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Boiler reviews...

As a boiler repair technician I get to know many popular boilers models quite well. Most have specific strengths and weaknesses, and many have persistent 'known issues'. I've decided to write a page about each of the boilers I encounter regularly, focusing particularly on the 'known issues'. If your boiler has a fault, the chances are high that it's a common fault and my page on your boiler might give you a good indication as to what it might be. 

If you are considering changing your boiler, my pages will give you my opinion on whether the make and model of your current boiler is a classic well worth cherishing and keeping, or a complete turkey likely to be unreliable for ever more and well worth scrapping. Forewarned is forearmed ;-)

This is a new page and I've only written a few  reviews so far. I'll add more in the future as I finish them. Here's the first...!

Potterton Suprima

(Several of the pages in my 'Unusual Boilers' section on the left deal with specific boilers in a 'review-like' way too. I may integrate them with this section in due course.) 

 

 

 

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