Terrified of my boiler (furnace)

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This is a regular thing to those who know me. I hear pops, bangs and explosion. Smell electric fires too - horrible burning plastic.

These experiences utterly terrify me. Paralysing fear. I haven’t showered in like 18 months because I am terrified by water and electricity.

Anyway my boiler has been losing pressure. I have had problems with this boiler since it was installed. I have let my landlord know many, many times.

Today my landlord asked me to fill the heating loop with more water to increase the pressure. I reluctantly did this I ■■■■■■■ hate adjusting stuff trained pros should really do.

Anyway now I am convinced the whole thing is gonna explode. My bed is right next to it. The frequency of the scary sounds is off the charts as am über stressed.

Think I might run away

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Dude. That must be a bloody nightmare. Dont really know what to suggest - apart from trying to use a bit of logic and re-assuring yourself its not suddenly gonna blow up?

Cant your landlord just fit a new boiler? Or is he being tight?

Hope your not freezing your arse off mate - if your not using the boiler x

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Can you record the sounds and play them for your landlord. Tell them you can’t sleep with the noise. Ask them to have a professional look at it.

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Youve probably been obsessively thinking/worrying about it for the past couple years or more so youve got a pretty solid thought pattern you need to break.

Id suggest cbt. Or acceptance. Like start trying to convince yourself like “who gives a ■■■■ if it blows up, it doesnt matter” and youll find as the weeks and months go on it doesnt actually ever blow up.

Then you will feel more confident about it.

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Im betting hes a cheap arse and dont want to pay for the service, hence jimbob doing the water top up himself.

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@el_Jimbobbio , do you have any spare cash to get it looked at by a professional yourself?

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@el_Jimbobbio .

Dude. If its not sorted. PM me. I will ruddy well pay for it. Seriously x

Ive known you long enough. It would be a pleasure to know, its not doing your flaming head in mate anymore.

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Hey everybody. Thank you so so much for all your kind messages.

Thing is the sounds aren’t real. They are hallucinations but I am getting no respite from them on account of the boiler being defective.

The sounds haven’t gone up in real life since I topped up the boiler - just my experience of them.

When I hear pops and bangs, like capacitors blowing up I feel compelled to check every plug in the house just in case there are real.

I mean I can’t risk not doing

I bought digital fan noise generators which run 24/7. They help block out the noise. In addition I have headphones on 24/7.

I don’t know what to do to get help. I always appear calm when I relate these experiences to the pdoc but as soon as the appointment finishes things are bad again. Distribution of care here is very much on the ‘squeakiest hinge’ system and I never raise drama so I never get seen

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Maybe when your hearing them (the auditory hallucination) just record a video with your phone for a while. Then you can take a look

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Good idea. I used to do that when i thought people were shouting at the window. It does take some skills after a while, to differentiate between your voices and whats real. It can be done tho.

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Would anyone mind if we closed this thread? @HollyHobbie @Voithos @Ninjastar

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