You will know it by these four things
- It stands on the floor, it is not hung on the wall
- It is boxed into a kitchen, utility or airing cupboard
- It is badged Baxi, Potterton or Range Powermax
- Your home was built or fitted out in the 1990s or early 2000s
- If that is the boiler in your cupboard, read the next bit carefully.
The gas safety regulator issued an alert about this boiler
“Under fault conditions increased levels of carbon monoxide can be created and escape from the flue/condensate connector component.”
Four things go wrong. Together they kill.
Carbon monoxide has no colour, no smell and no taste. Your body gives you no warning. Here is exactly how a Powermax lets it into your home.
The gas valve drifts
The valve settings wander out of tune as the unit ages. Adjusted without a flue gas analyser, a Powermax can produce carbon monoxide in vast quantities.
The burner gasket leaks
The manufacturer says it must be replaced every single time the burner is removed. Genuine gaskets are now almost impossible to get, so units are put back together without one, and combustion gases escape into the room.
The flue corrodes from the inside
Acidic condensate eats through the aluminium twin-tube flue until it goes porous. Then it leaks.
And the flue is hidden
It runs through ceilings, walls and boxed-in voids. So when it leaks, it leaks straight into your living space, with nothing to see and nothing to smell.
This is why most engineers will not touch one
The parts are gone. The thermal store, the valves, the gaskets and the flue components are obsolete. There may simply be nothing left to repair it with.
It cannot be safely tuned. The flue test point sits outside, so one engineer cannot read the combustion while adjusting the valve inside.
An alarm is not a fix. A carbon monoxide alarm screams once the gas is already in the room. Fit one today, but it does nothing about a leaking flue.
There is only one way to make it safe. Take it out.
Three steps, and it is out of your house
Message Lloyd
One tap on WhatsApp. Thirty seconds. Tell him you have a Powermax.
He checks it
Gas Safe registered. He tells you straight whether yours is safe, and gives you one fixed price.
It is gone
Old unit, hidden flue and thermal store out. Modern combi in, new flue to today’s standards. From £1,900 fitted, finance available.
No call centre. You talk to Lloyd. Fixed price before any work starts.
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