January 4, 2007
Busted
Four days into 2007, second day back at work, and I'm forced to deal with domestic disaster as my shower goes on strike. Those of you that know me will understand the prospect of no showers has me close to a nervous breakdown.
A brief diagnosis (and recollections of last time this happened, when the shower was still under warranty and I could call out an engineer) suggests that the fault lies with the solenoid, since the shower has both power and water but refuses to do anything with either. Ironically my multimeter has a dead (non-standard) battery, so I'm unable to confirm just now.
A new solenoid should now be en route, meanwhile I'm off to buy one of those terribly tasteful rubber shower hoses that you stick on taps. Unfortunately, my retro bathroom (circa the tasteless era) has non-standard taps, so this fallback plan may not work.
The bathroom was next on the DIY to-do, but it looks like I might have to get started this month, rather sooner than expected. Hrmph.
Oh, happy new year by the way ;-)
Posted by savs at January 4, 2007 12:12 PM