I ripped out a Ravenheat that was 3 years old, 10 leaks on it and a blown PCB, fitted by Warmfront, Ravenheat not interested after 12 months as they "only do warranty work" was their comment, they are all as bad.
Just look at the s**** WB came out with a few years back to compete with the cheap end of the market.
No what you've discovered is Ravenheat are as bad as Ideal! Hardly a revelation! While your at it, add all the other junk to the list....Ferrolli, Sime etc....... and the WB marketing machine realised there was a market for a cheap piece of junk with a pretty WB case! again, no surprise.
So morale of the tale is, may as well be ripped off for a low price as for a higher price, there aint many customers around wanting to pay loads of money out for a posh boiler, I am not going to work for less money "again" as well as do and buy a FGA and course on top off all my old and new overheads dreamt up by some suit and tie ech week, and at my age I aint looking to be here forever, so the money has to come off somewhere so it's on the price of the boller, we allready get the "oh I can get it off the net for £ less" thrown at us enough, and with such as Travis Perkins stabbing us in the back with cheap electric showers in the guise of
Wickes ect, it all comes down to money, well I personally aint gonna bail out the economy, so I go for the best cheapest and longest warranty easiest to commision boiler, at this minute it's an Ideal Logic+ ,it's in my nature to do a good job, so pricing cheap and fling it in with no profit is a non starter, as I end up funding the job out of my own pocket, which isn't good business sense.
All this crap has sprung up from regs demanding more efficiency, so the public is reaping the problems brougth in by suits and ties, by the the time you add up the the smaller life span of a condenser, the condensate nuetraliser, the consate pump the Magna clean filter the broken motorsed valves the cleanser rust inhibitor, aluminium particulates in the air FGA's made and serviced, Vans running round delivering repairing blah bloody blah, this is fokin up the environemnt more than a standing pilot boiler we you could service in 20 minutes and fit a T/couple lasting 30 years or more, all we need is hot radiators and hot water, we dont need the boiler to fly a space shuttle mission, but thats how they have become, public gets what public deserves for being so bloody complacent, good old Brit complacency abundant with everything, we just roll over EVERYTIME.
