Hot Water

When its a cold winter morn, one of life's smaller luxuries is to slip into a warm relaxing bath. I'm sure you can all picture the seen, you turn on the hot tap, slowly steam fills the bathroom, clouding the shaving mirror as you drag the razor across your chin.

Its time to add the cold, to temper a bath hot enough to cook a lobster...

So how do you react when after turning on the cold tap, you find that water coming out of it is even hotter than the still steaming flow from the hot tap.

Then a family member shouts 'there's steam coming out of the toilet!'

Yes my boiler is trying to ensure that whatever the outside temperature, my house is has the humidity and warmth more usually found on the equator.

Somehow my boiler has created a feed back loop so not only is it heating the water it contains but also the cold water reservoir in the loft, while making sounds like a battleship boiler as it engages the enemy more closely for the last time.

It has now been turned off (so its not going to explode)and until the emergency plumber arrives its going to be cold showers around here.