i shall be sticking with oil. as i needed a new boiler it was just an option to see if it was going to be any better, as it turns out its going to be much much worse. due to a small garden my oil tank does take alot of room so it would be great to get rid of that in replacement for bottles but due to how fast you could get through and the inconvenience of calling so regular to get replacement bottles, i didnt know it would get through them so fast, when the colour guy said in the winter you would need a pair of bottles every 3 weeks, not really a strong selling point…
some one else did mention about colour customer services being poor, i couldn’t agree more from the brief conversations i have had with them, i first called monday to enquire about it, got told i need to speak to another department, put through to them and get the same thing, nothing to do with them, call so and so. so come today i finally got what i set out for, a price!
another issue i have is this, when i first looked at the house i didnt really know what to look for, checked everything out, check heating and hot water works, checked boiler looks ok with no apparent leaks etc and was presented with a oftec certificate to show its been fitted correctly and signed off. brought the house and had a guy service it, he took 3 hours and mentioned he did not like the install, was poor and was hard to get to (its under my stairs and about half the boiler it in show of the door opening, the other is behind the wall with around a foot gap between)
around 12 months later i get another plumber to service it who is an oftec inspector. he basically condemned it saying the installation was all wrong and pointed out a long list 0f faults to me which became obvious when pointed out to me. apparently it is in his power to contact oftec who could have it shut down but as he did an efficiency test and it operates ok and im not in any danger it went no further. i dont think this plumber is trying to rip me off, he did not pressure me into buying anything, just said he is not servicing it and putting his name on it.
it quite an old boiler, plumber mentioned its not a great make and parts can take a while to get hold of and are expensive. it has now developed a rather bad water leak after being run for an hour, had all covers off and all pipe work is dry so can only assume is leaking from deeper inside. i cant see the logic of spending money fixing it and moving it into a better location when i could have a new more economical boiler from a better manufacture.
so im stuck with a boiler which is incorrectly fitted but an oftec certificate saying it is? surely the person who signed it off didn’t do his job properly, do you think i would get anywhere if i contacted oftec?