On 31 Jul 2003 08:26:09 GMT, (Andrew
Gabriel) wrote:

In article ,
Andy Hall writes:

AIUI, Eco-Hometec mainly sell to self builders, who tend, quite often,
to hand pick components for the house and/or are sensitive to
eco-issues and to people looking for something better than the run of
the mill.

I spoke to several manufacturers when I was choosing a boiler.
More than one said to me that whilst condensing boilers are around
10% of the home market, they are pretty well all DIY installations.
Got into a conversation with some gas fitters at a trade counter.
They all said they would try and talk someone out of fitting a
condensing boiler, but if someone really wanted it, they would fit
it but would not commission or service it -- that had to be arranged
with the manufacturer.

That's pretty pathetic, isn't it.

The only reasons I can see for that is if they are still hanging on
the old wives tales of the unreliability of early UK manufactured
products, or they don't know how to properly fit a condensate drain,
or if the set up procedure requires a flue gas analyser.

If it's the last of these, there is really no excuse, they ought to
have one anyway since they are only a couple of hundred quid.





..andy

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