or not I get heating today!

UPDATE - the electrician has finally turned up and the 2 of them are trying to get things working so that they can sign it off BUT they are not getting any pressure and the tank wont re-fill.  oh dear!!!  Also the electrician has said that the last "periodic inspection" was done in 2001 and is therefore out of date as only last 10years - i was led to believe that this had been done before we bought the house as all websites are saying need to be done to sell a property.

Tea is in the slow cooker, no idea what its going to turn out like - pizza rolls.  We will see.  if it fails I have pizzas in the freezer!