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I'm usually one for keeping all sorts of junk. "it will come in useful some day" My wife keeps telling me to throw unused stuff away.
But todays PIR was proof I don't keep enough "junk"
One fault today was a completely missing cover on an immersion heater, in a bedroom. totally unsafe so I disconnected the circuit.
The immersion heater was still working and still in use. It would have been a shame to have to fit a new immersion just for the sake of a missing cover, and looking at the age of the tank wouldn't rate the chances of the tank surviving an immersion heater change more than 50:50
Thankfully my plumber mate came to the rescue. He had a tank in his garage that he had removed and hadn't got around to taking to the scrappie, so I was able to get a replacement cover from one of the heaters on that, so problem solved.
You can never have too much "junk" to hand for such eventualities.
god know how long this property has been rented like that with bare live wires in the cupboard in the bedroom.
But todays PIR was proof I don't keep enough "junk"
One fault today was a completely missing cover on an immersion heater, in a bedroom. totally unsafe so I disconnected the circuit.
The immersion heater was still working and still in use. It would have been a shame to have to fit a new immersion just for the sake of a missing cover, and looking at the age of the tank wouldn't rate the chances of the tank surviving an immersion heater change more than 50:50
Thankfully my plumber mate came to the rescue. He had a tank in his garage that he had removed and hadn't got around to taking to the scrappie, so I was able to get a replacement cover from one of the heaters on that, so problem solved.
You can never have too much "junk" to hand for such eventualities.
god know how long this property has been rented like that with bare live wires in the cupboard in the bedroom.