HELP! British Gas wants me to change my boiler. Should I? I’m getting a lot of calls, texts, emails etc these days asking me for advice about whether to change an old but working boiler. Here is good example. An…
Potterton Netaheat Profile – blocked air hose restrictor About a month ago (in June 2022) I drove down to Portsmouth to fix a Netaheat Profile which had stopped working. A straightforward repair or so it seemed both on the phone when…
Which IS the smallest combi boiler on the market? A short post to answer this question I get asked from time to time. As of today (23/7/22), the smallest combi boiler I’m aware of on the market is the Glow…
Heat pumps – what do they actually look like? What gets fitted inside my house? Why are there no proper pictures on the internet? Cutting to the chase, heat pumps are UGLY and BIG. This is why you find…
Heat pumps – eight important things they don’t tell you I’m imagining you’ve already worked out how heat pumps work, in that they use fridge technology to collect heat energy from outside, raise the temperature of the collected energy and use…
Do I know someone like me, near you? I’m afraid I probably don’t! Try Googling the boiler model name written on the front of your boiler along with your area. Finding a boiler engineer near you can be difficult. The…
Pulsacoil – how to use your “Boost” facility I get lots of calls saying “Help, I’m getting no hot water from my Pulsacoil!”. The first thing I ask is “Have you tried the “Boost” facility? Does it work?” I ask…
Suprima flue fans When a Potterton Suprima boiler fails, four times out of five it will be the PCB, or the printed circuit board. But of the remaining one-in-five breakdowns the flue fan will usually be the culprit, with the…
Boilers in lofts, the pros and cons… As with most things heating, I have firm opinions about boilers in lofts. I’ll nail my colours to the mast here immediately, I think they are a really BAD idea. It’s worse than…
