Blimey!

Thank you very much Mr. (Or Miss) Mysterious Benefactor!

If you want to let me know who you are I'll buy you a drink sometime! :)

Breaking News on the plumbing front...

Mr. Hurt is back, and he's brought two 'representatives' from the tank manufacturers in Southampton to effect a repair.

They're assembing an oxy-acetelene blowtorch in my hallway!

Eeeeek!

(That oxy tank is huge!) <bites lip>

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Okay, so the tank has been thoroughly torched (<FSSSSSSSSSSSSH!> and we're now waiting for it to refill. Oh and the three plumbing types in the hallway are swapping industry horror stories...

Oh, and now they've all just left. While the tank is still filling. Wonder if I can type underwater?
(glub, glub)

Ook.

Hold everything - we've just set the fire alarm off!

Apparently turning the blowtorch off can do that...

Woohoo!

And that's that!

Apparently all work is done and the hot water tank is now installed. We've lost one shelf of the Airing cupboard (The only one my wife stood any chance of being able to reach), had more mud tracked into our hallway carpet than I'dve thought likely and the pipework in said airing cupboard now looks like a work of modern art (I may post photos...) but WE HAVE WORKING HOT WATER!!!

Woohoo!

(Sings)"La-la-la, I'm having a baaath tonight, yaaay..."

Oh.

And apparently, the new hot water tank has a safety feature to stop it exploding.

That's nice then.