This week I'm going to tell you a story. Its not even a very interesting one but there you go!
A few years ago I had a new kitchen fitted, top to toe. Electrics, the works. The only thing that remained was my exisiting boiler which was about 5 years old. It had always been a bit of an eyesore in the old kitchen as it is tiny and I think the units in there were from the 60's.
So when I got my shiney lovely new kitchen the men fitted a big cupboard around the boiler and hide it so everything looked sleak and clean and fabulous.
Over the next couple of years everything went well, and then I notice some odd things happening with my heating system, the pipes were making strange noises. I found out that the boiler had a little fault with something called the pressure release value which is very common and over time it was venting steam and the system was loosing water. Simple, I was told, just top up the boiler with water. Fine I said, I'm not scared of doing that as I had to do it with my old one.
So I went to top it up with water, what did I discover? That I couldn't reach the F'ing tap is what. The men who had fitted my shiney new kitchen didn't leave enough space to put your hand underneath!
I tried to get the same men back, but they had gone out of business so tried to get someone else to come out and cut out a piece of wood from the cupboard. How hard can that be? Well BLOODY IMPOSSIBLE was the answer for months and months! With people not turning up and letting me down. Having to chase and chase workmen, no wonder I hate dealing with them as then always seem to make it so difficult.
The hot spring turned into the dank summer and then a freezing bloody cold autumn and still it wasn't done and I couldn't use my heating - at all!!!!!!!! I went and bought electric fires and moved them with me from room to room as I needed them. Not nice having to get up at 4am with frost outside and scurry around the house!
But finally, on wednesday my favourite thing appeared, see in the picture at the bottom under the loose bit of wood? Thats a hole. That's THE FUCKING FANTASTIC FABULOUS HOLE that allows you to get your hand to the tap and fill up the system with water. And give me heat................
9 comments:
Yay for the FFF Hole. Tradesman aren't any better here, it must be a worldwide problem!
Nice story, glad it had a happy ending. Marg is right tradesmen are the same the world over, it must be the bit at the end the MEN part.
Glad you can reach the tap now and will be warm. :o) Happy FTF!
What an ordeal just for a FFF hole! Glad you've got it now--and heat. Have a great weekend!
Halleluljah!
I have to say since you dont swear on your blog your last sentence completely cracked me up. I read this post to everyone in my house.
This was a fantastic FTF. So glad you'll have heat for winter now that you dont have to cart round from room to room.
Wow that was hard work for that FFF hole! You know workmen must be the same everywhere. While I have had some good ones, I've had ones like you've been dealing with too. Nothing more frustrating.
What a great FTF story. So glad the FFF hole became a reality.
So glad you got it sorted out in the end. I can completely see why it is a favorite thing :D!
xo -El
Such a simple thing taking soooo long to get fixed! And could have been prevented in the first place! A Fabulous FTF post about the FFF hole! Stay warm.
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