written by johnfjmalone on 19/01/2018
I bought one and had it installed in 2014. It has never worked right. The pressure kept dropping, and after numerous different plumbers one eventually found a pipe to the expansion vessel that was clogged with black sludge. This is despite having a built in filter. I paid to have a top of the range magnetic filter fitted.
Again the pressure drops and I will have to have the pipe with the tiny bore checked again. Nothing is leaking anywhere, it's all been checked.
It is not economic, it uses two 47kg propane's in a month. It takes stars to warm up. If the weather's really cold it doesn't heat the water really hot.
One last very disturbing fault is it ignites like a shotgun sometimes, and outside you really do frighten yourself when it goes off. I have had the registered gas Safe plumber check this out and he didn't find any cause, and it didn't do it whilst he was here.