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Hello, I'm Mike Bryant, also known as "Mike the Boilerman". Welcome to my website. I have decades of experience as a general plumber and heating engineer, but these days I specialise in maintaining and repairing hot water and central heating systems. It's mostly boiler breakdowns people call me for, but I'll fix anything to do with hot water or central heating. If it doesn't work, I can fix it! Just to be clear, I don't do installation work. I'm a repair specialist. I don't fit new boilers, radiators, cookers, hobs, gas fires or new anything, I fix things that have been installed by others and have now stopped working. I'm qualified for, and happily deal with, almost all domestic gas, LPG, and warm air central heating systems. I'm also qualified to work on mobile home and boat installations. The only domestic heating appliances I don't work on are oil-fired appliances. (Although you'll find me listed as OFTEC qualified oil technician I haven't accumulated a good range of experience with oil boilers. Nor do I carry the stock and tools needed to provide a really good repair service, so I no longer offer oil boiler repairs.) This site is a collection of my comments on subjects I regularly get asked about, in no particular order. Perhaps you'll find them useful; perhaps not :-) just use the links on the left to see what I have to say on each subject. And finally, a quick bit of background about me. I live in Reading, Berkshire UK. I left technical college to become a mechanical engineer but I quickly became dissatisfied with the corporate environment and left to be a self-employed technician repairing boats. I gravitated into plumbing and joined the Institute of Plumbers (now the Chartered Institute of plumbing and Heating Engineering) in 1984. More recently I specialised in bathroom design and renovation. I made another change is 2001 when I re-registered with CORGI (now Gas Safe Register) in order to specialise in boiler fault-tracing and diagnosis. Fault-tracing and repairing the older, the more awkward and the unusual boilers which other technicians seem unwilling to deal with is virtually all I do these days! I'm happy to answer questions and queries about plumbing and heating by email (even if you are not a customer) There's no charge, but during busy periods there may be a delay, and during REALLY busy periods no answer at all. In addition, simple and well-framed questions usually get answered ahead of vague or complicated ones! Ask me at miketheboilerman@gmail.com Thanks for visiting. Mike Bryant
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