Sellers not serviced boiler in 3 years?

jbainbridge

I think we may have drifted off topic a little!!

G_M

unclebulgaria wrote: »

Are you for real???Yup!
I'm a Gas Safe Registered engineer!! Don't tell a duck how to suck eggs!I apologise. You had not made it clear in your post that you were actually a duck.
A CO monitor is sold so that you don't have to service your boiler or gas appliance??? Really!?!?Not what I said. A CO monitor is sold (more accurately bought) so that the inhabitants don't get poisoned without warning by CO gas. Which was what you were warning about!
You are seriously deluded, you and anyone else, if you really believe what you just wrote!Your opinion. Not mine.
You will be telling everyone next that smoke detectors were designed to allow smokers to leave lit cigarettes on a carpet next or how about we leave the chip pan boiling away or how about we overload the plug sockets it wont hurt we have a smoke detector if it catches fire!!Hmmm. Now you're just being.... a duck!
Anyone can post rubbish on here, anyone is free to read and believe it. I am free to tell everyone that you and your ilk are a bunch of misguided fools who believe that by saving a few pounds on a gas appliance service you are doing yourself a service and saving money whilst gambling on your own and your familys safety, not to mention your neighbours if your faulty appliance affects them!Correct. You can say all that. It is true that "Anyone can post rubbish on here" . You can say what you like. So can I.
It is not clever or good budgetting (I assume thats the idea of this site?) to leave any serviceable appliance for as long as possible before paying out for maintenance! Matter of opinion.
Please please G_M, in your infinite wisdom, explain to the readers how you came to that piece of intelligent thinking??? I can add nothing to my previous post which explains my position perfectly.

I fit CO alarms to customers properties, it states in the instructions "the installation of this device should not be used as a substitute for proper installation, use and maintenance of fuel burning appliances...it does not prevent CO from occuring, nor can it solve an existing CO problem" it also states "this alarm will only indicate the presence of CO at the sensor, CO may be present in other areas" Good point. I urge readers here to position their CO detectors close to their boilers (the potential source of CO). Having done so, i doubt their bedroom will spontaneously produce CO gas (unless that's where their boiler is!)
WAKE UP!

As with so many threads on a public forum, posts may supplement advice in previous posts, may contracdict, may go off at tangents.

Readers have to make decisions for themselves.

Finally - if you read my post again, you'll realise I made no comment on whether boiler servicing should/shouldn't be undertaken, and gave no advice on the matter.

I was responding to the ongoing debate about servicing to which you had introduced the CO factor, by pointing out (do I have to repeat myself?) that a service or inspection does not guarantee that for the next 12 months the occupants will be safe. Whereas a detector will provide on-going protection.

unclebulgaria

Nope by saying that a detector is "far more important than service" you lead people to believe that servicing an appliance is secondary to fitting a monitor. It isn't!

G_M

Both are important.

But if I had (for whatever reason) to choose to have one and not the other, I'd take the CO detector every time.

unclebulgaria

well I'll agree to disagree.

G_M

unclebulgaria wrote: »

well I'll agree to disagree.

Whew! A far more civil way to disagree than you ealier post!

:T