Spot the difference

Gas box carefully positioned on the wall

There's been an exciting new development in the ni-heating-ni-hot-water situation here at twentyfourandthedoor:

The gas box has moved!

Yes, an engineer from the gas company arrived unannounced and re-drilled the holes, moving the box a few centimeters to the right, and then went away. It now lines up much better with the marked lines and generally looks more aesthetically pleasing.

It still has no gas connected to it, but we take comfort with the knowledge that when the gas does arrive, it will arrive in the right place. Rumour has it that this may happen on the 18th of this month, so watch this space...

Gas box carefully positioned on the wall

Nice Box

A little unexpectedly (since we thought everything had been cancelled), a man arrived today and started to drill big holes in the wall outside our garden, and plonked a gas box in the appointed space.

We have a pipe on the other side of the wall that our heating engineer can connect up, though we're still waiting for GrDF to dig the trench for the pipe that will actually connect the gas supply to the box. I'm not sure this is all being done in the usual order, but it's good to see some more progress!

Meanwhile, our heating engineer is contacting some people who should hopefully be able to get us an emergency supply of fuel (and not 500 litres of it) - so we can start giving the kids warm baths again!

Getting the thermals ready

Today, GrDF had planned to arrive and dig up our road to connect us to the gas supply. Unfortunately, something has gone horribly wrong with the permissions for this (all the various parties involved are each sure they held up their end), so they phoned yesterday to say that they couldn't go ahead - it could be another few weeks before they obtain the necessary permissions.

Looking at the dial to the right, we're running a little low on fuel for hot water and heating (it was perfectly planned), so I may have to get some more... which is a little inconvenient, since it comes in minimum 500 litre deliveries, and even if the weather was frozen, I'd doubt we'd be able to use that much in the few weeks we have left on fuel.

Maybe I can tap some fuel from somebody else with a long siphon tube and a bucket...