On 2007-10-26 23:05:14 +0100, "ARWadsworth"
said:


"The Medway Handyman" wrote in
message o.uk...
ARWadsworth wrote:
I might have gone mad (not my problem) but at about 6.35pm I am sure
I heard a phone caller on the Chris Evans show say that you can save
30% on heating bills by removing the air from a CH system. The caller
then advertised his co and gave a web site for his special equipment.

My girlfriends 4 year old son was shouting as I unloaded the shopping
so I did not catch the web site.

Did anyone else hear this?

Go to the Beeb website, you can 'listen again' to most shows.

Tried that and failed. It looks like "listen again" only starts when
the program that is being broadcast ends.

Tried again later with a result. The web site I heard mentioned was

http://www.tagonatadpole.com/

Now look at a way to waste your money. The phone in guy says it will
save £200 a year.

Adam

They're having a laugh.

The thing costs £195 and is just an air separator.

Clearly the manufacturer, Stan Whetstone, (what an apt name) thinks
that people are more gullible in the north, since he has only one
dealer south of Derby.

I'm also a bit worried about Mr Tony Goodyear,a Heating Engineer (no
less) from Nottingham who thought that fitting a new condensing boiler
would cure problems with a pump.

Then we have Mr Chris Horton, another heating engineer (from Hartlepool
this time - not sure where that is, but I don't think I've ever been
there) who fitted one to a system that needed to be bled every 3 - 4
days. Well now. I wonder why that was. Could it be that there was
substantial catalytic action or just plain and simple sucking down?
Fitting an air separator would do wonders for both and make sure that
there is a plentiful supply of fresh air going through the system to
eat away at the steel of those radiators.

The scary thing is that these are probably real people with customers.