The pressing needs of a nearing-completion building and Pat out of commission with her post-operation foot have meant that quite a list of serious, diagnosed, but unsolved problems has been building up. None immense in the great scheme of things but cumulatively a big worry. In order of occurrence:
1. THE RAINWATER HARVESTING (RWH) SYSTEM HAD STOPPED WORKING. I have waxed eloquent here before about our disastrous choice of rainwater system - the Kingspan Envireau. I ripped out and scrapped the Kingspan controls and replaced them with a far simpler system which had worked reliably until recently but then just stopped. Particularly frustrating as the WC in the new extension was plumbed for harvested rainwater just as the wretched system broke so we re-plumbed it for mains water OR RWH water to enable it to work either way. The symptoms and the gurglings suggested to me that a filter was blocked and sure enough that was it. Filter unscrewed, cleared out of an awaful lot of gloop, re-assembled and voila! Water bills halved once more.
2, THE FISHER AND PAYKEL FRIDGE FREEZER RE-INSTALLATION WE had been given this amazing machine when Well House was sold and it has been 'stored' here in the open air for more than two years, suffering two freezing winters unused. These F&P machines are horribly expensive and complicated. Plugging it in produced and un-Googleable Fault Code F31 on the screen. Would it work? How to re-install it? Did we actually want it in view of its running costs in filters especially? Meantime darling daughter Lorna had actually bought a new one for her kitchen in Gerrards (every other car's a BMW or above) Cross? F&Ps are made in Australia or NZ and we wondered if there was a UK technician to be had. No problem it turned out. Len from Halifax did the job in no time. F31 was a new one even for Len - turned out to be a broken wire in a door hinge, soon soldered and insulated. "How's your water here?" asked Len. "The very best" I replied. "No need for filters then" and he plumbed it in for direct supply for the ice maker and chilled water thingy. F&P B.A.A.F. (see earlier posts) up and running perfectly.
3. THE TVS NEEDING RE-TUNING Settle lies right on a local TV area boundary*. Ours comes from Winter Hill in Lancashire so we cannot get Look North Yorkshire but we have come to terms with that. Trouble is that the Winter Hill transmitter has just been reconfigured so retunes of every TV are needed. Recent TVs (of which we have two) re-tune themselves but our kitchen TV is a 15 year old Samsung which would not have it, Much Googling, YouTube-ing and swappings of remotes between Samsungs today cracked the problem. Result.
4. THE DUCKING FOG'S FOOT Poor Bess, as reported here, has been wearing one of those comical conical collars to stop her disturbing her right rear foot to enable it to heal. Today was C-Day for Bess. Collar removed and dog very, very happy indeed. No longer does she bump into things with a head twice as wide as it was.
* No real problem local news-wise as Sweet Fanny Adams newsworthy happens here most of the time. An exception was last weekend when Settle was cut off by road because of the floods, which made it to the national news anyway. Slightly annoying as the railway did not close, the Victorians knowing a thing or two about rivers and floods.
So all is well in the world again, apart from poor Pat still being confined to a wheelchair��Glad you have the other problems sorted especially Bess!!
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