Typical from a "rip-you-off" cowboy heating engineer - guessing it's the divertor valve and suggesting you change the boiler - completely un-argued diagnosis with an outrageously expensive solution that has nothing whatsoever to do with the first guess.
Peccavi
January 2009
probably the diverter valve but i would replace the boiler
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