On 03/10/12 09:26, Arfa Daily wrote:


shaft with a screwdy to get it started - and much to my surprise, it ran
straight off. Fair bit of gurgling initially, but it quietened down and
all the rads got hot. It's a 30 y.o. Ideal Mexico, probably due for
replacement but hey, while it's still working ...

I replaced my Ideal Mexico five years ago. I never turned it off over
the summer as getting the pilot lighted again tended to be troublesome.
After it was replaced with a Worcester-Bosch whiich had no pilot light I
realised how much that pilot light was costing me over the summer months.

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djc