Stupid pressurised heating systems

Michael Kilpatrick · 2014-01-24T18:05:38+00:00

I'm fed up with this junk. Boiler and heating system only four years old but it lost pressure twice today and I had to do the manual top-up on the boiler. The second time the pressure went to down completely to zero on the gauge. I can't see any leaks. Could be anywhere - under the floor, in the loft, who knows... It's a stupid bloody idea. When I had a new boiler fitted this last summer in my rental house, I insisted on having a gravity-fed boiler so that I wouldn't be forced to pressurise the system and modify any of the pipework at all beyond the fitting of the boiler. I really wish I'd done that at home. I'm sick of the stupidity of topping up a system by hand when we discovered the heating hasn't come on, but with absolutely no indication of where the system might be leaking. Stupid, all of it. I'm just surrounded by junk that doesn't work. Doesn't matter whether it's made in China, the UK, or elsewhere, and it doesn't matter whether it was worked on by local people, Polish people, people from who-knows-where - *everything* is just bloody shoddy and poorly designed Ovesn go wrong. Switch on the kettle breaks. Children's roller skates (Christmas present) break on only the third use. Relatively new plumbing just doesn't hold pressure...that's hardly the half of it...the list of useless, dysfunctional crap is just endless. Michael

Jan 24, 2014 22 Replies

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Capitol 12 years ago

Hard or soft water?

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Michael Kilpatrick 12 years ago

But the boiler protection I have appears to be handled by "Baxi Care" not Domestic and General, so in this case the service is contracted out to (presumably) competent people.

Michael

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Onetap 12 years ago

Quite likely. Domestic & General don't know the difference between competent and incompetent tradesmen and contract it out to the lowest bidder.

If you've get someone competent, you're lucky. Get their business card, keep it for future use and get shot of the pen-pusher salesmen of insurance policies.

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