Morning denizens 
While I slept last night, the temperature of the bedroom didn’t change by so much as a tenth of a degree: 26.8°C when I turned out the light, exactly the same when I awoke
It’s not been a cool night though, and it’s not a cool start: already 24° and striving for 32°, though it looks like the afternoon hourly figures only go up to 31° so maybe the high will be a blip. Still horrid though. The barometers are still ambivalent, being down to 1007/1014mB
There isn’t much breeze but I’ve got the windows open anyway in an attempt to get some relatively cooler air through the place, and the air conditioner in the living room has been on since I got up
Ironically, this morning’s first chore has been to repressurise the boiler. The hot water had started making ominous faint knocking noises even for something as simple as running the tap on the basin in the bathroom for a few seconds and seemed quite unhappy during showers, and the pressure gauge showed it was down to about 0.5 to 0.6 when I checked last night. But one of the two valves that needed to be turned was very stiff, so I left it then. This morning, a pair of pliers gave me the leverage I needed to get the valve turning, so I was able to repressurise it to 1.2 - it didn’t want to go any higher, but the manual says “between 1.0 and 1.5” so that’s fine. And when I showered: no knocking!
N.B. This isn’t a sudden thing, so I don’t believe there’s a leak anywhere; I’ve been looking at it occasionally for well over a year thinking I should do something about it as it gradually got lower, but it’s only in the last couple of weeks that it became increasingly clear the time was now. Apparently it’s done well to have lasted this long without being topped up. I really must get it serviced though
While I slept last night, the temperature of the bedroom didn’t change by so much as a tenth of a degree: 26.8°C when I turned out the light, exactly the same when I awoke
It’s not been a cool night though, and it’s not a cool start: already 24° and striving for 32°, though it looks like the afternoon hourly figures only go up to 31° so maybe the high will be a blip. Still horrid though. The barometers are still ambivalent, being down to 1007/1014mB
There isn’t much breeze but I’ve got the windows open anyway in an attempt to get some relatively cooler air through the place, and the air conditioner in the living room has been on since I got up
Ironically, this morning’s first chore has been to repressurise the boiler. The hot water had started making ominous faint knocking noises even for something as simple as running the tap on the basin in the bathroom for a few seconds and seemed quite unhappy during showers, and the pressure gauge showed it was down to about 0.5 to 0.6 when I checked last night. But one of the two valves that needed to be turned was very stiff, so I left it then. This morning, a pair of pliers gave me the leverage I needed to get the valve turning, so I was able to repressurise it to 1.2 - it didn’t want to go any higher, but the manual says “between 1.0 and 1.5” so that’s fine. And when I showered: no knocking!
N.B. This isn’t a sudden thing, so I don’t believe there’s a leak anywhere; I’ve been looking at it occasionally for well over a year thinking I should do something about it as it gradually got lower, but it’s only in the last couple of weeks that it became increasingly clear the time was now. Apparently it’s done well to have lasted this long without being topped up. I really must get it serviced though
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