Dull Men's Club
An unofficial chapter of the popular Dull Men's Club.
1. Relevant commentary on your own dull life. Posts should be about your own dull, lived experience. This is our most important rule. Direct questions, random thoughts, comment baiting, advice seeking, many uses of "discuss" rarely comply with this rule.
2. Original, Fresh, Meaningful Content.
3. Avoid repetitive topics.
4. This is not a search engine or advice forum.
Use a search engine, a tradesperson, Reddit, friends, a specialist Facebook group, apps, Wikipedia, an AI chat, a reverse image search etc. to answer simple questions, identify objects or get advice. We accept very few questions, and they must be over topics much more difficult than what is easily discoverable with a search. Also see rule 1, “comment baiting”.
5. Keep it dull. If it puts us to sleep, it’s on the right track. Examples of likely not dull: jokes, gross stuff (including toes), politics, religion, royalty, illness or injury, killing things for fun, or promotional content. Feel free to post these elsewhere.
6. Not hate speech, sexism, or bullying No sexism, hate speech, degrading or excessively foul language, or other harmful language. No othering or dehumanizing of anyone or negativity towards any gender identity.
7. Proofread before posting. Use good grammar and punctuation. Avoid useless phrases. Some examples: - starting a post with "So" - starting a post with pointless phrases, like "I hope this is allowed" or “this is my first post” Only share good quality, cropped images. Do not share screenshots of images; share the original image.
8. All polls must have an "Africa, by Toto" option. Why? Because we hear the drums echoing tonight.
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They inspect the heat exchanger for signs of leaking water, test the efficiency to make sure it's not going to shit (using a special instrument that gets inserted into the flue), replace the filter if it needs it, replace the injector nozzle which is a consumable part, supposed to be changed every year, etc.
This boiler is about 35 years old from what we can tell. Over the past few years the fuel pump failed, the combustion fan failed, and now the part they're waiting on failed (it just got here, by the way). That stuff was covered under the service contract, so we've come out ahead, or at least broke even.
Like anything you can probably just let this type of thing run until it dies, pay for repairs as you go, and hope for the best, but if I'm out of town and my wife has to deal with it, it's game over. This way we just call and it's done.
Sounds like good business! Good on you then.