First of all, thanks for visiting.

I'm Mike Bryant, also known as Mike the Boilerman. I've built this site specifically to help owners of Gledhill PulsaCoil thermal stores and/or their plumbers identify faults and fix them.

Gledhill PulsaCoil water heaters are 'thermal stores', which work in a significantly different way from ordinary hot water cylinders and water heaters. Different enough to to mystify many heating engineers when it comes to fixing them, it seems. Pulsacoils are not particularly difficult to understand but they look intimidating, and without background knowledge many heating engineers understandably struggle to diagnose faults and repair them efficiently.

 I've created this site with the three objectives.

1) To assist owners and repair engineers understand Gledhill PulsaCoils better and the the faults that sometimes occur. There are several versions of the PulsaCoil. Here are pages covering the four most common:

PulsaCoil
PulsaCoil III
PulsaCoil 2000
PulsaCoil A-Class

2) To promote my own PulsaCoil repair service. If you live within reasonable traveling distance of Reading, then please contact me. Click here for details.

3) To help owners of PulsaCoils too far away from me find a local competent PulsaCoil repair engineer. My advice is to phone Gledhill initially. Gledhill have their own fleet of engineers on the road who carry out repairs under the Gledhill warranty given with new appliances. Even when an appliance is 'out of warranty', Gledhill may send one of their service engineers to carry out a repair (on a chargeable basis) if the have a local one available. If they don't have an 'in-house' engineer available they they maintain lists of what they call "Out of Warranty Service Engineers". These are independent engineers who Gledhill recommend as being familiar with Gledhill products. I am a Gledhill Recommended Out of Warranty Service Engineer (as if you hadn't guessed). I'll drive anywhere but most of my work is in Berkshire, north Hampshire, south Oxfordshire, West Surrey and west London. If you are outside this area then by all means try me. Travelling costs will be high but it's your decision. Alternatively, call Gledhill on 01253 474401 for the number of your local Gledhill Out Of Warranty Engineers.

 If my pages of common PulsaCoil faults and their symptoms and remedies don't help, I'm happy to give email advice to anyone wanting it. Gledhill themselves also offer first class telephone technical support during normal office hours. The number again is 01253 474401.

For my sites covering repairs to other Gledhill heaters and boilers see www.gledhill-repairs.co.uk 

Once again, thanks for visiting.

Mike Bryant, AKA Mike the Boilerman. 
www.miketheboilerman.com

First published 02/01/07
last updated 04/06/08