Electrics

Anyone see that advert where the guy is testing a light switch and the garage door is opening and closing on some poor dear's car, several houses down the road? I think I'm living there.

Two days ago, the oil company guy came and serviced our oil boiler which is outside, under the deck in a little boiler house. I asked him to show me how to control the water temperature, and he did. He also left the light on in the boiler room, which we noticed that night. After it stopped raining yesterday, I went down to the boiler room, switched off the light and immediately shut and locked the door which had blown open.

We had hot water this morning, a little less hot than usual but I thought it was because we'd reduced the water temperature.

Then at midday I ran some hot water in the kitchen sink--except it wasn't "hot", it was "lukewarm" at best. Checked both taps/faucets to make sure I wasn't running the cold water. Wasn't that. Went down to the boiler room. Everything was quiet. Turned the water temperature up a little. Nothing happened. Turned it up a little more. Still nothing.

Thought, darn, I have to call the oil company already on the service plan. I'm glad I took out the contract.

Noticed that the light was still on. Thought I'd switched it off the day before. Maybe I'd just switched it on automatically when I opened the door.

I switched the light off again.

And the boiler came to life immediately...

The light is still on. It's probably the fourth switch from the right in the living room that switches it off. That's one of the twenty that I haven't found a purpose for yet.