This is another post about the plumber saga, covered in the "how much is your time worth post". Though that was about trying to squeeze money out of the council.
Basically what happened was some stones got into the ball cock of the water inlet to house. This led to poor inflow of water into house and specifically the hot water system. Leading the girls to run out of hot water very quickly and the system taking all day to refill.
The house had been empty for approximately 3 weeks, before the girls moved in the water worked well. As soon as they moved in it was not working well. One problem we have is that we have to trust the word of the tenants / property manager. Since we live away from Palmerston North where the house is. See "First Thoughts" post for more detail on why we chose this course.
Basically we had to bite the bullet and send the plumber round to look at the system since we couldn't go and do it ourselves. This was a difficult decision, I think mainly because we are both engineers and are skeptical about systems suddenly failing after months / years of trouble free operation. In this case it was the correct decision, however if it had been user error (1 hr showers, and other major uses of the HW etc...) the plumber would have charged us anyway.
Final thoughts: if you are a few hours away from your property like we are, it can be both a weight off your mind and a burden also. I assume that if we lived in the same city as the house we would drive by "just to have a wee look" on a regular basis. However when problems do occur it can be a challenge.
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