corgiman said:
Blimey are there ANY reliable boilers these days??
Thankfully not.
How it went was, Government knowing that in 2007 there would be so many new plumbrs vans on the road, that the fit intelligent ones would need an edge to stay in business.
They got their friends from the industry round the table and all concluded the problem was two fold, but eminated from one source.
Problem one pilot light uses so little gas (30 a year?) that it doesn't register on our meters and we are losing revenue.
Problem two, boilers are now so reliable we're losing sales of new boilers.
So the government worried about the unemployment and balance of payments situation banned the reliable boilers and put in a special request that in future manufacturers built in obsolescence to these old boilers to get them off the patch. Most recently they have enlisted the help of corgi because the died in the wool old boiler fans have been replacing no longer available casing seals with Rothenberger rope seal. This is now an unsafe situation.
Soon eveyone will be buying a new boiler every 5 to 15 years.
Fortunately there are still a few reliable boilers like Buderus who have been making modern condensing boilers for 30 years in Holland where before we got into the market 80% of boilers were condensing. The original boilers from 30 years ago are still working away happily. They are marketed in the uk by BBT the group who own Worcester. Of course this import is a threat to the livelyhood of the Worcester group and they don't behave as though Buderus is a sister company, they would prefer Buderus go away. But what they do Buderus do so well, Bosch won't be selling them, after all they bought them while they already owned Worcester. I wander why?
