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"Boiler Maintenance"
At HavMain we take pride in taking on the best apprentices and giving them the skills and experiences to prepare them for their future career. Academic performance and enthusiasm are crucial when applying, and we will only consider a candidate with at least 5 GCSE’s at grade C or above and we expect to see [...]
A Cornish gas contractor has been cleared of manslaughter but found guilty of breaching gas safety regulations following the death of a hotel guest in Newquay Great Western Hotel.
Mark Mingo replaced the central heating system for the hotel in 2005. He ordered a boiler flue attached to the hotels wall and told a colleague [...]
Our plumbers and gas engineers are faced with all sorts of problems with oil and gas boilers on a day to day basis and have to find the solutions quickly, efficiently and most of all cheaply! No mean feat! One of the more common problems is a central heating and hot water boiler losing pressure. [...]
Boiler Servicing – what it should involve
In Torquay just as anywhere else its likely at some point in time you’ve had that uneasy situation of watching a plumber waltz into your home tinker about on your boiler for 5 minutes and then leave with a substantial invoice.
What we [...]
Boiler servicing is crucially important if you want to avoid the risks from Carbon Monoxide poisoning. Leaving no smell and having no taste Carbon Monoxide is very dangerous and toxic. 30 people die each year from Carbon monoxide poisoning and this year we almost saw its most famous casualty [...]
The CIBSE reports that an average of one building every minute will need to be refurbished between now and 2050 to meet the national targets for carbon emissions reduction.
Reducing the UK’s carbon emissions to meet government targets of an 80% reduction by 2050 will require an enormous effort, including tackling the energy efficiency of [...]
New gas boiler installation Torbay? Now might be just the time to start thinking about it. Circumstances seem to be transpiring against anyone wanting to keep heating costs down at the moment.
Political instability in the Arab world traditionally leaves serious fall out when it comes to oil prices. Only yesterday Texaco on Newton road [...]
There has been possible outbreak of legionellosis, a lesser form of legionella disease, at the Playboy Mansion. It is currently being investigated by Los Angeles County health officials.
Around 170 people became sick after attending a fundraiser at the mansion and it is thought they possibly contracted from the disease from the mansion’s hot tubs [...]
Boiler maintenance contracts with national providers have recieved some low customer scores in the Which? customer satisfaction survey.
In the South West, Torquay, Paignton, Exeter, Plymouth, Taunton we have found that the best boiler maintenance contracts and boiler servicing sells itself through word of mouth. Without the need for costly advertising [...]
The news today that Charlotte Church and her family were exposed to Carbon Monoxide by way of an unserviced or faulty boiler comes as a timely reminder to all out there that boilers need to be serviced and maintained regularly. It was a carbon monoxide alarm which appears to have saved the day after she [...]
