To think this is really inconvenient ?

[darkcloudlooming]

So national grid are replacing the gas pipes on my street and in my home.. ( why don't people just stick to the saying if it's not broken don't fix it!) so today is 'my appointment' for them to come and disconnect my gas to do this. So I had to allow them in at 8am this morning ( I told them to come back at 9 as I said I had breakfast and kids to get off at school) so they came and disconnected it and now I have to wait all evening between 4pm-8pm for them to restore my gas supply. So they could come at any point whilst I'm cooking and I will have to cook tea ( gas cupboard is in my kitchen next to my cooker in a cupboard!)
So now my kids will have to eat their tea whilst having strangers come in and out of the house. It's annoyed me! And we have had no hot water all day!
Am I being unreasonable to think this is inconvenient and unacceptable ?

I have to have the heating on in the evening because like I said, it's cold! Also because the house is old if we go for shower and the house is cold then we start to get mould on the walls so we need the heating on to keep a balance..

Open the bloody window then! Exactly what we used to tell moaning minnies when I worked in housing. Houses are supposed to be ventilated which is what stops mould. I have an old house in rural Scotland with no heating or hot water since the mice ate their way through the pipes a few years ago. We also get regular power cuts in the winter. I manage to keep warm despite all that.

Put a jersey and warm socks on, stick a hot water bottle in the bed, cuddle up and you will be fine. Better still, next time be prepared and don't cut your nose off to spite your face. You really are being pathetically ridiculous and have no doubt made your way to the top of the "oh, God, HER" list for the workmen.

Oh, and I have had depression for decades, have recently been diagnosed with anxiety, used to self-harm, and cope just fine with workmen doing their job. Anything else you can find to make an excuse for your invisible friend husband doing bugger all when he was off all day and you being totally shitty about people trying to do their job?

PS I don't have mould in the bathroom despite no heating and a bloody hot electric shower.

Be thankful if it's just the gasin the last 12 months our street has had the sewage pipes replaced that was good raw sewage being piped above ground on the pavement outside our house you could hear it going along the pipes as you stepped over it to take the children to school ! It also meant we couldn't access our driveways for at least two weeks so the whole road had to find alternative parking it was a nightmare but necessary work. Next a few months later the gas board came and replaced the pipes diving up out gardens/ pathways and leaving us with out gas for the day like yourself they didn't block the drive though so that was a bonus! Now we have the water board replaceing all the water pipes for the last month or so they dug up in front of the drive but plated it so we could still use it but the machines and lorries take up the whole road so they have been time you may be able to leave your drive but then have to sit waiting for them to finish what they are doing or to be able to move so you can actually get anywhere! It all very inconvenient but all necessary and will benefit us once it's all done my only thought is wouldn't it have been better if they have got together and done it all at once as with all the various holes out Road looks like a patch work quilt 😊

In 1999 a house in my town blew up killing the family of 4 in it 3 days before Christmas.

I'm sure no one would want that to happen to their families etc so would put up with the gas being off for however long to fix it.

Cant believe you turned the poor workmen away from the door at 8am when they were obviously working to a schedule, you possibly messed up their whole day and maybe even got them in trouble when they were just doing their job. Was it really necessary to make the poor guys probably go and sit in their van waiting for you just because you felt mildly inconvenienced and wanted to be difficult? Don't see any problem with getting the kids and myself bathed a little earlier than usual/the night before so the hot water wouldn't be an issue, and make meals that don't require a gas cooker for one day. You sound like the kind of person that nobody wants to encounter in their workplace!

Are you really Hyacinth Bucket?

My DP is an electrician, I showed him this thread, he said workmen are not interested in watching you cook and don't particularly want to be disrupting routines but they do have to do their job. He also told me of a customer who demanded he leave the power on when doing major electrical work, he left the power off the whole weekend for the way this customer was treating him. Other customers who have shown him respect he bends over backwards to make sure things are done as soon as possible.

But generally speaking, that should be managed by them having enough staff, not by them casually leaving people without heating overnight in December

How on earth do you think we grew up years ago? We had no heating in my childhood and I survived! Bloody hell we're a cosseted lot now. A house takes ages to cool down and one night is hardly a hardship. A house that's never had heating is cold but we survived as kids.

@Mimiandroo they didn't go sit in his van... they were drilling at the side of my house because that's the work needed doing before coming to my house.. as if they just went to their van.. read the thread instead of talking rubbish

@harrypotternerd your partner should have been reported then shouldn't be! How unprofessional leaving someone without essential electric just out of spite.. he must be very immature person. As a professional person as he was he shouldn't have done that... so what the customer was a but stressed over the issue... didn't give him the right to cut her electric off for a while weekend.. chavvy Behaviour

darkcloudlooming

So how are you going to cope today?
Have you actually planned to work around the small inconvenience?

What about DH, will he help out at all, as he didn't before?

DH is at work

And I'll just have to cope..it Won't be easy for me but it's life I suppose

This is what people in here don't understand that the impact it has on some people is different to how it affects themselves.

darkcloud you have electricity !!

Stick on a couple of fan heaters, boil a kettle for a hot drink, borrow an electric blanket and sit in bed... whatever...

You are really doing yourself no favours here.

But the essential work needed to be done and you and DH could have made it so much less stressful than you seemed to find it

OP, I’m so sorry you appear to have ignored my gentle post to you. I really would walk away right now from this thread as others have advised. The picture you are painting of your life is not pleasant from every angle. Please re-read my original post, if you can effect even some minor changes to your days you may cope far better with the daily strife we all endure at some point.

Did they not perhaps start doing the drilling first before they turned off your gas because you wouldn't let them in?

If you have mental health problems, speak to your GP. If it is just an inconvenience and annoyance, put up with it.

It’s inconvenient but they are probably thinking the same that it’s inconvenient they have to wait for an hour whilst your children eat breakfast.

Still no answer on where your dh was yesterday and why he wouldn't help you?

yes it’s inconvenient that’s why the council put up warning notices. It’s one day out of your life!! Take your kids out for a treat dinner.

We pay council tax so things like this can be don’t me. Wht would you prefer they do? Leave it so until the pipes break and your without gas for months??

My DP is an electrician, ............... He also told me of a customer who demanded he leave the power on when doing major electrical work, he left the power off the whole weekend for the way this customer was treating him

How unprofessional.

olivia every enquiry as to his whereabouts/part in this has been ignored. And now we know about OPs mental health issues his absence is even more irritating.
OP WHERE WAS YOUR DH IN ALL THIS?

I'm more sympathetic to OP now that other posters are saying their pipes were dug up with only 24 hours notice

And why should she be expected to share medical details with strangers?

OP - I think I'd walk away from this thread now. It's not helping you. Hopefully gas will all be restored by tomorrow, and you can put this behind you

But I hope you can find coping strategies that help you, as it's not great to be thrown by this kind of thing

yes, suck it up like a grown up !

@darkcloud you should be aware that he could have stayed overtime and finished it but the way she was treating him (expecting him to put his life in danger just so she could watch tv etc) he didn't do his overtime (that also came from his boss) so it was unsafe for him to leave the power on over the weekend. The way I worded it earlier proved my point about you....from your reply you expected him to put his life in danger by working with live electricity just so the customer could get what she wanted....see what I am saying here?

Honestly op, you're working yourself up into a right lava.

Accept this.

Tidy up,, go for a walk, get into bed with a good book.