Search results

There you go again extolling the virtues of non-condensing. WE ALL KNOW. MANY OF US PREFER NON-CONDENSING. The exemption is much more difficult to get than you've been lead to believe. It doesn't take account of nuisance to your neighbours (otherwise very few would be installed anywhere)...

Just because you and your installer prefer them does not make flats exempt. I too prefer non-condensing. April 2005 was the biggest kick in the teeth this trade ever had. That said the points system does not simply read 'do you live in a flat?'. Your installer actively breaks regulations, I...

What sort of advice do you want? You seem to have had slapdash work done at your premises by people who are entirely unconnected with anybody on this forum. From your description, it's anyone's guess what's gone wrong.

I do know exactly what they do, please try to allow that I've been in this game for 35 years. My point is that the OP seems to suggest his installer considers flats exempt in general, which shows he doesn't understand building regulations.

He doesn't know the regulations if he thinks they don't apply to flats. Your boiler is made for shared communal flue applications such as in U-duct or Se-duct buildings.

I could have sworn I opened my reply with the words 'you can shop around'.

I can think of at least 5 parts of a Suprima, affecting gas combustion, that need disturbing to remove the heat exchanger.

You can shop around but if you can't afford to have a gas cooker professionally installed then you should make do without one.

Before any 'HELP', your attention is drawn to the forum RULES about advice on DIY gas work.

I said parts and frequency of use (both, not either or)

Shouldn't need pump overrun with that model. It's a Potterton branded Baxi Solo HE which can work with SL, N & E.

You may have missed that this is planet Earth. I challenge you to name anything modern with half the working parts, working half as much as your boiler, that lasts over 17 years. Given your expectation, my advice to you is get some open fires or a stove and don't have central heating...

Perhaps you could comprehend that manufacturers aren't allowed to make them from cast iron any more. Nor can they use copper as yours is. If you get it repaired you won't need a new one.

In other words you'd like to know how to repair your own gas boiler.

Try learning to fix it yourself then it'll be free. Apart from the cost of courses. You'll also get to keep your tasty, though more likely she-devil look-a-like wife to yourself.

Then you argue wrong. For faulty goods, consumer protection under the Sale of Goods Act is with the seller, not the manufacturer. The guarantee is a separate contract between maker and consumer. Manufacturers need to abide by the length and terms they've offered therein. Issues that may...

Consumer law has nothing to do with manufacturer's warranty because the consumer doesn't buy anything from them.

Post makes no more sense this time round.

Indeed Agile, yet punters wouldn't expect to have their walls and ceilings skimmed for half the price of a bag of plaster.

You need an experienced oil boiler engineer (OFTEC or not doesn't matter). Most of these guys only service and repair and do not install or plumb anything. They are about in your area. It seems you may be employing chancers who charge cheap to get in then experiment at your expense. If you...