Not winter yet
No one wants to think about winter and Christmas comes around too fast. The shops have already started selling the special Christmas foods and my local tesco even has that dedicated aisle of Christmas goodies with a full 3 months to go. It’s mad and for me it’s way too early, and it drives me barmy but there is one good point about it. Seeing something to do with winter reminds a lot of people to turn on their heating to test it. If it’s sat unused all summer of course any number of things can have seized up.
Quite often, even though a plumber will advise a customer to turn their heating on over the summer just to get everything moving through, most people forget or can’t be bothered.
Mind you it’s easy to see why – when you are baking in your shorts the last thing you want to think about is the awful winter that’s on its way. However, if the first time your heating goes on is on the same cold snap weekend in November that the rest of the country turn theirs on and it doesn’t work you may be trying to find a plumber at the same time as hundreds of other people.
It can mean waiting in line and as any plumbing firm will tell you it happens every year.
Of course in a lot of houses the ‘heating turn on’ date is the cause of many a domestic argument. Few couples or families seem to have the same view on what is cold. One person will sit shivering while the other wants to open a window – and for that miss-match it’s marriage guidance you need, not a plumber.