Recent content by grayt

Excellent, thanks for the useful info everyone.

Yes, it's pretty new I'd say. Thanks for the info and your opinion!

Hi, I have recently moved in. I have been getting Corgi guys in for quotes on installing a new high efficiency regular boiler as the old Myson Apollo Fanfair has decided to die after 16 years. Some say the existing 3 port valve in the airing cupboard where the immersion heater/cylinder is fine...

My boiler is shot - rain has been getting in the flue over the years. Moved in here in June. It's a new one for me, joy!

It is, but if it means I can get away with not moving my boiler, then I will. Yeah, that was the first thing I did before I also got guys in from looking on the Medway Fair Trader site, Corgi, W Bosch and the IPHE site. I have asked 2 local plumbing suppliers I know that have a good rep to...

No, they were not, sorry did I not make sense in the first post, thought I made that clear. Some won't fit anything other than what they prefer for whatever reasons. Yeah, I realise that, like I said about a deflector for a start. The guys are engineers, you would have thought they could sort...

Yeah, I know all this as you can gather that's the reason why I have posted. It's not what I'm being told though from some Corgi Reg'd Plumbers. What can you say about that? That they should have their registration revoked?

Yeah, you'd expect that a guy would offer you a couple of quotes depending on whether you need a new pipe or not before the job so you are aware of possible unforseen costs, and as you say, they should do the calculations before they go ahead and do anything, but the buggers don't do this. This...

Yes, I have checked it our for myself, and see that with a flue deflector kit it would make the distance between the flue and the boundary almost acceptable. We're talking 15mm over the regulation measurements. How fussy are Corgi? I really don't want to have my boiler moved somewhere else, yes...

Has anyone found that under the new regulations say if you're boiler flue where it is was fine before April 2005, but now isn't coz you have to have a replacement condenser boiler, and you need to have it moved coz it's not positioned within the new regulations, do you find that some Corgi...

I've read up on the pros and cons, still not sure what to do. I spoke to a worc. bosc. (can I use names?) installer re putting in a regular condenser boiler, like you say, not on the cheap, will do a flush and bring it all up to spec, put therms on the rads, and will give me a warranty, is also...

Yes, at the moment we have hot water, no heating, this is the advantage. Say if you went to buy a place and it had a new boiler, would you be happier with it being a combi or a regular?

Hi, Have just moved into a 2 bed semi with one bathroom. I need to get a new boiler, it's 16 years old and needs bringing up to date, but I'm wondering if it's best to just replace the old regular boiler with a condenser regular boiler, or to change the system to a combi system, and have a...

thanks guys, I did have someone come roud with a little knowledge and he seemed to think it was not the pump as he could hear it doing stuff when the thermostate was played with and i think I have tried most combinations of getting the boiler to kick in but it just doesnt want to know. It...

Dear all, Over the weekend the central heating decided to pack up. I still have hot water and I believe that I have an open system Central heating (open tank in the loft what a pipe going into the top of it). The system must be about 16 years old now and my partner and I are undecided...