New boiler at WMD HQ.

A model making free day as WMD HQ had a new heating boiler fitted or as our American friends call them a furnace. The old one has been leaking water for several years and probably should have been replaced before now. However at least I have been proactive and had it replaced before it breaks down in the middle of a freezing Winter when heating engineers give installation times in terms of months rather than days! Hope Mrs. Woody is impressed by my pro-activeness in this matter. The only down side was that the new boiler needed testing which meant turning the heating on to full blast on a very hot day. However I can cope far better with that then freezing in Winter.

as you can see by the unpainted brickwork in the garage the new boiler is more compact then the old one and there is a fancy magnetic filter installed to catch any metal fragments that have been formed by the metal radiators that may be floating about in the system before they do any harm to the boiler. It took the heating engineer about 6 hours to do the whole job including replacing the thermoset in the house and putting in a new valve for the motorised valve. I am impressed! 

There is some other work being done at WMD HQ tomorrow and Wednesday but more of that later! In the meantime I can tick off 'New boiler' from Mrs. Woody's list of jobs - if only there were all that easy!