Recent content by shuggy50

Seem to have hit a sensitive subject, but my conclusion, is you are all right, those of you who are one man operators, put across a good argument, regarding time and cost of quotes and travelling. Additionally those of you who regularly quote, have a conscience that believes in, "what would I...

Thanks for all your answers and I understand, the time wasted in providing written quotes. I like the refundable cost of quote (if proceed on job) option. In answer to eliteheat, on the breakdown of parts and labour, I would expect this, as you surely have an hourly rate, and experience would...

This is not a criticism of gas fitters or engineers, but in 3 prices for a new boiler, (they have all been verbal, with various re-routing pipes etc, and all sorts of terms I don't understand) NONE offered a written quote. Spending in excess of £2,000, I would expect a letter stating what they...

Heat exchanger buggered. Had an engineer around from original company, new boiler (condensing), jet flush and inhibitor £2,000 + vat BUT could be another £400 if the hot water cylinder goes when he jet flushes. Asked me some good questions, how long was I planning to own the house (10 yrs)...

can you tell me where you got the gaskets from, so I can phone gas engineers locally, as I appreciate you are some distance from me

namsag, theres people on here saying its a flamingo, but it says potterton on the plate (photo) Potterton still exist, is it flamingo or potterton, if I gave potterton the number under the model, would they tell me if they had parts for it ? Its leaking about 2 litres over-night, can I turn this...

soggy, I am 10 minutes from Queen Elizabeth bridge (dartford tunnel) , on A13 towards Southend, a town called Stanford le Hope. The job is yours if you want it, I expected this boiler and parts to be obsolete, so am relieved

TWgas is it just coincidence that the previous work, upset anything to do with the boiler, or are they unconnected. Should the plumber have drained down and flushed out sludge, prior to balancing ? bearing in mind, that he said "the water when he drained was black and very very dirty" He is...

TWgas Can you quote in non-plumbing language, havent a clue what you mean ? But thanks for your feedback

I stopped using it based on the smell, should I turn off the pilot light as well ? Is it a new boiler or can the heat exchanger be fixed ?

Water leak under my boiler, situated in porch, so left cover off overnight, leak is from seal between black cast iron bit and silver base (where pilot light window is). Heating came on this morning, with awful smell, smells like when you open radiator in car, that has overheated, with no water...

definately says potterton rs 40 on the aluminium plate, next to the pilot light push in button

Mrs phoned me to say leak on carpet under boiler, its leaking on the seal between black cast iron bit and silver part (below) where the pilot light window is. Only 2 weeks ago, had 2 small replacement rads, ( I supplied) system drained, balanced, (£440) so rads were working best in 5 years...

what a great site for tips, straight from the horses mouth and 100 times better than B&Q man