I Wouldn't Have Bought It

[poliphilo]

The thermostat for the boiler is in the kitchen which means that when you put the cooker on it heats the kitchen up a treat and all the radiators in the rest of the house go cold. I had the kitchen doors open yesterday afternoon- with the rain bucketing down outside- in the hope that the boiler would fire up and warm my mother in the living room.

No-one ever really thought this house through. It's a 19th century farm cottage with bits tacked on haphazardly. I thought of adding, "that's its charm" but it isn't a charming house- (it's not pretty or quaint- there are no bare beams or fireplaces you could stable a pony in)-  just an inconvenient one.  There was a guy sniffing around the other day- we got a phone call, then a letter- saying how he'd like to be informed if we ever put it on the market- and I found myself telling him how he really wouldn't want to live here.

Comments

[shewhomust.livejournal.com]

My mother once lived in a house in which two rooms had been knocked through, leaving a fireplace between them, with a splendid open fire. The thermostat for the central heating was on the chimney breast. The builders who had installed this were allegedly professionals.

[poliphilo.livejournal.com]

One can only stand and marvel...

[artkouros.livejournal.com]

Maybe you can set up a fan to circulate air through the kitchen. Or you could move the thermostat - they're pretty simple.

[resonant.livejournal.com]

In the short term, tape an icepack to the thermostat.

[artkouros.livejournal.com]

Or just turn it up when you cook.

[poliphilo.livejournal.com]

I like that.

I'm all for home-made solutions.

[poliphilo.livejournal.com]

There's an extractor fan over the cooker.

Moving the thermostat seems like the simplest solution.