Fantastic video. I could 100% relate to your elation at not having to drain the Boilermate. A total nightmare scenario. Cannot stand those Boilermates. Swapping one for a slimline unvented cylinder in mid September. If you have a spare couple hours, Chirag, you fancy popping up to Edinburgh and draining it down for us! 😄
I hated these things so much... so many boilermates in newbuilds I even recognise the house layout ! I hope you realize how lucky you got when the valves only leaked when turning - those are a nightmare to change.
I can understand direct thermal stores in flats without gas but Indirect in a house? I know maybe unvented discharge is an issue sometimes but there is always a better solution a than a boiler mate lol
Moved into a house with one of these. Two faults, and two different heating engineers asking me what it was (installed in over 600 new builds 10 years ago in my town… so surprised they’d not stumbled across them) and scratching their heads as to how to progress. Fault number three saw me scrap it.
From my limited knowledge on them, the pumps are the wrong ones as they should be non adjustable, also u wont get 240 necessary as the ntcs control pump speed
Good to see a conscientious person I go behind a lot of guys and cringe at what I see I quite often get why are you doing that no one else has ever had that off or taken that off make you worry
Why Gas people always drill through out wiring and after call electrician to say that every time they turn on new boiler via spur its tripping the MCB and this is wasn't a case when old boiler was in use 😜
@@cputilitysolutions OK in simple terms. It appears a hot water cylinder coupled with an NTC that communicated with the system boiler could achieve the same purpose than the Boiler Mate is. So what extra functionality is the Boiler Mate providing?
@@normanboyes4983 the boilermate works opposite to a normal cylinder where in a normal cylinder the stored water is for domestic use and the system water goes through the coil to heat it up. Whereas with a thermal store the stored water is the system water and requires it to be up to a certain temp before it can start circulating around the heating system. Regarding domestic hot water, it provides the benefit of the customer being able to get mains pressure hot water delivery as the external plate heats up the water in the same way as a plate hex would in a combi. It's also good for situations where you can't run a discharge like you would for an unvented as the thermal store doesn't require one. I still feel an unvented cylinder on hot water priority with a system boiler would be a better option overall if provisions allow
