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Miftan posted:How often do I need to get my boiler serviced in this weird country? If its a gas boiler, you should get it serviced once a year (although it's perfectly legal to let it rust away until you choke on carbon monoxide, if that's your preference). Electric boilers, I dunno.
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What percentage of people get their boiler serviced yearly? I'm assuming it's about zero
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Jun 18, 2021 08:27
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Failed Imagineer posted:What percentage of people get their boiler serviced yearly? I'm assuming it's about zero This was my assumption as well. I've definitely lived in rented flats where nobody has come by to service the boiler in 4+ years, but I didn't grow up with boilers and so I know absolutely nothing about them and how safe/prone to breaking they are. Is getting it done expensive or are people just lazy?
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Jun 18, 2021 08:30
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https://twitter.com/mygibbo/status/1405785467547754498 oops
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Jun 18, 2021 08:31
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In my case our warranty is tied in to having a serviced boiler, so for at least 7 years since we got our new boiler (in 2017, predictably soon after moving in) we'll be continuing to pay the £40 annual service charge. Meant that a bunch of minor repairs this year were all free that otherwise might've cost hundreds.
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Jun 18, 2021 08:32
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Marmaduke! posted:In my case our warranty is tied in to having a serviced boiler, so for at least 7 years since we got our new boiler (in 2017, predictably soon after moving in) we'll be continuing to pay the £40 annual service charge. Meant that a bunch of minor repairs this year were all free that otherwise might've cost hundreds. We moved in here exactly one year after the boiler was installed and hasn't been serviced so that's out the window, unfortunately.
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Jun 18, 2021 08:35
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Miftan posted:This was my assumption as well. I've definitely lived in rented flats where nobody has come by to service the boiler in 4+ years, but I didn't grow up with boilers and so I know absolutely nothing about them and how safe/prone to breaking they are. When I was renting in a place with a gas boiler the landlord sent someone around every year to do a safety check. The electric boiler in my current place has no moving parts, so there's nothing to service. I do need to run the system every so often anyway just to stop the pump seizing up.
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Jun 18, 2021 08:37
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Gas boiler should be yearly and if you rent the landlord should be paying for it All else fails make sure you have a good carbon monoxide detector
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Jun 18, 2021 08:41
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Angrymog posted:I do need to run the system every so often anyway just to stop the pump seizing up. I think my Nest thermostat does this once every week or so as anti-legionnaires and mechanical thing, but I should verify
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Jun 18, 2021 08:41
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I have mine done each year for the warranty, £50 a go which seems a bit much but the chap who does it seems very diligent
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Jun 18, 2021 08:41
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Miftan posted:This was my assumption as well. I've definitely lived in rented flats where nobody has come by to service the boiler in 4+ years, but I didn't grow up with boilers and so I know absolutely nothing about them and how safe/prone to breaking they are. If you own the place, it's down to you to get the boiler serviced but if your renting it's a legal requirement to have a Gas Safety Certificate for all gas appliances in the property. This doesn't have to be a full service, but someone should be coming out and checking everything at least once a year. This also applies to having someone move in as a lodger.
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Jun 18, 2021 08:42
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Neoliberalism is back baby! It's good again. AWOOO (wolf howl)
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Jun 18, 2021 08:42
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Guavanaut posted:He Peet himself. I loved those games. Was always really poo poo at them, but the artwork and animation was just lovely to look at.
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Jun 18, 2021 08:45
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Renfield posted:
Make sure to service your lodger at least once a year
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Jun 18, 2021 08:46
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Failed Imagineer posted:Make sure to service your todger at least once a year
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Jun 18, 2021 08:52
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*Sucking air through teeth* : "motors gone, mate, you're looking at replacing the whole unit"
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Jun 18, 2021 08:55
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Jun 18, 2021 08:59
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Pistol_Pete posted:Like I said before: all the Labour Right faction currently in control of the party have to offer is the return to sensible, grown-up politics, as personified by the eminently electable Keir Starmer. They can't ever admit that it's all an illusion because then they'd have literally nothing. Starmer probably should go if/when Labour lose Batley but I can absolutely see him staggering on until the General Election 'cos what else are they going to do? Yeah, they have no idea how to win, but are so entrenched they can't lose the party easily. We need a few more by elections to see if the LD thing is local or signs of a more general Tory collapse. it's most likely the former, but if the LD learn from their winning tactics, they might actually fight back. What Labour need is someone with a personality, as people often vote for the most interesting person, for good or for bad.
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Jun 18, 2021 09:08
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Rural Tories are angry over the extended lockdown, I get it because this county isn’t that far away from a huge outbreak but people in tiny villages are FEWMIN. It will boil down to if people hold on to that anger or it blows over when everything opens up.
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Jun 18, 2021 09:11
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Miftan posted:How often do I need to get my boiler serviced in this weird country? When I was renting, my landperson had my gas boiler serviced annually.
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Jun 18, 2021 09:16
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Miftan posted:This was my assumption as well. I've definitely lived in rented flats where nobody has come by to service the boiler in 4+ years, but I didn't grow up with boilers and so I know absolutely nothing about them and how safe/prone to breaking they are. It’s literally the law to have it done as part of the Landlord’s Gas Safety Check if you’re in rented accommodation. We (owner occupier) get ours done yearly because why not? It might prevent you or a loved one being killed in the night. Around here I *think* it’s about £65 for an annual safety check which includes the cooker and gas fire too, but it’s the landlord who pays.
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Jun 18, 2021 09:18
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Did this by-election just not make the news or something? Why am I only hearing about it now?
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Jun 18, 2021 09:23
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Necrothatcher posted:Did this by-election just not make the news or something? Why am I only hearing about it now? I think it was assumed to be such an obvious Tory hold that no one really bothered sending reporters down there.
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Jun 18, 2021 09:25
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Necrothatcher posted:Did this by-election just not make the news or something? Why am I only hearing about it now? Council by election, no one cares apart from weird politics nerds.
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Jun 18, 2021 09:26
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Apparently Labour didn't give a gently caress and the libdems went hard on some sort of local issue.
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Jun 18, 2021 09:26
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I did some work a while back for a housing charity in Chesham and while it ticks a lot of the usual 'Home Counties' boxes there's some real deprivation there (probably related to housing costs!) and I can only imagine COVID has made it worse. Well done Kieth for your stong performance in 'leafy Bucks".
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Jun 18, 2021 09:26
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keep punching joe posted:Council by election, no one cares apart from weird politics nerds. It's a Westminster by-election. https://www.theguardian.com/politics/2021/jun/18/lib-dems-win-chesham-and-amersham-byelection-in-stunning-upset Sarah Green of the Liberal Democrats after being declared the new MP for Chesham and Amersham
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Regarde Aduck posted:That article and even the study behind it seems… odd. Ageing is a biological constraint? No loving kidding? Like it seems the logic is ‘ageing is biological, biological science hasn’t yet been able to change ageing rates, therefore it’s impossible’ Failed Imagineer posted:What percentage of people get their boiler serviced yearly? I'm assuming it's about zero
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Jaeluni Asjil posted:It's a Westminster by-election? Was it? Lmao I just saw the swing and assumed it was one of those local elections where weird poo poo just happens.
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keep punching joe posted:Was it? That was my reaction too: heard nothing about it happening, didn't know the seat, must be a council, but why are people on twitter quite excited? oh OH!
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Jun 18, 2021 09:42
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keep punching joe posted:Council by election, no one cares apart from weird politics nerds. Unrelated, does anyone know how parental leave works? HR loving doesn't. I'm working full time on decent pay, partner has been working a few zero hours part time jobs on comfortable pay, but both of her current contracts end about 8 weeks before baby is due. She's also got PhD funding that gives her 6 months' maternity at full pay, & seems to think that this interacts with statutory maternity pay in some way but we don't understand it - is that something we need to look into, or is it just like her funder will give her the money? I know I get my 2 weeks paternity at full pay, & since she's not working potentially also shared parental leave, but it looks like that's only £150 a week & wouldn't even make rent & bills, which I guess saves the headache of trying to calculate eligibility which we (& HR) also don't understand. Is there anything I'm missing? tia for any advice
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Jun 18, 2021 09:44
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keep punching joe posted:Was it? The weirdest poo poo to happen in a local election would be someone getting 622 votes and not winning. It was a by election caused by Cheryl Gillan's death in April. Gillan is probably best known for being so shameless with her expenses claims that a Tory government had to remove the right for an MP in her constituency to claim for a second home. She overclaimed £2k for a mortgage on a house in Battersea that she didn't even need because her hometown is on the Underground.
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learnincurve posted:Rural Tories are angry over the extended lockdown, I get it because this county isn’t that far away from a huge outbreak but people in tiny villages are FEWMIN. It will boil down to if people hold on to that anger or it blows over when everything opens up. Amersham isn't "rural" though. It's on the tube map, FFS, the only thing that stops it being Upminster or Finchley is that the NIMBYs managed to get in much, much earlier and freeze it at "small commuter town" size. Now they talk about new development "ruining the character of the town" without ever examining why the character of the town is "every single building is almost exactly the same age, and all of them were built within 5 years of the train station opening", and also about HS2 going through the area. Anyone living in Metroland complaining about encroaching urbanisation - let alone about a new train line coming through - should be ground into a fine paste and used to lubricate the wheels of the trains that are the literal only reason for the existence of their lovely little towns.
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Jun 18, 2021 09:48
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https://twitter.com/alexnunns/status/1405809375508373504
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Grey Hunter posted:We need a few more by elections to see if the LD thing is local or signs of a more general Tory collapse. it's most likely the former, but if the LD learn from their winning tactics, they might actually fight back. Tories were losing some county & local council seats in traditional home counties areas too, I think it's part of a realignment of sorts and not just local effects.
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Jun 18, 2021 10:05
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DesperateDan posted:All else fails make sure you have a good carbon monoxide detector You should definitely have a carbon monoxide detector regardless of anything imo. They cost about £25 and the battery lasts for 7 years or something, and it might save your life
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Jun 18, 2021 10:05
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goddamnedtwisto posted:Amersham isn't "rural" though. It's on the tube map, FFS, the only thing that stops it being Upminster or Finchley Whilst I don't entirely disagree, both those other places you mention are within the m25 unlike amersham which is around three times further from the centre of london as the crow flies than finchley. I used to live in the area, in a village and it felt rural enough. I dont think it should be becoming more london.
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Jun 18, 2021 10:06
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goddamnedtwisto posted:Amersham isn't "rural" though. It's on the tube map, FFS, the only thing that stops it being Upminster or Finchley is that the NIMBYs managed to get in much, much earlier and freeze it at "small commuter town" size. Now they talk about new development "ruining the character of the town" without ever examining why the character of the town is "every single building is almost exactly the same age, and all of them were built within 5 years of the train station opening", and also about HS2 going through the area. I have some good and happy urban development news. They are unfucking what beeching did to Derbyshire and the first stage is to turn the Chesterfield to Sheffield freight line (goes via barrow hill, renishaw and Crystal peaks) back into a branch line, it’s a “holy poo poo it’s actually happening” thing with stations being built and everything.
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Jun 18, 2021 10:13
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Lol a car has collided head-on with a prisoner transport truck on my street in what is clearly an attempt to spring some prisoners. I have never seen so many police in all my life
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Jun 18, 2021 10:17
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it'll be a fun general election if labour's national vote share is labour membership + ~3% 
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