Sigh

[Kwikasfuki]

The other half managed to put £55 quid of unleaded instead of diesel into the car today. £200 charged by the AA to fix it (towed it home today, fuel out tomorrow morning).

Then I come in and find an electricity bill for £250 for the last month (just moved into new house, final bill whilst we change suppliers). Panic mode as I'm sure they've cocked up somewhere. Check the bill and the meter readings are correct. Notice the dial is spinning like mad. Slowly turn everything off at the fuses. Bloody immersion heater has been on all the time.

So glad we didn't pay the asking price for the house. Too many little things that need sorting out. Unfortunately they all add up. Eating into the GTR fund 

[Lonewolf]

Asif, hope you weren't too harsh on the wife. Can the unleaded be recycled when its extracted or does it get dumped?


I'd of thought your mansion would have had one of those new fangled condensing boilers rather than an immersion heater, I'd get that ripped out pronto! Perhaps your gardener can use the unleaded in the sit on mower. 


Glad you've mentioned the GTR, any developments? Tis a good time to buy at this time of the year.

[Kwikasfuki]

It'd be contaminated with diesel and unleaded. Doubt it can be reused.

The house has two boilers that work in tandem. I just had to get them replaced. That cost 3k - ouch. The immersion heater is in the unvented water cylinder. It heats up from the boiler and/or immersion heater. Immersion heater is now switched off.

Next year I'll probably get a wood burning stove installed. Plenty of trees around here!

[O.C.]

That's bad news Asif, sorry to hear about the leccy bill

But on a brighter note, I hope that you and yours are very happy in your new home 

[Kwikasfuki]

Its a grand house and I've finally got a double garage but no bloody bike to put in it!

[O.C.]

Its a grand house and I've finally got a double garage but no bloody bike to put in it!

I'm sure that will soon be rectified, and them we'll all want loads of pictures 

[JohnnyTh]

sell it to someone with a military truck if you know any:)

[Ros]

Oh wow... Sorry to hear about that. What a nightmare.  I had similar teething problems in my new house when I bought it in France. Only it was a smellier problem concerning the sewage system....



Good luck getting it sorted and don't be too hard on the missus... I doubt she'll do that again!

Cheers

Ros

[Kwikasfuki]

We've had the drains and gutters cleared out. TBH, they need replacing.
In one of the them there was a garden growing.

[2kwacks]

new's about the boiler don't be to hard on her putting petrol in a diesel tank and vise versa is a regular occurrence where I work. I use to have a double garage till the wife decided to extend the kitchen. she is a green finger fanatic so extending into the garden was not a option instead she moaned at me that much, I eventually agreed to extend into my garage taking up a dam good 1/4 of the floor space I can just about get my car and 2 bikes in there now, but it's a dam tight fit so the car mostly stays up the path

[Ros]

My garage is a stupid shape... It's a 1 1/2 length garage, so 2 bikes up the far end, with some tyres, two big road cases and my drums with the car up front.  Of course if I need to get at the bike ( or the drums, for that matter) i have to remove the car, which I inevitably scratch with my biking boots...

Obviously I'd prefer a shorter double garage, but then this is an apartment building, so no luck...

Ros

[patrick]

Ah.....  the advantage of a company car!  I've filled my Diesel car with unleaded twice and while it was a pain to be delayed etc at least it didn't cost me personally.

The first time was after a bank holiday weekend when id been on the bike lots and probably went for unleaded without thinking. The second was at a sainsbury site where the hoses were strange colours.!

As for garages, I've jsut moved house and now have a single instead of a double so the bike has to be put carefully as close to the wall as i can. A large shed will be going into the garden soon so all the non bike stuff will be moved out and the gtr will again have its own  (well mostly its own) space.

[O.C.]

Spose I'm lucky, as one of the considerations for buying my house years ago was the size of what is now known as the Rev Shed, which is plenty big enough for all my toys ...............6mtrs X 6 mtrs, and 5.5 mtrs high to the ridge, Block built, Double Glazed, two floors, heated, insulated and water on tap...its luverly 

Am I bragging ?     ...YEP, you betcha    Sorry, I got a bit ahead of myself there.

[BigAlan]

Roger, the saying if you have it flaunt it comes to mind, I also am a little lucky as I have a double garage with Axminster carpet all round, electric, lighting, good workbench and heated, I quite like spending time in there tinkering.

Alan

[Ros]

My sister just removed her V-Max from my garage after 2 years...

I'm desperately trying not to fill the resultant hole with a K1600GTL.................



Moral support required!!