"The Medway Handyman" wrote in message
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RubberBiker wrote:
Absolutely right! Contravenes the wiring regulations.

Make your complaints he

http://www.asa.org.uk/asa/how_to_com...mplaints_form/

Simple online form - I've just done it.

Oh go on then. I'll join you! Lets see if we can take down Gritish Bas.
It would serve the b*stards right, promoting a green image whilst
condemming perfectly serviceable boilers & over charging for vents.


--
Dave - The Medway Handyman
www.medwayhandyman.co.uk



My 86 yo mother has a Baxi back boiler in her living room, behind a gas
fire. She has both serviced by BG every year on contract, and neither has
ever given her any problem, or any cause for concern. Every year they try to
sell her a new system for a couple of grand, by telling her that they might
not be able to get parts soon. The room is supplied with fresh air via a
sliding vent above her patio doors. It is always left open, as some years
back on one of these service visits, a screw was put in to make sure that it
can't be closed. This year, they told her that this no longer "conforms to
regerlashuns, luv!" so arranged for someone to come along and put in the new
'approved' vent at floor level - mercifully for no charge.

It was duly done, and then inspected by some other officious erk, who said
it had been fixed wrongly or something, so sent the original crew back to
finish the job properly.

We went to see her a couple of weks later, and her living room was like an
ice box, despite her having her gas fire, which is the only heating in that
particular room, on full. We eventually tracked the reason down to the new
vent, which is out of sight, out of mind, behind a chair. It is such a
bloody great thing hacked through the wall, that gale-force winds of outside
freezing air now whistle through it straight into the room. So much for
saving the planet. She's a feisty old bird, and said that she was having
none of it, and promptly fetched a surplus cushion, which she jammed between
the vent and the back of the chair that's in front of it ! It's her
contention that if it has worked perfectly well for the last 20 odd years,
there's no reason it should be any different now, and if it is, well then,
san fairy ann.

So what has changed ? Why all the waste of effort to change something that
has always been adequate, and was presumably specced to supply the required
air back when the house was designed and built, and architects still knew
what they were doing ?

Arfa