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Ray Stafford

Hi All

Your favourite sponsor has FIVE (count them, one, two, three, four, FIVE) Intergas boilers to give away. Each one is worth a thousand (inc VAT) of your Great British Pounds.

Absolutely free. No charge. Not a penny. We will even throw in a jig, flue kit and delivery. Your bank balance will not be depleted by so much as a brass farthing.

Before I go any further, I should express my inestimable thanks to Mr Steve Zouch, Mr Jim Boyce and Mr Andy Burton of Intergas for their spectacular generosity in providing these boilers, and for their bottle in putting their product in front of all of you for honest review.

The boiler in question is the top-of-the-range 30kw Combi Compact ECO-RF. This is not the boiler that most Intergas users will be aware of (the HRE is the well known one). The ECO-RF range is a souped-up version and has all the features one expects of Intergas - easy maintenance, separate expansion, just 4 moving parts, legendary heat-ex, hot water available even when the pump fails, along with:
  • Built in Honeywell RF programmable stat
  • 10 year warranty* (so long as you attend the manufacturers training course)

If you will forgive me for lapsing into the vernacular, this is the mutts nuts.

To qualify for this freebie, you must be:

  • a Gas Safe Registered engineer.
  • the main decision maker in your business.
  • An Intergas virgin. So you must not ever have fitted an Intergas boiler, or been on one of their courses.

By submitting your application for a freebie, you agree to the following conditions:
  • You will attend an Intergas training course (approx 4 hours) at one of their 21 training centres around the country before you receive your free boiler.
  • You (and your customer if necessary) will co-operate with the Intergas marketing team if requested for photos and/or interviews
  • You agree to write an honest review on this forum of your experience with the training course and the boiler. The review does not have to be positive, but any criticisms should be constructive


Here's how this will work.

Starting this weekend, once a week for 4 weeks, I will post a question on this thread, along with an invitation to contact me via PM. The question will relate to some technical aspect of the boiler, so you might like to have a browse round their website to get ahead.

On each occasion, the first 7 qualifying people to contact me with the correct answer and their contact details, will go into the pot for a free boiler. By a process which is entirely private to me and Intergas, and against which there is no appeal, the winner of the freebie will be selected. Over the course of the week, we will reveal the name of one loser per day, eventually unmasking that weeks winner. We will then start the process again for the next week.

Winners cannot re-enter, but if you are one of the unlucky 6 who are rejected during the week, there is nothing to stop you having another go next week.

Winners of the Vogue freebie which we ran last year are specifically excluded, just to spread the love around. :)

But that's FOUR weeks and there are FIVE boilers!

Don't worry. One of the winners has already been selected. The first person (apart from the individual concerned) who can tell me who it is, and why, will receive a bottle of champage from me personally to celebrate their percipicacity.

So watch this thread with care- and await the first of the killer questions!

And thanks again to Steve Zouch and the team at Intergas for being such open-handed good sports.



*from July 1st 2015
 
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Right, here we go then.

Who's sorry bum should get kicked out?

Who do we have left?

CH4, Chalked, Hammers and Solutions.

Hmmmm.

Would you like a clue?
 
Tut tut ray surely a chat and a drink first
 
Although I am making this sound like a date so maybe as you were
 
Good luck guys, only four left.

This is where it gets interesting.
 
Factoid of the day.

Solutions real first name ends with an "m"

Hammers real first name ends with an "m"

Of the two finalists, only one of their first names ends with an "m"

I wonder if either of the other two have names ending in "m". Actually, I don't wonder, because I know.

Heh heh
 
Now, before we get all excited about kicking people out, lets reflect on the 10 year warranty enjoyed by the Intergas ECO-RF range from 1st July.

Obviously there are terms and conditions, and I think we all wonder exactly what percent of boilers get serviced annually every year for the first 10 years of life (apart from social housing).

So - is there a huge advantage to having 10 years instead of the 7 years enjoyed by the more common HRE range?

And how do you guys feel about being required to go on a course to access those bigger warranties? Does that work for you?
 
Good evening Ray, what have I missed?

Well, I left a really subtle clue about Anz being knocked out, but everyone missed it. <sigh>

And its clear that the final will be between someone, and someone else!
 
Well I have to admit that sometimes you can be too subtle my friend, for example going back 2yrs to select somebody and ask who and why that somebody should be selected was a touch too much. lol
 
Well I have to admit that sometimes you can be too subtle my friend, for example going back 2yrs to select somebody and ask who and why that somebody should be selected was a touch too much. lol

Maybe so. Was it really two years? I would have guessed 12 months, maybe 18 months tops.

Perhaps because it stuck in my mind as an example of gentlemanly conduct, I expected it to stick in others' minds also. Mea Culpa!
 
Maybe so but you had time and cunning on your side to plan whilst the boys were eager for a freebie so I guess any deep thinking or trying to second guess you was expecting too much.
How long did you have to plan out of interest?
 
Anything happened????

To answer your question about the 7/10 year warrantee. I hate them. They are good for selling boilers, but not good for the installer when after 9 years and 6 months, the customer rings up and says the boiler has stopped working and it's under guarantee. ( but has never been serviced since new) who do they call? Ghostbusters? No the installer.
 
Chalked that's tuff cheese for the customer. I got a email earlier that intergas will now be emailing and sending out reminders with your price of the service which means it's good for you.
 
I often wonder if long warranties will actually be honoured by the manufacturers at the later stages of the boilers lifespan.I also would say probably only half of customers get the boiler serviced yearly to continue with the warranty . The other half ask for a service after five years when an issue arises expecting you to back date it.
 
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