Unbeliever wrote:
Uncle Peter wrote:
On Sun, 11 Jan 2015 21:03:29 -0000, Unbeliever
wrote:
Uncle Peter wrote:
On Sun, 11 Jan 2015 19:15:10 -0000, Unbeliever
wrote:
Uncle Peter wrote:
Anyone turn the pilot light of their boiler or gas fire off in
summer?

Of course, it goes off every time it has ignited the gas burner -
doesn't yours do that then?

It struck me it would cost a lot of gas over the year (and from
what I've read it's anything from £25 to £90 a year).

It would only cost that if the pilot light was left on all the
time, now because mine only lights up when the electronic igniter
turns the gas on and that little blue spark thing does it job and
sets the gas alight it save me a lot of cash. Dont yours do that
then?

The only spark thing on mine is manual, and used to light the pilot
light if I've turned it off. The pilot remains on 24/7 ready to
ignite the burner when the boiler decides to run.

The you really are an idiot allowing the pilot light to burn in such
a manner, only idiots with little knowledge do that these days with
the cost of gas the way it is - and you fall into that group!

It's how the boiler is designed.

Sigh at the idiocy of the statement - I know full well it's designed that
way, but you lack the intelligence to do anything about - which according to
some figures I've seen, would save around £5000 a year by changing it to an
energy efficient one!

Crap, show the figures.

Then I found this! "With the pilot off, there are still trace
amounts of gas molecules in the burner and pilot tubes of your
fireplace. The gas companies add a chemical called Mercaptan to
the gas which gives it that lovely odor we all know. Spiders are
attracted to the smell of the Mercaptan and will sometimes build
webs in the pilot and burner tubes when the flow of gas is off. So
when you go to turn on your fireplace in the early fall or late
summer, it will not work, and you will have to call you local
installer to come service the unit. This will cost money."

A load of Yankee ******** (not a Yank are you Uncle Peter?) If you
are, then that would explain many things about you. As for spiders
building their webs there, when the sparky thing or a match lights
the pilot light that will set fire to the webs and the spiders
making the gas easier to light

Maybe, depends how thick the web in the pipe is. Gas isn't that
high a pressure.

Who's talking about gas pressure? A match will burn a spider's web
alone and when the pilot fires up, then the spider will also fry!

The web could be back away from the match.

Bloody hell, a live and kicking spider's web! Roaring with laughter.

I've yet to see a spider's web "back away" from any match, I've seen them
'shiver' with the rising heat, but *never*, *never* back away from one. Now
the old spider, that is a different matter, they do "back away" a bit with
hot match chasing them. vbg


after afer
its couple of weeks rest in this country and that will stop the
installer having to come and service it. I've just thought of
something, doesnt an installer fit the gas thingy - it must be
bloody expensive where you live then to have to have a new gas
boiler fitted every year just because your too dumb to call out gas
service engineer rather than an installer?

That was a quote from a website, hence the " marks. I never said
anything about an installer or engineer.

Then it shows your incapability to comprehend the information that
you read before re-posting it.

The important thing was the spider, not who comes to sort it.

Are you really that dense to believe that rubbish?

Uncle Peter, I've refrained from getting involved with your idiotic
attempts at posting as if you are an illiterate, but you have given
me such a smile at this latest load of ******** of yours I couldn't
resist responding. Thank you

Your English above is terrible. "after afer its couple of weeks
rest"

A touch of the Kettle calling the old saucepan black with just a
smidgeon of hypocrisy on your part is rather obvious with the lack
of your command of the English in your posts - and (from a previous
thread) your parrots could teach you a thing or two about language
usage.

Contrarywise. You called me illiterate, without even checking your
paragraph above for two ****ups.

Only "two ****ups" - I could easily find a post of yours with many, many
more than "two". And an even bigger grin at that!


Still laughing at you old son and enjoying it, so carry on posting
the drivel, only keep the foul language down.

Ah. You're one of those morons that doesn't like foul language, that
says it all.

Foul language used in the right situations doesn't bother me at all, and in
fact, I occasionally use it myself when *talking* in like-minded groups of
people that I know - but generally when you use it as every-day language, it
shows a great lack of command of the English language which is a good sign
of illiteracy, sadly of which many of your posts confirm.

Ergo, I consider those who use "foul language" as an excuse "morons" - of
which you are certainly one!