Bloody plumbers

Lobster · 2011-07-08T17:56:43+00:00

Time for a if-you-want-a-job-doing-properly-then-do-it-yourself rant...I booked a local firm of plumbers in today. Main reason was I wanted to have my pressurised HW cylinder checked over, as it was long overdue; in particular as I explained to the manager over the phone I wanted the sacrifical anode looking at, as I wasn't convinced that had actually ever been checked. Pressurised cylinders and gas appliances are the two areas of plumbing I don't go near.Matey comes round this morning, spends some time in the airing cupboard tinkering with the tank. When he's done I ask him, 'was the anode OK then?' 'Oh everythng's fine'. 'But what about the anode - how much life has it got left?' 'Oh it doesn't have an anode'.So I trot downstairs and produce the manual for him, and point to the diagram showing the location of the anode, and the section where it explains how important it is that said anode is checked visually every two years."Oh, well they don't usually have anodes".He duly extracted the thing, and was perhaps slightly sheepish(?) to find that it was mostly eroded away. Hopefully there's enough left to have still been doing its job. Anyway - I've just ordered a new one and having seen how easily it fits, certainly won't be summoning Matey back to fit it....Moving on: I also wanted another job doing while he was there. Reason being that my house is still suffering from a previous attack by plumber, when we had an extension built about 10 years ago. This character (a different one) managed to plumb two downstairs radiators into the primary circuit, which meant they came on in synchrony with the hot water system; and conversely the bathroom towel rail is plumbed in to the central heating circuit. We unfortunately didn't cotton on to the error in long after the Lone Ranger had ridden off into the sunset. Anyway - I've given up on sorting out the downstairs rads (too far from the rest of the CH system), but had decided to divert the towel rail to the...

Bloody plumbers

Jul 08, 2011 83 Replies

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Adrian C 15 years ago

Just illustrating the principle of inserting previous text into a new message. I thought Dave's client was doing something similar to that as a convenience function. It doesn't.

I'm out ...

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Dave Liquorice 15 years ago

blank'.

Yep:

Date: Tue, 12 Jul 2011 23:55:39 +0100 References:

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Dave Plowman (News) 15 years ago

I realise that. But since it's not actually a reply to anything is it rightly in a thread? That is my whole point. If I do a reply to subject it simply appears in time order under the subject heading here and doesn't start a new one. I do realise now some newsreaders can't cope with such a simple requirement, though. ;-)

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John Rumm 15 years ago

If you reply to a message (and "reply blank" sounds like a proper reply

- just with no quoted text), then yes it should appear in the thread - it does not make any difference if you quote any of the original message or not.

Not a case of "can't cope" - more a case of ought not cope. If you manage to create a "reply" post that does not include a references header, then its not actually a reply at all and is just the start of a new thread. The fact that it shares a subject line with some other thread should make no difference - they should be treated separately. The complication is that some (broken) newsreaders will attempt to infer threading based on the subject line alone. Hence why different clients and users get a different experience.

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