Thursday:
\nMy parents arrived. They had had an eventful journey up from Cornwall as
\nthey got stuck in a traffic jam followed by the temperature sensor on the
\ncar radiator failing, causing the engine to overheat. The AA bloke lashed
\na horrid mess of wiring (damaging the car’s wiring in the process) to get
\nthe fan working again.<\/p>\n
Friday: Work. Nothing interesting happened really.<\/p>\n
Saturday: This was the beginning of the fun with the central heating system.
\nThe system has been getting worse and worse reacently, generating a lot of
\ngas which needed to be bled from the radiators on a weekly basis, so it needed
\nclearing out.<\/p>\n
So, Saturday morning my dad and myself set about draining the system and
\nrefilling it with the nasty chemical used to flush the whole lot out. There
\nwere hose pipes everywhere! After finally managing to get the water back
\nin and most of the air locks out we went to do the weekly shop. The evening
\nwas spent trying to watch the latest Harry Potter film on DVD. I say trying
\nto as I got an absolute blinder of a sinus headache and just had to go to
\nbed.<\/p>\n
Sunday: Well, most of Sunday was spent draining, refilling and running the
\nheating system. After the first drain to get rid of the flushing agent, the
\nsystem had to be refilled with the anti-flushing agent agent followed by
\nthe system run on full heat for 2 hours. Once this was done, it was a further
\nthree flushes with clean water so as to get rid of the anti-flcuhing agent
\nagent and anythiong else nasty before refilling ans adding inhibitor solution.
\nThis took all day!<\/p>\n
Monday: Well, this morning my parents went back home. Or at least I hope
\nthey’ve managed to. When my dad plugged in the radiator fan to start it before
\ntravelling home, it didn’t work. A quick test with my multimeter showed that
\nthere was power getting to the fan, so the fan’s kaput! They decided to leave
\ntheir departure until slightly later in the day so as to try to avoid being
\nstopped at any traffic jams and hence having the engine overheat.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
Thursday: My parents arrived. They had had an eventful journey up from Cornwall as they got stuck in a traffic jam followed by the temperature sensor on the car radiator failing, causing the engine to overheat. The AA bloke lashed … Continue reading