When buying this house we were a bit concerned about the old oil heater. The only time it has been touched was when Mark and Scott played with it after a few beers and had flames flying everywhere. Too scared to touch it since then, we've survived with a tiiiiny fan heater that is warm 20cm in front of it and probably has the electricity meter whirring! After Mark spent several weeks pouring through the ebay heater section and finding gas heaters stupidly expensive I decided to just get out a oil heater guy to see if ours was salvageable. Well what do you know, it's fine!! And we have a full tank of oil sitting there waiting for us. Turns out it was user error (funny about that) so we paid $110 for instructions, lol!
Been a good week for the house, Monday we got a new hot water system installed which gets all the rebates etc like a solar hot system, a fancy
heat pump. It's not all that hot and we have to talk loudly when it's running but hey, it isn't dripping water through our ceiling like the old one so I'm happy!
And yesterday we finally got the puratap installed so we can drink the water without retching :) Sliiight problem in that all the pipes in the kitchen are in the walls so the plumber couldn't access it and it's now installed in our laundry sink but again beggars can't be choosers so I'll take it!
Now hopefully we can spend the weekend finishing unpacking this house and continue on in the backyard. Mark has some birthday money to spend so we might get started on a chook dome for our vegie patch, very exciting!
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