In the past we had a gas boiler that provided central heating and hot water fault free for over 20 years with minimal maintenance and no replacement parts apart from one pump.
Then we changed to a Governement approved Eco friendly job that had the maintenance men out two or three times a year with sensors,boards and air switch gizmo's playing up. A friend of my wife had to move out of her home for Christmas and New Year as the two year old all singing and dancing Eco Friendly Boiler popped its clogs yet again and after numerous visits from the experts and a variety of spare parts they still have not got it working!
The boiler in our present home came out in sympathy yesterday, Schumacher masquerading as the gas service engineer launched into our driveway and screamed to a halt on the gravel. Swift cuppa followed by ooh-ing and ah-ing he closed his case leaving it on the side explaining that he needed a part and headed towards Winchester leaving tracks in the drive. An hour or so later he launched his van back into the driveway again after hitting the drainage grid at some speed. Well he had the part but it was not the updated one, "Whoops". He will "be back" and we have the Aga on and a log fire and two Calor heaters keeping my aches and pains warm.
The boiler was fitted at the same time as a near neighbours and is the same model, and that one broke down 3 weeks ago and six months ago the same as ours. The boilers seem to average 2 call outs a year plus the servicing as do other peoples new Eco boilers that we know of.
We have a merry go round of waste collectors with the Schumacher genes collecting different types of waste on time targets, so they make like they are leaving the F1 grid at every stop the same as at our old home, and we are told by a council contact that drivers get paid a premium rate for "working on" and taking the waste to its destination so the council meets government targets ;-(
We have nearby,new industrial units with "green" eco friendly insulated buldings and offices that had to have Aircon fitted as the replacement buidings have few opening windows. In the past the council waste truck picked up the business waste in big round bins, now they have 9 different trucks collecting waste each week and the heated warehouses doors are left open due to the frequent coming and goings of waste collectors and heating and aircon engineers and the people with mineral water bottles and smelly bits and bobs for the bogs and laundered mats for the entrances, plus nearly forgot the people who do the office plants and the lady that tops up the on site Choccy bar and Bisuit sales tray and the Coca cola type vending machines in two units and then different vans that call to do the coffee and tea type services. And there are also the service engineers for those oh so clever scanner coppiers that
need a regular monthly call out or they get withdrawal symptoms.
My wifes friend who lives nearby then has to put up with two horns and a claxon type affair from three chuck wagons that call as workers no longer prepare a sarnie for lunch at home.
Our ten + year old dishwasher is still going in our old home we guess but our new Eco friendly one has had two call outs due to its "boards and computer brains", our 9 year old Zanussi washer is still going fault free yet my mothers 18 month old washing machine had a pre christmas call out for the present
of a "new Board", its fourth new part!
My gas chap said he may have his new van when he gets back with the part, the "old one" is less than a year old and and has over 50 thou on the clock and is on its sixth set of front tyres!
I've read some of the back post here about various GREEN posts and taunts.
The world I've seen around here in the past weeek or two is a GREEN JOKE, anyone that dares to ***** about what we drive can go suck on the exhausts of a legion of Eco Friendly Goods service vans exhausts and taste the smell of the burnt tyre treads of the armada of Green waste pickup vehicles to.
As a plus. Before you go and buy your Solar Panels to join the Eco warriors and sell your excess power back to the national grid, remember that there is a control board with chips on it controling the set-up.
Will it last any longer and be more reliable than that of the washer or boiler?
A little bird tells us that you may just need another service engineer in a van a little more often that you think and the systems "may" not be quite up to what you think or last as long as you hope ;-)
Then we changed to a Governement approved Eco friendly job that had the maintenance men out two or three times a year with sensors,boards and air switch gizmo's playing up. A friend of my wife had to move out of her home for Christmas and New Year as the two year old all singing and dancing Eco Friendly Boiler popped its clogs yet again and after numerous visits from the experts and a variety of spare parts they still have not got it working!
The boiler in our present home came out in sympathy yesterday, Schumacher masquerading as the gas service engineer launched into our driveway and screamed to a halt on the gravel. Swift cuppa followed by ooh-ing and ah-ing he closed his case leaving it on the side explaining that he needed a part and headed towards Winchester leaving tracks in the drive. An hour or so later he launched his van back into the driveway again after hitting the drainage grid at some speed. Well he had the part but it was not the updated one, "Whoops". He will "be back" and we have the Aga on and a log fire and two Calor heaters keeping my aches and pains warm.
The boiler was fitted at the same time as a near neighbours and is the same model, and that one broke down 3 weeks ago and six months ago the same as ours. The boilers seem to average 2 call outs a year plus the servicing as do other peoples new Eco boilers that we know of.
We have a merry go round of waste collectors with the Schumacher genes collecting different types of waste on time targets, so they make like they are leaving the F1 grid at every stop the same as at our old home, and we are told by a council contact that drivers get paid a premium rate for "working on" and taking the waste to its destination so the council meets government targets ;-(
We have nearby,new industrial units with "green" eco friendly insulated buldings and offices that had to have Aircon fitted as the replacement buidings have few opening windows. In the past the council waste truck picked up the business waste in big round bins, now they have 9 different trucks collecting waste each week and the heated warehouses doors are left open due to the frequent coming and goings of waste collectors and heating and aircon engineers and the people with mineral water bottles and smelly bits and bobs for the bogs and laundered mats for the entrances, plus nearly forgot the people who do the office plants and the lady that tops up the on site Choccy bar and Bisuit sales tray and the Coca cola type vending machines in two units and then different vans that call to do the coffee and tea type services. And there are also the service engineers for those oh so clever scanner coppiers that
need a regular monthly call out or they get withdrawal symptoms.
My wifes friend who lives nearby then has to put up with two horns and a claxon type affair from three chuck wagons that call as workers no longer prepare a sarnie for lunch at home.
Our ten + year old dishwasher is still going in our old home we guess but our new Eco friendly one has had two call outs due to its "boards and computer brains", our 9 year old Zanussi washer is still going fault free yet my mothers 18 month old washing machine had a pre christmas call out for the present
of a "new Board", its fourth new part!
My gas chap said he may have his new van when he gets back with the part, the "old one" is less than a year old and and has over 50 thou on the clock and is on its sixth set of front tyres!
I've read some of the back post here about various GREEN posts and taunts.
The world I've seen around here in the past weeek or two is a GREEN JOKE, anyone that dares to ***** about what we drive can go suck on the exhausts of a legion of Eco Friendly Goods service vans exhausts and taste the smell of the burnt tyre treads of the armada of Green waste pickup vehicles to.
As a plus. Before you go and buy your Solar Panels to join the Eco warriors and sell your excess power back to the national grid, remember that there is a control board with chips on it controling the set-up.
Will it last any longer and be more reliable than that of the washer or boiler?
A little bird tells us that you may just need another service engineer in a van a little more often that you think and the systems "may" not be quite up to what you think or last as long as you hope ;-)
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