Second bite of Covid

[Tim Marlow]

Sorry to hear the news Tim, get better asap

Cheers Bob. I intend to LOL….

[Tim Marlow]

Sorry to read this. as you say: goodness for your jabs.

peter

Thanks Peter.

[Tim Marlow]

Oh Bugger..... That`s bad news Tim:confounded:......
Keep yourself tucked up and cosy mate :sick::sleeping::thumb2:,
Andy

Cheers Andy, that’s more or less what I said. Love to keep cosy, but our heating is on the blink at the mo….bloody microbore pipes. The engineer is due back Friday for the third go at unblocking it…at least it isn’t too cold out at present.

[Mr Bowcat]

Just seen this thread Tim. I'm in the same club after getting C19 (or as a mate calls it the Kung Flu) for the 2nd time a couple of weeks ago.

First bout was almost 2 years ago to the day, very unpleasant with aches, shivers and generally feeling lousy for two weeks straight. This time round I wouldn't even have known I had it if I hadn't tested positive. Guess the vaccines work.

[Tim Marlow]

Hi Bob.
Cheers for the reply, and hope you are feeling better now. My first bout was also two years ago, pretty much to the day. I was rough for ages during the first bout, not feeling normal for a good month. This time I was convinced it was a cold, right up until I tested positive and the cough started up yesterday afternoon. Felt awful first thing today, but that lifted about an hour ago, along with the worst of the cough, so hopefully it’s on the way out now.
I completely agree ref. Vaccines. They work well and have saved a great number of lives. My immune system is much more compromised now than it was two years ago because my RA meds have been significantly increased to cope with the illness. Without vaccines I would probably be in significantly worse shape than I am.
Nice to know that the industry I worked in most of my life stepped up when needed :thumb2:

[rtfoe]

Sorry to read about your second dose of corvid even if its mild compared to your first one. Thankfully the jabs are working and also thankfully its not a mutated version that requires a further new jab.
I think my daughter and I are asymptomatic and haven't caught it even when we had a brush with close contacts and even when SWMBO tested positive we were negative.
Stay safe and get well.

Cheers,
Richard

[Tim Marlow]

Thanks Richard. It’s definitely a mutated version though, because like many other virus types (such as influenza) it can change as it moves through a population. It’s just a numbers game. The more times it replicates, the more chance there is that it will eventually change. Glad you’ve avoided it though. I’m like that with mumps. Despite all my mates and relations getting it as kids, I never did :thumb2:

[Guest]

Since our surgeries have been taken over chaos has followed , so bad in fact after the last the practice was reviewed by the GMC it was labeled inadequate !
So good luck today .
J/R Qoute
HI John an christine we hope you are better soon an up an about to get out in your lovely garden but may i ask who has taken over your surgery an caused chaos ? BUT if you dont want to ansawer i fully understand
chrisb

Chris , CQC Inspection gave it inadequate rating , run by some large company called Lakeside Healthcare !
I've found the doctors ok along with many of the staff you couldn't wish for a nicer bunch , it's just the take over from a small well run surgery to a much larger one combing all the other surgeries in Stamford .The manager appears to be under a struggle , closing one surgery, before they had planning permission to extend a newer one . That was refused so had to reopen our old surgery.Not locals running it so they don't care .

[Tim Marlow]

Chris , CQC Inspection gave it inadequate rating , run by some large company called Lakeside Healthcare !
I've found the doctors ok along with many of the staff you couldn't wish for a nicer bunch , it's just the take over from a small well run surgery to a much larger one combing all the other surgeries in Stamford .The manager appears to be under a struggle , closing one surgery, before they had planning permission to extend a newer one . That was refused so had to reopen our old surgery.Not locals running it so they don't care .

That’s exactly what happened in Salisbury. The surgeries all combined to build a so called super surgery, which would be more efficient and cost effective…..until the plans were turned down. Meanwhile the current surgeries were left to atrophy while the planning process went on, reducing capacity to a point where they couldn’t cope. These companies concentrate on the money making business side, and ignore the fact they are actually running a service, not selling tins of beans :rolling:

[stillp]

heating is on the blink at the mo….bloody microbore pipes. The engineer is due back Friday for the third go at unblocking it…at least it isn’t too cold out at present.

Been there, got the t-shirt.
At last (touch wood) after several years struggling with our system, it seems to be working alright - we had it powerflushed (no difference), a new boiler to fix some leaks, all the radiators changed (no difference), a filter fitted (no difference), changed from a vented system to sealed and pressurised (no difference except I don't have to keep bleeding the rads) then eventually a chap came who had a car footpump fitted with an adaptor to connect to the radiator pipes - he blew back through the pipe to the kitchen radiator, and cleared a partial blockage, which seems so far to have fixed the problems.
Oh, and 3 out of the 7 thermostatic valves fitted with the new rads were faulty!
Pete

[Tim Marlow]

Been there, got the t-shirt.
At last (touch wood) after several years struggling with our system, it seems to be working alright - we had it powerflushed (no difference), a new boiler to fix some leaks, all the radiators changed (no difference), a filter fitted (no difference), changed from a vented system to sealed and pressurised (no difference except I don't have to keep bleeding the rads) then eventually a chap came who had a car footpump fitted with an adaptor to connect to the radiator pipes - he blew back through the pipe to the kitchen radiator, and cleared a partial blockage, which seems so far to have fixed the problems.
Oh, and 3 out of the 7 thermostatic valves fitted with the new rads were faulty!
Pete

Blimey that sounds rough Peter. We’ve had most of that done as well now, but not all due to problems.…….
When we moved in our system had a very old boiler, no thermostat (the previous occupants just turned it on and off), and pretty much an unlagged hot water cylinder, but we knew all that from the survey.
First thing I had done was got a thermostat fitted, so at least we had some control. After that we were OK for about six months until the boiler started failing. We then had that replaced, along with the cylinder and had thermostatic valves fitted while the system was drained. This was done by a plumber who was also fitting bathrooms for us. Things were OK for a while, but in the summer the oil storage tank started failing, so we had that replaced. During our second winter the radiator output started reducing, some having little output, and we started getting a lot of air in the system. I thought the pump was stating to fail, so got a heating engineer in to review and replace whatever needed doing. The pump appears fine, and is relatively new (I was very surprised) so he thought it was system blockage in the microbore pipes causing overpumping and so introducing air. He has now spent two full days flushing and pumping through blockage after blockage trying to restore flow to the system, and has had to replace most of the header tank because it was badly corroded and putting rubbish into the system. He’s back again today, bringing a plumber with him to get a second pair of eyes on the problem. The loops appear pretty clear now, not much rubbish is being pulled out by the large mag filters we’ve had temporarily fitted for a fortnight, but we are still getting very poor flow.
If I’d known then what I know now I would have simply had the whole lot repiped with 15mm pipe when we moved in. The design (hesitate to call it that really) of our system is pretty poor, with little head pressure. We can’t really go to a pressurised system because we don’t know the state of the pipes between the floors. With what I’ve learned over the last year I could probably design it better myself :disappointed2:

[adt70hk]

Hope you're doing ok Tim....my better half is currently isolating in Junior's bedroom having tested positive yesterday.... At the moment it's like a very nasty cold, with a very bad headache... :sad:

[stillp]

Tim, I was worried about the possibility of leaks if we went to a sealed system too, but we'd tried everything else. The pressure isn't much - 1 to 1.5 bar, about 15 - 20 psi, so not a great deal more than the head from the header tank.
We had all the upstairs carpets replaced last autumn, before going to a sealed system, and the circulation in the heating was a lot better afterwards. Of course the carpet fitters had been hammering the grippers and the carpets down, and the vibration must have loosened some of the crap in the pipes, but the effect didn't last very long.
Repiping wasn't really an option for me as there wouldn't be enough access without stripping the house!
Are you in a hard water area? At one time we had a blockage in the 22mm primary system, which I managed to locate as being near the 'cold junction', where the primary, expansion pipe and cold water inlet come together. I cut out a section of pipe and found it was completely furred up, the whole in the middle was no more than 1 or 2 mm diameter. I had to drill the scale out of a part I couldn't replace as it went below the floor, and put a new section to replace what I'd cut out.

[Tim Marlow]

Hope you're doing ok Tim....my better half is currently isolating in Junior's bedroom having tested positive yesterday.... At the moment it's like a very nasty cold, with a very bad headache... :sad:

Hi Andrew. Mine started exactly the same way, and I didn’t test positive for three days…….the cough didn’t start until I tested positive….it’s pretty much gone now after six days, just a residual occasional cough and tiredness. Mind you, herself now has the same symptoms, started yesterday, and is also not testing positive yet…

[Tim Marlow]

Tim, I was worried about the possibility of leaks if we went to a sealed system too, but we'd tried everything else. The pressure isn't much - 1 to 1.5 bar, about 15 - 20 psi, so not a great deal more than the head from the header tank.
We had all the upstairs carpets replaced last autumn, before going to a sealed system, and the circulation in the heating was a lot better afterwards. Of course the carpet fitters had been hammering the grippers and the carpets down, and the vibration must have loosened some of the crap in the pipes, but the effect didn't last very long.
Repiping wasn't really an option for me as there wouldn't be enough access without stripping the house!
Are you in a hard water area? At one time we had a blockage in the 22mm primary system, which I managed to locate as being near the 'cold junction', where the primary, expansion pipe and cold water inlet come together. I cut out a section of pipe and found it was completely furred up, the whole in the middle was no more than 1 or 2 mm diameter. I had to drill the scale out of a part I couldn't replace as it went below the floor, and put a new section to replace what I'd cut out.

Definitely a hard water area, and we have both a plumber and a heating engineer on the case now. They’ve just repiped the feed to the header tank because it was poor, so we’ll see…..
Good call about the carpet fitting. Just before this we had a bedroom and stairs carpeted so that could have dislodged crap that has subsequently bunged up the pipes….all our heating pipes run under the upstairs floor…..