House Heating Troubles

Moving home is never a smooth process. Somehow you always have to end up liaising with about fifty people who can never help you and always need to refer you to another person. Then there’s all these hidden gems that require maintenance that you somehow never discover until it’s time to move in. I swear the real estate companies have some sort of deal going with maintenance companies. They destroy the utilities, then take a cut of the maintenance repair fees. That’s how all these real estate agents manage to afford their swanky suits no doubt! Ok, back to reality – I’m sure that doesn’t happen but I do love a conspiracy. 

It’s the middle of winter and we’ve spent one night in our place. Sadly we are nowhere near having all our furniture moved in. This is the fault of the moving company we are working with. They made a mistake on our van hire so we can’t move most of our possessions until two days from now. Due to their error, we had to spend our first night on mattresses. To top it off, we desperately require a gas heating repair. Canberra is an unfamiliar place to us, so we don’t have any connections with local repair or maintenance companies. We always want somebody trustworthy to do the job to ensure that we can rely on them should anything go wrong in the future. My husband says he’ll do a thorough research of various local heating and air conditioning repairs companies based in Canberra. I’ve always been very intuitive so when I saw the gas heater was broken, something in me knew to check the air conditioning. Lo and behold it too was broken. I can’t see us needing our air conditioning any time soon as the weather is still very brisk, but I’d much rather have it already in working order for when we need it. 

The repair person came to visit us the next day after we called. He mentioned that he quite frequently sees new tenants often struggling with their utilities. At least it’s not just us.