First-World Problems.

[Mr Larrington]

Pretty sure. 

I did a lot of cooking last weekend and froze it in batches, plus there's chicken legs for Pete and a chopped up ox heart too.

So did you murder Mr Van Vliet or are you just concealing the evidence

[perpetual dan]

I have a voucher to spend, but really can't think of anything I want to get with it.
(I feel I ought to mostly get something I can point to and say "I got this with it", so a supply of brake blocks doesn't really work.)

[Mrs Pingu]

There's no chef's knife, cheese grater or washing machine in our holiday apartment.

[Mrs Pingu]

And there's nowhere to sit outside.

[Cudzoziemiec]

Pretty sure. 

I did a lot of cooking last weekend and froze it in batches, plus there's chicken legs for Pete and a chopped up ox heart too.

So did you murder Mr Van Vliet or are you just concealing the evidence

She has at least got rid of his trousers!

[Eccentrica Gallumbits]

The en-suite toilet in the room of my Versailles hotel has been running noisily for hours.

[Tigerrr]

The temperature gauge on my sous vide shows consistently 2 degrees over. As a result the very rare steaks came out medium rare and dinner was ruined.

[Mr Larrington]

The button to select the desired input on my anbaric distascope works sequentially for the first n seconds after switch-on, but after that I have to use the arrow keys on the remote.  Why oh why can it not just do one or the other?

[citoyen]

Whilst cleansing myself in the shower on Saturday evening I had reason to discover that a power shower needs power as everything went dark. I had to soapily tip-toe across the bathroom and use the non-power shower above the bath. It's so weak. I don't know how people in poor countries without rainfall showers survive. It must be terrible for them, like shopping at Lidl.

One of the benefits of a combi boiler is mains pressure hot water.

Of course, modern boilers still need power for the CPU that makes them work. 

Likewise newfangled electrical button-operated bath taps.

[Mr Larrington]

Ever since The Man replaced the Victorian water mains around here the water pressure went all to pot and the difference between being frozen utterly to DETH under the shower and being boiled alive is about 0.00001 degrees of cold tap rotation.

[Mrs Pingu]

Mr L needs a thermostatic shower mixer. ..

[Feanor]

One of the benefits of a combi boiler is mains pressure hot water...

... at a rather modest flowrate.

Mains pressure in a stored HW cylinder FTW!
( google megaflo, and similar. )

[Feanor]

Ever since The Man replaced the Victorian water mains around here the water pressure went all to pot and the difference between being frozen utterly to DETH under the shower and being boiled alive is about 0.00001 degrees of cold tap rotation.

If your shower mixer is getting mains-pressure cold on one side, and gravity-pressure HW from a loft tank on t'other side, this is never going to end well.

Even a thermostatic mixer will struggle to deal with this.
It needs re-plumbed.

Either feed both sides from the loft header tanks ( with a pump for adder vvvroom );
Or upgrade the DHW cylinder to mains pressure ( megaflo and the like ) so both sides are at mains pressure.

Oh, and as mentioned already, you could lose the HW cylinder totally, and go with a combi heat-on-demand thing, which also gives mains pressure HW.

[Kim]

One of the benefits of a combi boiler is mains pressure hot water...

... at a rather modest flowrate.

It's only modest if you compare it to a...

Mains pressure in a stored HW cylinder FTW!
( google megaflo, and similar. )

Compared to a landlord-issue 7k5W electric shower, on the other hand, it's luxury.

[Mr Larrington]

Oh, and as mentioned already, you could lose the HW cylinder totally, and go with a combi heat-on-demand thing, which also gives mains pressure HW.

It IS a combi heat-on-demand thing, and it only started playing silly buggers after the water mains were replaced.

[Feanor]

Hmm, only a couple of things come to mind.

Water-mains wrangling usually introduces some crud into the supply for a while.
If the mixer is thermostatic, it's possible some crud is jamming up the works preventing it operating smoothly.

The only other thing that comes to mind is that the boiler may not be modulating correctly.
It may be just cycling on / off depending on flowrate.
Doesn't really sound like this, tho.

[Jurek]

The story I've heard is that Thames Water have turned down the pressure so that they can look you in the eye and say 'We're losing x-amount of water less through leaks in the system, than we were last year'.

[Mr Larrington]

The mixer isn't thermostatic but rather a huge retro-styled metal contraption engineered by a moonlighting designer of Victorian signal boxes.  I rather like it and in any case prefer baths to showers.

[mcshroom]

The story I've heard is that Thames Water have turned down the pressure so that they can look you in the eye and say 'We're losing x-amount of water less through leaks in the system, than we were last year'.

Not a story - part of the plan, and they have even installed booster pumps for tower blocks to allow them to lower the pressure. (Ex Thames Waster employee)

[ian]

Whilst cleansing myself in the shower on Saturday evening I had reason to discover that a power shower needs power as everything went dark. I had to soapily tip-toe across the bathroom and use the non-power shower above the bath. It's so weak. I don't know how people in poor countries without rainfall showers survive. It must be terrible for them, like shopping at Lidl.

One of the benefits of a combi boiler is mains pressure hot water.

Of course, modern boilers still need power for the CPU that makes them work. 

Likewise newfangled electrical button-operated bath taps.

Such is the nature of progress (having just spent an extra hour getting home because the driver couldn't verify one of the automatic train door was correctly shut).

Our ancient boiler also won't work without electricity, but the tank of hot water does. We didn't pump both showers on the grounds I expect the pump, like all newfangled things, to die one day and take a week to fix.

But still, I'm used to the simulated rainfall of warm water which is disgustingly decadent. And a digital temperature setting and light that only comes on when the water is perfect. Anything less is slipping back into the dark ages.

[Tewdric]

No lemon for my gin and tonic earlier.  I toughed it out.

[Andrij]

No lemon for my gin and tonic earlier.  I toughed it out.

Lime.  Always.

[clarion]

I went to make a cup of tea in the kitchen next door to our office.  All the crockery and cutlery was clean and put away,  so no problem there.

I used one of the pyramidal one-cup teabags with which we are supplied,  and poured on the boiling water.  There was no welcome aroma of tea brewing.  Nothing.

I extracted the bag to find it had been manufactured with barely a shred of tealeaf inside!  Imagine my horror.

i was forced to get another bag out and mash it in the standing water.

Horrifying.  I may need counselling to get beyond the trauma.

[jsabine]

I went to make a cup of tea in the kitchen next door to our office.  All the crockery and cutlery was clean and put away,  so no problem there.

I used one of the pyramidal one-cup teabags

Surely this post need have gone no further.

[Cudzoziemiec]

That is not a first world problem, it is a crisis of almost existential proportions.