First the boiler packs up. Then the rip-off begins.
Forty-one years on British boilers taught me one thing: most of what you're charged hundreds for, you can check — or sort — yourself in minutes. This book shows you exactly how, with the fair price beside every job.
Your bills are forecast to go up again on 1 January. Ofgem announces the new price cap by 25 November. Every week your heating runs wrong between now and then is money you'll never see again.
One dial under your boiler decides whether it fires on the coldest night. Most people have never looked at it.YES — SHOW ME HOW · £37
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If you own or rent a home in Britain, you'll recognise at least three of these.
01It's below freezing and the boiler won't fire.The first firm that picks up knows you'll pay whatever they ask.
02"I'm afraid it's condemned."The gas is capped in January — and the quote for a new boiler is on your kitchen table before breakfast.
03One room never warms up.They'll sell you a powerflush or a whole new system — for something that's often a valve turned the wrong way.
04The annual "service".You expected the standard fee. You got a list of "extras" and the line: "It won't see out another winter."
05The weekend call-out.Out-of-hours rates for a two-minute job you could have done with a radiator key.
06"Your boiler's just too old."A £15 part, sold to you as the reason for a £3,000 boiler.
The frozen condensate pipe: one of the commonest winter breakdowns in Britain — often a ten-minute job with warm water.
The truth after 41 years: most of what you're charged hundreds for, you can see — or sort — yourself. You just need an honest man to show you.
And none of it is in a leaflet. Because nobody makes money from a two-minute fix. A new boiler, on the other hand…
NO. II
Do the sums yourself.
A typical British household, per year — and how much of it you could keep.
Read your bill the way the supplier does — and the leak usually jumps off the page.
WITHOUT THE HANDBOOK · PER YEAR
Call-outs and repairs
£350
Cover plan and "extras"
£300
Heat wasted (wrong settings, air in the system)
£350
Electricity hogs nobody checks
£200
Overpriced parts and mark-ups
£150
TOTAL
£1,350 a year
WITH THE HANDBOOK · PER YEAR
Done yourself (bleeding, pressure, valves)
£20
Checked yourself instead of cover
£0
Set right, bled right
£60
Hogs found and switched off
£40
Fair prices, no mark-ups
£60
TOTAL
about £180 a year
Bottom line: depending on your home, up to £1,100 a year less — for a one-off £37.
Example calculation. What you actually save depends on your home, your boiler and how you use it.
That's the sum to hold the £37 against — not zero.
Combi, system or regular — and what each one needs.
Pressure: the right reading, topping up with the filling loop, and why it keeps dropping
The factory flow temperature that burns money — and the setting for an ordinary British home
Lockout: the right way to reset, and when to stop
The frozen condensate pipe — one of the commonest winter breakdowns in Britain, often sorted in ten minutes
The annual service: what must be done, what's usually skipped, and six questions to ask
PART 2 · RADIATORS & HEAT
Every room warm
The cold room is almost never the boiler.
Cold at the top, cold at the bottom: what each one means
Balancing radiators — the room that never warms up
The right number on every TRV, room by room
The right thermostat setting for over-60s, day and night
Foil, curtains, draughts: what works and what's a myth
PART 3 · BILLS & THE PRICE CAP
Where your money leaks
Read your bill like the supplier does.
Standing charge, unit rate, and the Direct Debit that overcharges you
Fixed or variable after the price cap announcement
What each appliance really costs per hour
The winter checklist of help that's yours by right: Winter Fuel Payment, Warm Home Discount, Cold Weather Payment, Priority Services Register
PART 4 · DAMP, MOULD & CONDENSATION
The British curse
Know which one you've got before anyone sells you anything.
Condensation, rising damp or penetrating damp: how to tell
The £3,000 "damp-proofing" that doesn't fix condensation
Dehumidifiers: which type, what it costs a day, where to put it
Black mould: clean it right and stop it coming back
PART 5 · PRICES & PEOPLE
What it should cost
And what to say when someone's in your hallway.
Fair British prices for every common job
The one question that unravels any quote
"It's condemned": what's true, what's a tactic, and your right to a second opinion
Boiler cover: when it pays, and when it's money down the drain
When you must call a Gas Safe registered engineer — straight away
PART 6 · POWER CUTS & THE BIG FREEZE
When the lights go out in January
Why your gas boiler stops when the power does — and what to do in the first hour.
What to do the moment the power comes back
Keeping one room warm safely — and the heaters that can kill you indoors
Frozen and burst pipes: the stopcock you should find tonight
The winter emergency box, item by item
Cold at the top? A radiator key, a tea towel and two minutes. The call-out man charges a hundred pounds for this.Before anyone sells you £3,000 of "damp-proofing", find out which damp you've actually got.
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NO. V
"But the videos are free."
True. And they'll stay free. In every video I show you one fix — one. What won't fit in a video is the order: where do you start when you're standing in front of your boiler and three things are wrong at once? Which number goes with your boiler, your radiators, your house? And what should it cost if you do get a man in?
A video shows you a fix. The handbook shows you your house — boiler, radiators, bills and damp, in the order they'll come at you, with the numbers beside every one. That's the difference between watching and sorted.
No made-up star ratings. Real comments from viewers, with names and dates, exactly as they appear under the videos.
The risk is mine, not yours.
30DAYS MONEY BACK
Have a look as soon as it arrives — the download comes straight after you order. Do one single fix. If the handbook does nothing for you — or you simply don't like it — send me an email within thirty days and you'll get your money back. No reason needed, no forms. You won't need a week to know: open the chapter for your boiler and you'll know in ten minutes.
NO. VII
Arthur Bramley, retired heating engineer, Leeds.
For forty-one years I knelt in front of British boilers — in Leeds terraces, Sheffield semis and farmhouses across the Dales. The last fourteen of those years I worked for one of the big national cover firms. I sat in the meetings where they talked about "average job value". I watched a fifteen-pound part become a three-thousand-pound quote.
I don't sell boilers. I don't sell cover plans. I'm giving you what I'd tell my own neighbour over the garden wall: what you can do yourself, what you leave to a Gas Safe engineer, and what to say when someone's standing in your hallway asking for thousands.
This book is the channel, put in order. Boiler, radiators, bills and damp — in the order they'll come at you, with every part named and the fair price beside it.
Don't pay for what you can do with your own two hands.
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NO. IX
From here, there are two roads.
Road 2: a warm house in January — and a bill you're not afraid to open.
ROAD 1
You close this page. The flow temperature stays where the factory left it. The radiator in the back bedroom stays cold. The first hard frost freezes the condensate pipe, someone rings the call-out man on a Sunday, and he writes down whatever price he likes. Nothing changes if nothing changes.
ROAD 2
You get the handbook. Tonight you walk round the house with a list. In four weeks there's a different number on your bill — and next time someone hands you a quote, you ask the one question that makes him go quiet. And if it does nothing for you: thirty days, money back.
If you can turn a key and read a dial, you can do every fix in this book. Large print, pictures, one step at a time. And where a job needs a professional, I say so plainly — and tell you what it should cost.
I rent. Is it worth it for me?
Yes. The bills chapter and the damp chapter alone are written for you — and you'll know exactly what your landlord has to fix, and what help you're entitled to.
Does it cover gas work?
No — and nobody honest would. In Britain, work on the gas side must be done by a Gas Safe registered engineer. This book covers everything you're allowed to do yourself, how to spot when you truly need an engineer, and what that should cost.
How do I get it, and what if I don't like it?
You get the PDF straight after you order, by email. If it's not for you, email within 30 days and you get every penny back — no reason needed.
Why does it cost anything if the videos are free?
The videos give you one fix each. The book gives you the whole house in the right order, with the numbers and fair prices beside every job — plus the price tables, the doorstep questions and the winter checklist.
£37 — is there really that much in it?
Over fifty fixes across six parts, plus three bonuses. It's that price because there's no paper, no publisher and no shop taking a cut — not because there's little in it. One avoided call-out pays for it several times over.
From the comments under my videos
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