Condensate peg missing from boiler flue-any heating engineers or timber experts out there

[Shechemite]

There is no problem. Stop fixating on this kind of stuff. A hobby would help.

 

[nogojones]

panpete

If you've got a wasps nest up there then you've got some kind of access point for the wasps. Right? So there's air going in and out too. Those wasps aren't going to be nestling down in a grubby mucky humid nasty place. are they now. They're probable more concerned than you or I might be about the perfect conditions for their young

But the wasps might sue as their young contracted asthma from the damp conditions

 

[SheilaNaGig]

So Im going to look at this another way.

We love you panpete. That's for sure.

When I hear people worrying about This thing, or about That thing, I wonder how That actual Thing refers back to the person.

Because houses come and go, we come and go. The houses last longer than we do. We move out of the houses and have other lives.

So if you're worrying about rot.... are you worrying being rotted and undermined and invaded? By the anxiety?

 

[Shechemite]

Be kind to yourself Pete.

The perception of risk, and the perception of duty - that you MUST act or else something bad will happen... they are just that - perceptions. It's not your duty to manage every possible danger, and it would be impossible anyway.

Being kind to yourself, giving yourself some slack - they are moral imperatives.

Be kind to yourself

 

[twentythreedom]

There's nothing to worry about in the attic pete, please believe us, we care there are no problems up there, nothing bad is going to happen as a result of your boiler etc. It will be ok

 

[SheilaNaGig]

But the wasps might sue as their young contracted asthma from the damp conditions

Fuck em. Wasps are pretty selfish, I reckon.

 

[twentythreedom]

Wasps are fucking arseholes

 

[nogojones]

and having seen quite a few pictures of your loft now I can assure you I'm suffering from loft envy. Showing off your perfectly fine loft at any opportunity

 

[Mrs Miggins]

It's the middle of the bleeding night here, Missus!

Oops!!
Um....so walking round a park with your headphones on may not be the best thing to do

 

[SheilaNaGig]

Oops!!
Um....so walking round a park with your headphones on may not be the best thing to do

Ah got ma pitbull, i riding

 

[SheilaNaGig]

Ah got ma pitbull, i riding

(thats not hactually the truth. Im fighting a deadline here. got an article to finish up. They only gave me 1500 words but its really going to take twice that to make the argument theyve commissioned.)

 

[BassJunkie]

If that loft wasn't ventilated I'd expect it would be dripping with condensation. It's not. Therefore it's ventilated and there's no problem. I too wish the loft in my house looked so good.

 

[Cid]

and having seen quite a few pictures of your loft now I can assure you I'm suffering from loft envy. Showing off your perfectly fine loft at any opportunity

Yeah your loft is the loft we all wish we had.

 

[panpete]

Be kind to yourself Pete.

The perception of risk, and the perception of duty - that you MUST act or else something bad will happen... they are just that - perceptions. It's not your duty to manage every possible danger, and it would be impossible anyway.

Being kind to yourself, giving yourself some slack - they are moral imperatives.

Be kind to yourself

Thank you

 

[panpete]

Wasps are fucking arseholes

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Does that nest look old and do wasps return to the same nest each year. Thanks

 

[Cid]

Does that nest look old and do wasps return to the same nest each year. Thanks

Pretty sure they don't.

 

[panpete]

Pretty sure they don't.

Thanks

 

[Shechemite]

Thank you

No worries, just go easy on yourself. You're clearly an intelligent and conscientious person, I hope you can find a way to overcome your problems.

 

[panpete]

No worries, just go easy on yourself. You're clearly an intelligent and conscientious person, I hope you can find a way to overcome your problems.

Thank you for your kind words.

 

[nogojones]

Does that nest look old and do wasps return to the same nest each year. Thanks

I'm pretty sure they like a new one each year

 

[Shechemite]

Thank you for your kind words.

Been (and to a small extent still am) in a similar position. I know how much bigger my life has become, and how much more useful I am to others, for having been able to worry less.

It's hard because it's so unintuitive. When you have thoughts in your head, which you don't want and can't escape from, telling you a 'bad thing' is going to happen unlsss you stop it, and that you 'must' stop it, it doesn't seem right to stop worrying. But it is right. You have no duty to manage every hypothetical risk.

Those who haven't lived with this can't really understand - hence the 'get a hobby' comments.

 

[ViolentPanda]

I've just been in my loft and found some more worrying things.
In the first pic, I don't know if the insulation in the far side is covering the eaves.
View attachment 102498 I tried to reassure myself by telling myself that it has been there 7 years and if it was covering the eaves, my ceiling would be mouldy, bedroom smells foisty but that could be due to a rot problem in the room opposite the bedroom, although smells shouldnt get in the bedroom as there is a firedoor and a raised wooden bit on the floor threshold. I tried looking out my bedroom window to see if I could see any insulation hanging out, but I cannot seee the eaves, cos of the fascia board and the way the flat is built. I couldn't reach the roofing felt to see if it was damp or not, so how can I tell, or can anyone here tell me if the insulation looks like it is covering the eaves. I can only feel the roof felt near the loft hatch and that feels fine, but I cannot feel it, right at the far end in the picture and for all I know it could be soaking wet. What indication would I get.?

Also, in the next pic, I am worried that the piece of timber with a red ring around it is rotten.
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Plus there is a wasps nest in there but I dunno if it is an old one, as its only march, and I dunno if wasps use the same nests every year or not.

1) Your flat roof above your boiler will ventilate without eaves. Roofs are not hermetically-sealed environments, they're multi-part assemblages that are rain-tight but not air-tight.

2) Even if your insulation were blocking the eaves, it wouldn't stop the eaves serving their purpose because insulation is porous to air. Ventilation will occur through it.

3) Why do you think the timber is rotten, because it's discoloured? If it were rotten, given that it's part of a roof support, it would at the very least be bowed. As it is, it looks like a reinforcement for the main support, that's got some sawdust on it.

 

[panpete]

Been (and to a small extent still am) in a similar position. I know how much bigger my life has become, and how much more useful I am to others, for having been able to worry less.

It's hard because it's so unintuitive. When you have thoughts in your head, which you don't want and can't escape from, telling you a 'bad thing' is going to happen unlsss you stop it, and that you 'must' stop it, it doesn't seem right to stop worrying. But it is right. You have no duty to manage every hypothetical risk.

Those who haven't lived with this can't really understand - hence the 'get a hobby' comments.

This post makes so much sense to me.
I feel as if I cannot cope with even the smallest tasks at the moment.
I've lost loads of weight and am still losing it.
I find everything really stressful.
I've got a lot going on, its currently revolving around my leasehold flat, but I don't want to go into the ins and outs of that as it will just upset me more.
I do feel like I need loads of reassurance about things and I know it must get on peoles nerves and i am really sorry for this.

 

[panpete]

1) Your flat roof above your boiler will ventilate without eaves. Roofs are not hermetically-sealed environments, they're multi-part assemblages that are rain-tight but not air-tight.

2) Even if your insulation were blocking the eaves, it wouldn't stop the eaves serving their purpose because insulation is porous to air. Ventilation will occur through it.

3) Why do you think the timber is rotten, because it's discoloured? If it were rotten, given that it's part of a roof support, it would at the very least be bowed. As it is, it looks like a reinforcement for the main support, that's got some sawdust on it.

Thanks for this info.

 

[panpete]

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