10-07-12, 02:04 PM
Thanks for all the replies, my wife kind of jumped the gun this morning and practically told him to eff off and that he was ripping us off.
He did go and remove the stone jamming the valve open at the tank pdq though and then fed me a line of bullshit about it making the oil flow free-er up to the house.
Still, in the end it turned out to be the pump not creating enough vacuum to pull the oil up from the tank. I made sure that everything else was clear and we tried two different burners before deciding to switch the pump.
So unless he had another trick up his sleeve at the boiler end preventing the oil flowing then I guess I'll just have to trust him.
House is warm now, finally we can start trying to shift the damp!
He did go and remove the stone jamming the valve open at the tank pdq though and then fed me a line of bullshit about it making the oil flow free-er up to the house.
Still, in the end it turned out to be the pump not creating enough vacuum to pull the oil up from the tank. I made sure that everything else was clear and we tried two different burners before deciding to switch the pump.
So unless he had another trick up his sleeve at the boiler end preventing the oil flowing then I guess I'll just have to trust him.
House is warm now, finally we can start trying to shift the damp!