today is the important day of the year where i bleed the radiators. like a medieval physician employed at the court of the boiler. i have a wadded rag of fabric and this special brass implement which i twist. i have to ensure the 4 humors of the central heating system are in balance: clear water, rusty water, methane, and some kind of fluming effluvium. i think the rusty water represents blood, but don't take my word for it, i'm not an expert. speak to a bearer of the crest of the hound of wales
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@jk If the rusty water is excessive, you may need to sacrifice some more base metal.
@jk my least favourite thing about bleeding radiators is that there's a knack to doing it without soaking the floor or your sleeve, and every year I've forgotten it, and every year, the point at which I get the hang of the technique again is just when I've run out of radiators that need bleeding.
@simontatham i think you have to listen to the sound. there's a point where it goes from 'hiss' to 'gurgle' and you have to be ready. it's sort of like tuning a radio, except if you overshoot you get a load of weird shit on your jeans
@jk @simontatham if your heating is on then you can also note the radiator slowly warming at the water level from the bottom up. When it appraches the top loosely refit the key. And have something absorbent to hold just below the vent and catch any leak as you rush to screw in the key.
@jk UK people would do anything to not use heat pumps 😂
@thomasfuchs are heat pumps quiet yet? i was extremely heat-pump obsessed, i thought they were amazing. and then i heard one. it was awful. theres like 12 flats in my building, and 50+ buildings on my street. i imagined looking out the back window and seeing a thousand boxes on the back walls of all of them. BOSCH. SAMSUNG. with huge fans spinning, screaming all night. if that comes to pass, i'll have to leave the city probably
my pipes are phlegmatic
my boiler is bilious
its manifold melancholy
and all its sensors sanguine;
o pray humor me
with humidity
and heat.
@jk The bearer of the crest is never in when I call, or can't make it over to London, so I have to struggle on myself, untrained, ignorant, fearful.
@jk May the fates be with you, boiler-man