A MOTHER says her family were left without hot water and heating for 10 days earlier this month after their boiler broke. Rosie Porter said her family, including her two young children, were left without hot water for more than a week and even had to pay £70 to check into a hotel for a day to use the shower. Their ordeal started on Sunday, January, 31, when the family’s carbon dioxide alarms started to go off in the middle of the night and every time the boiler kicked in the alarm would go off again. Ms Porter, who lives in Bretforton with her two children, William 6, Ebony, 9 and partner Nigel, said: “I called Rooftop Housing Association who sent out their contractors Platform Property Care, who looked and said the boiler was leaking carbon dioxide, so they switched the boiler off straight away.”