Forcali is now one of the maker leaders in the United Kingdom for LPG water heaters. Ideal if you have a mobile home or log cabin with a water heater that needs replacing. Many earlier mobile homes were fitted with the Morco and Worcester water heaters. Now, most new mobiles homes come fitted with an LPG central heating boiler that supplies the heating as well as the hot water. [...]
How often should LPG regulators and pigtails be changed? This is a common question we as LPG installers get asked quite a lot. For those of you who do not know what a pigtail is, it’s the hose pipe that connects the gas bottle to the changeover valve. LPG pigtails have a date stamped on them, this will normally be when the pigtail was manufactured. All hoses and pigtails need to be[...]
What are the benefits of cooking with LPG otherwise known as liquid petroleum gas? Cooking with LPG is easier to control than electric hobs and ovens, as soon as you switch on, the heat is there, whereas with electric you have to wait for it to heat up. Quick and easy temperature control, you just need to adjust the temperature either high or low, you turn the dial and it is [...]
An Alternative To Oil If you live in an area where there is no mains gas connected to your property, The chances are you have an oil boiler to heat your home and an electric cooker to do your cooking on. But there is an alternative, LPG. So what is LPG? LPG stands for liquid petroleum gas, it’s just like natural gas but is stored in either tanks or cylinders within your property.[...]
Table of contentsHow do you find an LPG gas engineer to work on your boiler?The first place to look is the gas safe register, here you will find every registered gas engineer in the country.The register has a freephone number 0800 408 5500 that you can use.You should get details of 3 local registered companies who will be able to work on your appliances.When the LPG gas engineer arrives, ask [...]
The Gas Supply Table of contentsThe Gas SupplyThe main reason is the gas supply.When you try to explain this to the customer or gas user they say, it seems to be working fine to me.The gas supply to the boiler is very important,The answer, no it’s fine, what about the hot water? Answer it’s a little slow but it’s ok.On carrying out a boiler service,Whoever had installed the boiler had [...]
Table of contentsUpdate Your Central Heating BoilerEach card will have a photo of the engineer, this is located top left on the front of the card.If the engineer shows you a card out of date then, do not let them work on updating your central heating boiler, its illegal.Here will be listed all the appliances the engineer can work on and the type of gas.If the gas safe card does not have boilers [...]
Table of contentsAn Alternative To OilBut there is an alternative, LPG.So what is LPG?LPG is cleaner and greener than oil and much better for the environment.Oil is smelly and dirty, but with LPG all that disappears.There are three storage options to choose from.The first one is replacing your oil tank with a free-standinggas tank.The second option has the new storage tank buried underground,The [...]
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