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From those of you in the trade, how does a consumer find a competent heating engineer and how can you tell the difference between the competent and the not competent ? (Without waiting for then final outcome after the event).

Argile, yes I have. As per my last post I have so much more respect for a proper heating engineer than I have ever had before (and i'm now learning the difference). In life you live and learn about things. Being too green we placed too much faith in the re assurances of the builder that we had a...

Jamer, I agree that all we consumers want is something that works. I, like you I suspect, i never knew how complicated this stuff is. I have a new found respect for talented heating engineer and I'm sure the competent ones are upset with the poor standards offered by some. If your house is over...

Argile - ok turned it up to 75 and will turn it down to 10 kw tonight Thanks

From cold the house gets upto 18/19 in about an hour and then starts cycling. I set it to 25 c the other night as a test and from about 20 c it just takes ages to heat up from there, thermostat is asking for heat but the boiler is off for 5 minutes out of 6 so I see why it would take ages. By...

Thanks all, Benchmark had to be re done due to errors and I do have the certificate. when I press 'I' it says 5.30 although I've just re done it and it said 5.7 ? Do the heat calc's seem right ? I did an Internet search last night and some of the methods I found look more complicated...

To Sooey - many of the problems i've seen relate to also having a weather compensator (which i don't have). Not found anything about how to stop it. Petertheplumber / bi3cal - no error codes on the boiler or the programmer. I've not taken the thermostat of constant and just move it up and...

Hello, looking for some help. I have a Vaillant ecotec 428 fitted in september with a honeywell programmer and honeywell wireless thermostat. I have issues with the boiler cycling on and off all the time, it does it on the way upto reaching the wireless thermostat termperature and once...