Boiler Condemned :(

ruffneck · 9 Jan 2012 at 14:03

So I've not long moved into a new house (November) and on Friday we had our first boiler service from British Gas. "Bad news" he says "its failed a leak test and I'm going to have to condemn it, I will need to cap off the gas supply."

So he proceeds to cap it off, he puts a big condemned sticker over it and hands me a fan heater pointing out its 'on the house' from British Gas..THANKSBRO

It failed on the the flue elbow? although currently its burning well there is a chance it could leak dangerous gasses into the house. The boiler is a Powermax 155 and from what I've been reading many people have the same issue.

I've had a second opinion from another gas safe engineer who is known to the family, he managed to guess why it had been condemned before I told him" :eek:

So its new boiler time! It looks like its going to be replaced with an Ideal Logic Plus 24, I've heard bad things about Ideals previous models but everyone seems to rate this particular boiler so fingers crossed. In the mean time; cold showers are not fun let me tell you.

ruffneck · 9 Jan 2012 at 14:16

I was looking at the Worcester Bosch 24i as well, but the 5years parts and labour guarantee on the logic plus swung it for me.

ruffneck · 9 Jan 2012 at 14:24

According to British gas and the other guy, no.

ruffneck · 9 Jan 2012 at 15:03

Robbie G said:
According to the guy trying to sell you a boiler and the other guy trying to sell you a boiler? Not saying they're definitely wrong, but how can a boiler be completely condemned just for a flue elbow?

Very true, but what else can I do? Two companies completely independent from each other say the same thing, granted both could sell me a new boiler. I can't spend too much time digging as my house is freezing!

ruffneck · 9 Jan 2012 at 15:07

The-Plethora said:
My boiler is condemed also due to the elbow in the flue. I fixed the issue by removing the red "condemed" sticker on the front

haha

ruffneck · 9 Jan 2012 at 15:10

naefeart said:
What was worse was because BG had condemned it, no other heating company would come and turn the gas back on, even after inspecting the repair.

I'm sure I would get the same treatment.

ruffneck · 9 Jan 2012 at 16:00

lookitsjonno said:
mate i've had soooo many problems with my powermax 155, aparently a family died from carbon monoxide poisioning a couple of years back from the same boiler

In october I had a Worcester Greenstar 30i installed for £2.2k, it's a lot of money but a small amount to pay when we have kids in the house

I did read that! I've had a quote of £1800, which doesn't sound too bad really.

ruffneck · 9 Jan 2012 at 16:09

a1ex2001 said:
Hardly a disaster, kids survived thousands of years without central heating, we've all become so soft these days it's laughable.

Cold showers in winter in a cold house suck. Bring on Thursday!

ruffneck · 10 Jan 2012 at 08:26

eXor said:
I'd rather die than take a cold shower.

I'd look for the nearest neighbour / friend / family to impose on.

Failing that, worst case scenario would be immersion heater + bucket + jug.

I dunno, I'm kind of getting used to them now, its a wake up call that's for sure.