We finally have some heating 14.01.13

We finally have some heating 14.01.13

We’re up bright and early as we are going to go shopping for our new heater system, I’m a bit nervous as I have not had to speak French for quite some time; the shop is crazy busy, it appears there are big January sales in France!

There is a person working on the aisle where we want to buy the heater from but there are about 3 other people waiting so I try a bloke on a different aisle, I manage to ask in French, but he is tiles and decorating, not heating so can’t help.

We go back and wait, we are in the shop for over an hour before finally getting served and then he does 3 of us at the same time, I have never seen a shop assistant run so much, he must’ve been knackered, he was up and down the store so many times, it was a bit unfortunate that I didn’t manage to ask for everything at once and my eyesight is not what it once was and could not see the name of what we wanted or knew how to ask for it so after lots of pointing and uh uhing we finally got what we wanted.

We also managed to ask for the pipe to go with it, which was so expensive at 24 euro a metre; we buy 10 metres for a start. We also buy 10 metres of insulation for the pipe which was much better value as this was 24 euro for the 10 metres.

When we return home John makes a start at putting the heating system in, it’s at this point that we realise the very expensive pipe was not the correct one, bugger, we had bought chimney flue instead, which isn’t a major problem as we will need the flue for the chimney at some point.

By the end of the night we have one end in the living room behind us, this is not where it will stay but we wanted to try it out and you’d be amazed at how well it worked, we had warmth in front of us and behind us for the first time YAY.

The heat is not as hot as the one we had felt at Sheila and Brian’s but it is not fully installed yet so keep your fingers crossed for us.

We also realise that the wood supply that we had in the barn is depleting very quickly so we decide to give the log delivery guys a ring and order some cut logs.