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Another reason that M and I are so well suited is that we’ve spent as least two hours today taking over email about radiators and radiator placement. He said “We’d just need to know maximum sizes of radiators and BTU/kW needed for the room. We can mock it up in SketchUp tonight? We need to [...]

We now have the luxury of hot water at Bobble Towers courtesy of our new condensing boiler – the gas pressure hungry condensing boiler – and a long length of fat copper pipe. Surface mounted pipe is very ugly to be sure but it was the only way. I am now shopping for off white [...]

Well the boiler doesn’t work. It sits on the wall looking at me all shiny and gleaming and white. The very model of modern sleek efficiency. But yet, no hot water. Apparently when they converted the building in flats way back when they didn’t run an appropriate size diameter gas pipe from where it enters [...]

Yep we’re having a new boiler put in – during the hottest week of the year so far. Today is meant to be 98% humidity in Brighton too (I frickin’ hate high humidity. Apparently my legs do too as they always come out in a rash when the humidity starts to rise.) And they are [...]

Well we’re finally back from holiday. Loads done, loads doing and loads to do. We had approximately half of the time away under serene blaring hot blue skies, half under some of the worst storms Northern Italy has seen for years. Maltempo indeed. So, erm mixed. We drove up and down many ace passes and [...]