Mr C had a good idea… We would upgrade to Fibre Optic broadband.

The process should have been completed on 9th March but do to miscommunication between the various services this did not happen. It also led to our internet connection being cut on 16th March. Despite all the internal and external works being completed on 24th March we still had no internet access.

We weren’t able to follow the lack of service up with the provider until today due to a day trip to London Yesterday (more on that soon).

Today our service provider diagnosed the problem and a simple tweak to the router fixed the problem. Later in the day after a further phone call to our service provider our phone line was also reinstated.

For now everything seems to be working perfectly…

Now I need to catch up on posting about my recent adventures and finish my posts about St Fagans.

After checking our system this morning the engineer declared the system was working perfectly and that it was operator failure our thermostat was set too low. I wondered about this diagnosis as I originally thought that was the problem too. After we had our new door fitted Mr C had turned the thermostat down a degree because the house seemed hot. I think this was because the actuator was running on after the thermostat said the heating should shut down keeping the house hotter than it should have been.

After the new actuator was fitted a couple of weeks ago we noticed that the downstairs of the house felt rather cool. Before Mr C called out an engineer I turned up the thermostat up a degree to where it had originally been, but I wasn’t convinced there was much of difference in temperature downstairs.

When I got home from work this evening the house seemed warm enough but I was cooking dinner rather than sitting down. Over dinner I noticed the dining room seemed rather on the cool side so I went to check the thermostat. It had been turned down again one degree from where it has always been previously set. I turned it back up again!

For me the jury is out on whether the heating system is really working properly. Mr C had artificially raised the temperature of the house by turning the thermostat up to full this morning just to check if the engineer was really needed after all! I was so overheated on the upper floor of our house whilst getting ready for work that I had to open the window to cool off. I enjoyed the wintery blasts more than the heat within!

The second engineer (electrician) arrived and sorted out the plug socket that had been identified as not being earthed. So now I can dry my hair in complete safety, without the chance of ending up with an Afro Frizz.

After all these adventures we were able to book a few days away at Colwall Park for our anniversary. We tried to get the same room we stayed in last time but it was not available that week, leaving us to choose another to enjoy, which is probably for the best

Our heating system hasn’t been right since it was drained after a radiator pipe was broken whilst our ‘smallest room in the house‘ was being refitted in December last year. After the refit our heating system was full of air; the radiators required bleeding for several weeks and some rooms were cooler than they should be.

Even before the refit the heating system had been noisy for some time which finally resulted in the system failing (again), the heat was permanently on although the timer was off. We called out the engineer who identified the problem within a few minutes and fixed it. It is a part of our heating system that fails regularly.

We thought that was the end of all the problems until the weather turned chilly a couple of days ago. The downstairs of the house (which is usually warmer than upstairs) was distinctly chilly. When I touched the radiators they were cold at the bottom which made me think that there is an airlock or limescale debris restricting the free flow of water. An engineer has been called out to investigate on Monday. At the same time an electrician will come and fix the plug socket that had been identified as not being earthed during the last engineer visit.

Apart from that I had a relaxing couple of hours in the hairdressers followed by a delicious evening meal