Government-mandated 'green' heating units fail leaving thousands without heat

[Chris_]

Did your central heating break down in the big freeze? Here's why...

Five years ago, New Labour heralded them as the modern, clean and green way to heat your house. As a result, today there are already eight million ‘condensing boilers’ in homes across Britain. In fact, since 2005 it is illegal to fit any other kind.

However, the recent cold snap has revealed a major problem with them. Tens of thousands of people found themselves shivering as their shiny new boilers cut out without warning.

British Gas is understood to have had 60,000 call-outs in Yorkshire alone. And the cost to call out a plumber? It can be between £200 to £300 on a bank holiday. And don’t forget about VAT.

But this problem is just one of many that have plagued this boiler design since they became popular in the Nineties. Many plumbers consider them to be little more than a multi-billion-pound con-trick.

UK Daily Mail

Mommy Labour Knows Best.  How long until this idiocy catches on here leaving even more people without heat?

[Duke Nukum]

All. Bush's. Fault.

[true_blood]

 
Stupidity deserves to be laughed at.

[DefiantSix]

UK Daily Mail

Mommy Labour Knows Best.  How long until this idiocy catches on here leaving even more people without heat?

I seem to recall the Soviet Russians had the same problem: anything designed or mandated by a gub'mint bureaucrat inevitably went tits up the moment it was needed most.  Didn't matter what it was, either: could be a state owned apartment or any major component thereof, farm equipment, you name it, it was shit just looking for an opportunity to fall apart.