Brendan’s Review Blog

Now the review summary reads like spam, so I apologise for that. I’m just really enthusiastic that the internet in general, and ebay in particular, was able to solve my plumbing problem (insert Carry On innuendo here).

My gas boiler has been giving trouble for many months now, and I was fearing that the whole bloody thing would have to be replaces (little change from 2k). I eventually found (from Google) that the problem was probably related to the Potterton’s infamous PCB (Printed Circuit Board) - the brain of the boiler, so to speak. If I wanted to get an Irish plumber to replace this faulty item, it’d cost me somewhere between 300 and 500 euro (and might not even solve the problem) so it was with great happiness that I found a vendor (sarumlady) on ebay who sells reconditioned PCBs for about 45 euro. The item description included instructions for how to replace the PCB (very <i>very</i> easy, though not strictly permitted) and I now have a house whose temperature actually corresponds to what’s on the thermostat.

Considering that to get over the problem, we had to jam up the thermostats to full, and regulate the temperature by switching the boiler on and off manually, I also expect to see savings on my gas bill.

I know a lot of people with the same boiler problem. If you are one, check out sarumlady.