A CORGI-registered installer, who is also a trusted acquaintance, was
installing a bottled gas supply for my cooker. I got chatting about
changing my oil-fired boiler to Calor as it is getting old and oil does
not seem likely to come down in price soon or ever. He said 'don't'.

His experience, and that of people he knows, is the new condensing
boilers have poor reliability. He thinks that the rushed and ill-
conceived rules resulted in poorly tested boilers. Apparently before
long all new oil boilers are also going to have to be condensers and
he thinks that problems could happen with them as well. He advised
me to install a new oil boiler before the new regs, if I thought I
might go down that route. He has given up boiler installations for
the time being, until the equipment improves.

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Peter Scott

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