Monday 17 October 2011

Condensing Boilers

Since 2005 it has been the law of the land that if you install a new gas boiler, it has to be a 'condensing' boiler. The reason the action was taken was to decrease the amount of CO2 in the atmosphere, an ideological and political concern, not to provide an extra driver for the boiler manufacturing and installation businesses. The boilers often use a pipe running outside to cool water before it returns to the boiler as part of the condensing.

This pipe unfortunately freezes during the winter months, when the temperature becomes freezing and the boiler shuts down. Now, I'm not sure if the companies responsible thought that, due to Global Warming (which after all was what their boilers were 'fighting') there wouldn't ever be cold weather again, or if they were just phenomenally stupid. The whole project was pushed through by Prescott (other ideas, knocking down perfectly good houses to allow developers to build new ones and setting up illegal 'regional governments'), so it is highly likely that it is the latter.

British Gas are leading the way to solve the problem though, by charging customers to resolve what in many cases, would be their own faulty installation. Something I think, under the Sale of Goods act would be classed as 'unfit for purpose' (makes you think of Prescott again, doesn't it?). Isn't it strange how flouting the law seems to come naturally to large companies these days, just as it does politicians. Could the two things possibly be connected?

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